That girl there is about 13 years old, her name, Severn Cullis-Suzuki. What more she did this speech in 1992! In 1992 some 12 year old girl had more insight to global warming then most of us do now some 16 years later. How can we let this be? Why is it that we still doubt that this is true?
On November 9, 2004 NASA's satellites caught images of an iceberg (B-15a) the size of Long Island breaking off in the Antarctic and for two months floating free till it ran a shore.
Weather now a day’s more extreme, with higher highs and lower lows. It has become more volatile by the year. Why is this happening? How? What can we do to stop it and what will happen to us if we do not stop it? Well the why and how is easy. In a nutshell, we make “greenhouse” gasses and they go in to the atmosphere. In the summer the gasses block the heat from the sun from leaving the earth’s atmosphere and in the winter it blocks the little bit of heat from getting in. What we can do to stop it. Some of this is simple and easy, some not so much.
Stuff like not littering, not driving when you can walk or bike. Take public transit in the city. Alternative power and fuel would work too. These are simple easy ways to cut down on your “carbon foot print”.
Harder things are things like lowering carbon emissions for big companies and the like, or stuff like carbon capture.
This shows how carbon capture could work. I have some issues with carbon capture. Like it is just going to mask the problem and let us continue to use carbon and not fix the problem.
Then there is this...
Well whatever we do we have to do it soon, or we will not have a livable planet to play on. Next time that iceberg may not be stopped and then what will happen?
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