global warming
Posted posted by Megan @ 1:13 PM
To me Global warming is something that is extremely important and should not be ignored. I think the biggest problem I have with this are people not caring enough about the issue. I do understand that ice caps completely melting wont happen for maybe hundreds of years, but that still doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do anything about it. It may not affect us at the present moment but it will affect everyone that will come after us. Is it right to let them suffer because we simply didn’t care? I think everyone should have some knowledge on the effects of global warming. What we know so far is that increasing global temperatures will cause sea level to rise, and increase the intensity of extreme weather, which changes the pattern of precipitation, which is bad because we all know that effects of bad weather on our country. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, that one scares me the most, and even extinction of species. Those all should be red flags to everyone. There is so much uncertainty about global warming that we should be doing as much research as we can. There are a lot of remaining scientific uncertainties, which includes the amount of warming excepted in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region, around the globe. After thinking a lot about this issue, I find it really funny that lately any major crisis in our country or world that comes up turns into a political debate, or argument, faster then solutions and answers come about. I have a big problem with that. We are too focused on who is right or wrong then working together to find and answer. Like I said before there is a ongoing political and public debate about this issue that I fear will never go away until it’s to late. I think that we should be thinking about action at this point, what we can be doing to reduce or reverse the continuing of warming.
