Global Warming
May 4th, 2009 by Linda JenkinsonAlthough An Inconvenient Truth is a great movie (IMO) it wasn’t the first to indicate the perils of climatic change.
Several years ago, comedian and conservative political pundit Dennis Miller made a crack about global warming. To paraphrase, he said “Who cares if the Earth’s temperature goes up a degree or two every hundred years.” Oddly enough in his new material he has reversed his stance on the problem of global warming. I guess he found out that there is reason to care.
The fact is that this planet is a system. It all works together or it doesn’t work at all. Yes, it is truly incredible that in less than a century human kind has managed to mess up a beautiful system, but the facts are facts.
Long before 2005, I saw a documentary about how the polar (specifically the antarctic) glaciers are rapidly melting into the sea. At the time scientists didn’t know why. Now they do.
I learned from an episode of Mega Disasters on the History Channel that a mini-ice age began about the time of the Dark Ages started. In fact, it may have caused the Dark Ages. This mini ice age lasted up until the 1800’s. It wasn’t “global warming” but it was caused by climatic changes of the sort we are experiencing now, the greatest being the melting of the polar ice caps which introduced fresh water into the seas and substantially changed the environment.
The late comedian, George Carlin did a wonderful bit about planetary change. His take—the earth will survive. Although people and other life forms may not, this hunk of rock will. I tend to agree with his viewpoint. My take is that Mother Earth will always take care of herself with little regard to the lifeforms that try to mess up the system in place. Recent climatic changes and severe weather indicate (to me) that perhaps she is looking at humankind as a fast growing, virulent, virus that she needs to eradicate. I hope we can change her mind before it’s too late.
4 Responses to “Global Warming”
- We should be more concerned about Global Warming and Climate Change because Typhoons are getting much stronger and there are greater incidence of Flooding. take for example the recent Typhoon Ketsana which devastated some countries in South East Asia.
By Tacnet on Nov 4, 2009
Global warming is becoming such an obvious problem that someone somewhere other than the US President needs to step up to help drive a campaign which aims to reduce Global Warming.
By Beautiful Girls Gallery on Jan 3, 2010
It certainly is not only the US President who is concerned about climate change. Have you ever heard of Al Gore or T. Boone Pickins? These are two other Americans that come to mind who are “campaigning” to reduce Global Warming. Additionally many other countries besides America are concerned with climate change. In fact there was a meeting in Copenhagen in December to discuss the problem and before that on September 26, “nearly 4,000 people gathered in 38 countries spanning six continents to consider what should happen at the UN climate change negotiation this December in Copenhagen” according to Yes Magazine and IGLO, the association for International Action on Global Warming. Granted, COP15 made little progress, but at least they did sit down and discuss climate change, which is, in itself, an historical event. From the New York Times: “Representatives of 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen to seek a consensus on an international strategy for fighting global warming, in a series of meetings between Dec. 7 and Dec. 18, 2009. …never before have global leaders come so close to a significant agreement to reduce the greenhouse gases linked to warming the planet”.
It’s clear that the US isn’t the only country concerned with climate change.
By Linda Jenkinson on Jan 3, 2010
Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental issue that we face these days. the long term effects of these environmental changes to a nations economy is quite damaging. there would be a shortage in food supply as well as on water supply too.
By Alicia Meyer on Feb 14, 2010