About Global Warming!!
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Global warming is already affecting the world we know, endangering polar bears, shortening ski seasons and creating more intense storms. We know how to fix this problem and prevent a global environmental disaster. Get on our interactive map to share your concerns about a warmer planet, and find global warming solutions that you can put into action today.
What causes global warming?
Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually.Here's the good news: technologies exist today to make cars that run cleaner and burn less gas, modernize power plants and generate electricity from nonpolluting sources, and cut our electricity use through energy efficiency. The challenge is to be sure these solutions are put to use.
Which country is The largest source of global warming pollution?
The United States. Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- by far the largest share of any country. In fact, the United States emits more carbon dioxide than China, India and Japan, combined. Clearly America ought to take a leadership role in solving the problem. And as the world's top developer of new technologies, we are well positioned to do so -- we already have the know-how.
What causes global warming?
Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually.Here's the good news: technologies exist today to make cars that run cleaner and burn less gas, modernize power plants and generate electricity from nonpolluting sources, and cut our electricity use through energy efficiency. The challenge is to be sure these solutions are put to use.
Which country is The largest source of global warming pollution?
The United States. Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- by far the largest share of any country. In fact, the United States emits more carbon dioxide than China, India and Japan, combined. Clearly America ought to take a leadership role in solving the problem. And as the world's top developer of new technologies, we are well positioned to do so -- we already have the know-how.
More Powerful and Dangerous Hurricanes:-
Warmer water in the oceans pumps more energy into tropical storms, making them stronger and potentially more destructive.
Warning signs today:
The number of category 4 and 5 storms has greatly increased over the past 35 years, along with ocean temperature.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, with a record 27 named storms, of which 15 became hurricanes. Seven of the hurricanes strengthened into major storms, five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.
Hurricane Katrina of August 2005 was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history.
Warning signs today:
The number of category 4 and 5 storms has greatly increased over the past 35 years, along with ocean temperature.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, with a record 27 named storms, of which 15 became hurricanes. Seven of the hurricanes strengthened into major storms, five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.
Hurricane Katrina of August 2005 was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history.
SCIENTISTS WARN OF GLOBAL COINCIDENCE
Rising Temps, Oceans, and Greenhouse Gas Proof of Weird,Unrelated Happenings
Sea levels swelled, but still they doubted. Temperatures soared,but still they questioned. Glaciers disappeared, yet even so,they refused to believe. But now, the sudden disintegrationof a massive Antarctic ice shelf may convinced even the mosthardened skeptics that Earth truly is threatened by Global Coincidence.
Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf before (above) and afterGlobal Coincidence caused its destruction. "If there was before, there can be no doubt now that there isone very obvious reason why all these things are happening,"said Dr. Milton Suter of the Center for ClimatologicalHappenstance. "And that reason is: Because they are."
The numbers supporting Global Coincidence, Suter insisted,don't lie. In the last 100 years, while carbon dioxide andmethane emissions have surged, the world's average landsurface temperature has risen 1.0ºF, and the oceans haverisen 6 to 8 inches. "For most people, that would be enough,"Suter noted. "I mean, right there, all that adds up to apretty strange coincidence."
But then, over the last month, the 800-square-kilometerLarsen B ice shelf in Antarctica fractured and collapsed"So on top of everything else, a 500-billion-ton chunk ofice just happens to melt and break apart? Frankly, that'snot just a coincidence," said Suter, "that's an incrediblecoincidence."
Polls show that Global Coincidence theory has long beenembraced by the general public, but a handful of scientistsremain skeptical. "I've seen their data, and I still wonderif perhaps there's not some kind of cause-and-effectrelationship that we should be addressing," said Dr.Kathryn Burke of the Sierra Club. "I believe GlobalCoincidence may be one possible scenario, but we needto do more studies, including some that point to possiblelinkages between events, if they exist."
That kind of reaction angers Global Coincidence proponents likeDr. Christian Barstow of the World Climatic Coincidence Fund."More studies? How long do we have to wait before theseapologists realize the results are already in?" he said."It's time to accept that Global Coincidence is very real,and that if we don't do something, it's only going to get worse.
"And also if we do do something, it's only going to get worse,"he added. "That's the nature of this beast."
Sea levels swelled, but still they doubted. Temperatures soared,but still they questioned. Glaciers disappeared, yet even so,they refused to believe. But now, the sudden disintegrationof a massive Antarctic ice shelf may convinced even the mosthardened skeptics that Earth truly is threatened by Global Coincidence.
Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf before (above) and afterGlobal Coincidence caused its destruction. "If there was before, there can be no doubt now that there isone very obvious reason why all these things are happening,"said Dr. Milton Suter of the Center for ClimatologicalHappenstance. "And that reason is: Because they are."
The numbers supporting Global Coincidence, Suter insisted,don't lie. In the last 100 years, while carbon dioxide andmethane emissions have surged, the world's average landsurface temperature has risen 1.0ºF, and the oceans haverisen 6 to 8 inches. "For most people, that would be enough,"Suter noted. "I mean, right there, all that adds up to apretty strange coincidence."
