Ice Caps

Global warming is becoming more and more of an issue and the consequences are scary.  It may not affect our lifetime but it may affect our childrens or grandchildrens life.  It’s a scary  thought to think about the world possibly becoming all water and the land being covered by water like some scientists say will happen.  I’m not sure whether I believe if that will truly happen.  I’m not sure if that could happen.  But just the thought about being “burned up” like some other scientists say will happen.  It’s definitely a scary thought and I am hoping that it will not happen. This is a picture of melting ice caps. 

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Ice Cap Melting

On the New York Times website a scientist came up with a visual model of how much the ice caps have melted since 2003. It’s incredible to see how much they have melted but I am also not sure if it can be entirely correct.  I think it’s a difficult thing to measure the amount of ice caps melting.  I think it’s a daily process so it’s hard to say what happened each year.  Indeed the ice caps are melting but I’m not sure what can be concluded from the ice caps as to who or what the main cause is.  Hopefully we can find a way to help keep the ice caps from melting or melting at such a fast rate.

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IPCC says we need to act

Climate change is “severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action” can head it off, a United Nations scientific panel said in a report on global warming issued Saturday.

The IPCC has said that we need to take immediate action on global warming.  Whatever the steps may be, they insist some action needs to be taken.  They discussed that the United States is one of the only nations that has not signed the Kyoto treaty thats purpose is to serve as a promise that each country will work on lowering the carbon emissions and help take a stand to global warming. IPCC warns us that we need to act soon because we may  be experiencing extinction and possibly devastation effects on other countries.  Making a mandatory cap on the amount of emissions let off may be a suggestion to lower emissions.  We need to act and we need to start soon.  The IPCC’s conclusions are that we are increasing temperatures at an extremely fast rate and we need to do something or we will be facing many consequences.

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What information is Real?

Scientists and bloggers are fighting over what statistics are real and which are fake.  It’s hard to say who’s experiments are correct and whose are not.  At http://www.nationalcenter.org/2007/11/fake-global-warming-study-fools-four.html  it discusses an article that was published and then attacked by skeptics.  People aren’t sure what to believe anymore. I know I don’t.  It’s hard to assume that all the information out there about global warming is correct.  Some people are making up information about global warming to prove thier points but in reality it is just hurting the global warming study.

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I found this comic at http://healthandenergy.com/global_warming_cartoons.htm.

To me this just makes me think that we’ve always known that global warming was an issue but we’re just trying to come up with excuses not to do anything about it.  Instead of fighting about who is the cause of global warming, maybe trying to fix it or slow down the process would be worth the money instead. 

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October Data

I’m still amazed that some people can deny the fact that global warming is happening.  We have so much information and proof that shows us that temperatures are increasing.  This graph shows us that temperatures are increasing.  This graph came from AccuWeathers web site.  This past October was the 9th hottest October on record and that the average was 2.1 degrees Farenheit above normal.  All around the world people are discussing the increasing temperatures and the main cuases.  The world is warming and there should be no debate about that.  There is no data that said the world is staying at the same temperature or decreasing.  We need to start really taking good data to find the true causes of global warming.

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Is Global Warming Caused by Humans?

I have not yet decided for myself whether or not I think Global Warming is caused by humans.  I have read and reviewed so much data in the last month or so and I still feel as if I don’t know enough.  I would love to believe all the statistcs I read, but I can’t.  There are so many statistics that contradict the other.  Scientists and experiments would be fixed is some places and so believing what you hear and see doesn’t mean it’s always right.  I do believe that global warming is a real issue that definitely could cause potential harm to our Earth, but I believe it is due to many different causes.  I believe that global warming is mostly a naturally occuring process that has been occuring for many centuries and will continue until the end of the Earth.  But I do think it is increasing at a faster rate because of human impacts.  I definitely think that we, as humans, have had some substantial influence on heating the Earth.  I think whether or not we are the main cause, we should start to fight back.  Start looking at ways to lower the CO2 emisions and the burning of fossil fuels.  Doing this would never hurt.  I don’t think we should wait until we are in immediate danger to do something about it.  We should start now and hope for the best of outcomes!

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North American Carbon Imbalance

“A new report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program has determined that there is now a greater than three-to-one imbalance between the fossil fuel sources and the ability of vegetation to absorb carbon over North America, and that fossil fuel emissions for North America are greater than 25% of global emissions.”  According to this article, if we continue cutting down more and more of the forrests we will continue to increase the ratio of fossil fuels in the air to the ability of vegetation to absord them.   Whether i’m not sure if this statistic is correct, I do agree that cutting down more and more forrest areas will continue to hurt this world in more ways than one.

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CO2

How much CO₂ really is in the air and how much is actually going up into the atmosphere?  Right now, the ocean is taking up 2/7 of our carbon emissions and is helping regulate the amount that is being released but scientists worry that the ocean may possibly not be able to take in as much if the temperature of the ocean continues to increase.  Our atmosphere and world are trying to regulate the temperatures but may no longer be able to keep the temperatures steady.  We need to continue researching about global warming and see what can be done to lower the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere.

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Global Warming

This article talks about global warming in general.  It discusses that global warming it increasing the chance of natural disasters. 

“Earlier this year, the IPCC published its final report on the likely extent of global warming. It concluded that average global temperatures could rise by as much as 6.4C by the end of the century if carbon emissions continue to increase. A rise of 4C was most likely, the panel said.” 

It’s a scary thought because we still do not know what the main cause of global warming is and will probably not know until more time passes and more experiments and studies are done. One effect that is almost always discussed by the ICPP and other people is that Global Warming is soon going to cause extinction in some plants and animals, droughts in some places, and floods in others.  I believe time is only going to teach us enough about global warming.

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