It's NOT A HOAX!!

GLOBAL WARMING!! It's all you hear about nowadays. Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures are rising. This is called the greenhouse effect. There's movies been made about it. We are all aware. The other day I heard someone talking about global warming and how in all its glory, it's a hoax and Al Gore is a fake. I don't understand how people can be that thick-headed! There's this little thing called evidence and it used to matter...

If you think about it, we abuse our planet so much. We take for granted the beautiful blue skies and the way the trees blossom in spring. But what if one day, our beautiful country is buried beneath water? I'm not saying it's going to happen, I'm saying that it could happen if we don't do something about it. We don't restrict the use of our cars because we don't seem to care that the gases we are releasing into the air is polluting it. The surface temperature of the earth is warming up and the drastic change in weather over the past few years is no lie. Oceans are warming, glaciers are disappearing, sea ice is melting in the Arctic and Antarctica and Greenland's ice sheet is melting!! The number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the past thirty years, the flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade and at least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles. This is pretty extreme and can't exactly be ignored or shrugged off as "circumstances of nature".

Some people who don't believe in global warming don't deny that our earth is warming up but they just think the causes are not man-made. But what else could it be? I don't see anyone else polluting the air with greenhouse gases! And REGARDLESS of who or what caused it, it's still happening!! Our earth is crying out for help and we are not listening because we are creatures of habit. We will keep doing what we've always done until global warming reaches a level so critical that it affects our daily lives.

Why do people continue to ignore the science? And why is it that people keep saying that scientists don't believe in it? They do. According to a survey released by the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), over 8 out of 10 American climate scientists believe that human activity contributes to global warming. They know that global warming is already happening so why can't we? What kind of world are we living in if we can't believe scientific evidence anymore? Freedom of speech might be our ultimate destruction.


I read an article where one guy was rambling on about how global warming is fake and that scientists don't believe in it. However, the only impression I got after reading this article was that he cared more about boasting about his many degrees and apparent credibility than whether global warming is real or not. I've just shown you statistics and what proof did he have? None, none I tell you!!


Global warming is not a hoax. Sadly, if I ran all over town in my underwear screaming this chilling fact, no one would listen to me. In fact, I'd probably just end up in Henry Bennetts. So perhaps I'll stick to blogging. Al Gore started a global trend with his global warming campaign so why don't we follow suit? Let us be sheep. Let us save our planet.