Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Climate Change is no Hoax

The gulf stream is slowing, the arctic is thawing, methane is being released in enormous quantities from the permafrost which is thawing in Siberia and now Alaska and the northern reaches of Canada Methane is twenty times more powerful as CO2. Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica is losing sixteen meters per year in depth. Several years ago a chunk of Antarctica the size of the state of Rhode Island broke away. CO2 is at the highest levels in the atmosphere in recorded history. Ocean temperature has risen one degree worldwide with three degrees being catastrophic. The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than scientist ever thought it would in our lifetime. Droughts are becoming prevalent where they never were. Scientist are alarmed at the rate of change happening around the world and the Republican party is still worried about corporate profits instead of focusing on climate change legislation. The Chinese leadership has acknowledged climate change and altered their own economic goals. Can you say catastrophic, you better because what is happening is we have reached a point of no return we just won't acknowledge it in terms of the earth is undergoing monumental changes that threaten the very existence of mankind. Our failure to act has caught up with us, I feel very sorry for future generations we have let them down in a bigger way than can ever be imagined.

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