But then, over the last month, the 800-square-kilometerLarsen B ice shelf in Antarctica fractured and collapsed"So on top of everything else, a 500-billion-ton chunk ofice just happens to melt and break apart? Frankly, that'snot just a coincidence," said Suter, "that's an incrediblecoincidence."
Polls show that Global Coincidence theory has long beenembraced by the general public, but a handful of scientistsremain skeptical. "I've seen their data, and I still wonderif perhaps there's not some kind of cause-and-effectrelationship that we should be addressing," said Dr.Kathryn Burke of the Sierra Club. "I believe GlobalCoincidence may be one possible scenario, but we needto do more studies, including some that point to possiblelinkages between events, if they exist."
That kind of reaction angers Global Coincidence proponents likeDr. Christian Barstow of the World Climatic Coincidence Fund."More studies? How long do we have to wait before theseapologists realize the results are already in?" he said."It's time to accept that Global Coincidence is very real,and that if we don't do something, it's only going to get worse.
"And also if we do do something, it's only going to get worse,"he added. "That's the nature of this beast."
SPREADING COINCIDENCE?
Intrigued by the climate studies, some scientists are nowinvestigating the influence of Global Coincidence in a numberof unexplored areas. Researchers at the U.S. State Departmentare using GC to separate U.S. foreign policy decisions andinternational reaction to U.S. foreign policy decisions.In health care, Global Coincidence has already producedstartling results.
"Right now, we're looking at people who die of lung cancer,and people who smoke cigarettes, and we see that often theseare the same people," said Dr. Russell Crowder of the AmericanTobacco Institute's new Center for Inescapably Random Occurrences."I don't know what the odds are of those things happeningindependently, but they've got to be astronomical."
"That's absurd," replied Millicent Hu of the American CancerSociety. "The link between cigarettes and cancer is no morea coincidence than if I put two and two together and get four."
"Whoa, that's what happens when I put two and two together!"replied Crowder. "Freaky."
But already, detractors are becoming increasingly rare.Some credit overwhelming evidence in favor of GlobalCoincidence. Others point to an exchange last week atthe first annual International Conference on IncredibleGlobal Coincidence between a statistical logician andSuter of the Climatological Happenstance Center.
Logician: "Look, everything is not a coincidence.I mean, if you shoot me with a gun and I die, that'snot a coincidence. You have a gun. You pull the trigger.Bang. I'm dead."
Suter: Ah, but what if I actually happen to have agun on me right now?
Logician: Well, OK, I admit, that would be a...
BANG
Suter: Coincidence?
After the applause died down, Suter drove home his pointthat there is no point in looking for a point. "All in all,the data is stunning. The British growing season is nowlonger than ever. The Arctic ice is considerably thinnerthan it was 50 years ago. The 20th Century's 10 warmestyears all occurred in the last 15 years," he said."Given that, I think I speak for everyone in the GlobalCoincidence community when I say, 'Wow. Go figure.
Intrigued by the climate studies, some scientists are nowinvestigating the influence of Global Coincidence in a numberof unexplored areas. Researchers at the U.S. State Departmentare using GC to separate U.S. foreign policy decisions andinternational reaction to U.S. foreign policy decisions.In health care, Global Coincidence has already producedstartling results.
"Right now, we're looking at people who die of lung cancer,and people who smoke cigarettes, and we see that often theseare the same people," said Dr. Russell Crowder of the AmericanTobacco Institute's new Center for Inescapably Random Occurrences."I don't know what the odds are of those things happeningindependently, but they've got to be astronomical."
"That's absurd," replied Millicent Hu of the American CancerSociety. "The link between cigarettes and cancer is no morea coincidence than if I put two and two together and get four."
"Whoa, that's what happens when I put two and two together!"replied Crowder. "Freaky."
But already, detractors are becoming increasingly rare.Some credit overwhelming evidence in favor of GlobalCoincidence. Others point to an exchange last week atthe first annual International Conference on IncredibleGlobal Coincidence between a statistical logician andSuter of the Climatological Happenstance Center.
Logician: "Look, everything is not a coincidence.I mean, if you shoot me with a gun and I die, that'snot a coincidence. You have a gun. You pull the trigger.Bang. I'm dead."
Suter: Ah, but what if I actually happen to have agun on me right now?
Logician: Well, OK, I admit, that would be a...
BANG
Suter: Coincidence?
After the applause died down, Suter drove home his pointthat there is no point in looking for a point. "All in all,the data is stunning. The British growing season is nowlonger than ever. The Arctic ice is considerably thinnerthan it was 50 years ago. The 20th Century's 10 warmestyears all occurred in the last 15 years," he said."Given that, I think I speak for everyone in the GlobalCoincidence community when I say, 'Wow. Go figure.
To Be Continued...................................
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