Hey,
I'm back,
Once again.
In case some of you haven't noticed, a new member has joined our group. His name is Pete and he's an adopted pet penguin (of sorts). You'll be able to find him at the bottom of the page, on his own iceberg, it's pretty little though (thanks global warming!). You can feed him fish if you want, and for all you jerks and mean people reading this, if you click on him enough he falls off his iceberg. I'm totally one of those jerks and mean people by the way, I think I spent the first hour after I got him just pushing him in the water. Whatever, he's not real, so who cares.
Anyway, my subject for today is going to be slightly more serious and maybe even a bit more sad than the previous three - sorry guys, so if you were just reading this because you thought I'd be joking around the whole time again, change you're perspective on this post because this one's different - because I'm going to be talking about the future. The future's a scary thing isn't it. It's scary because we don't know what will happen, and as humans, we instinctively fear what we dont know. But in this case, knowing might not exactly help stop that fear.
Global warming is happening. And it's much worse than we could ever imagine. In my opinion, we, as the entire human race, are reaching the turning point. I truly believe, as a species, this is the greatest challenge we shall face.
As everybody know's (or atleast should know), the ice caps in the north are melting. As you can see in this video, their melting a lot.
But you know what I think. I don't think people care. I don't think people give a damn what happens up north, I mean, it's so far away, so why should we?
I'm sure you've all heard that one myth that talks about if all the ice melts, the oceans will rise up and we'll all drown right? No? Well now you have. Anyway, this myth actual has quite a bit of truth too it. If the ice in Antarctica melt, global water levels will actually be raised by about 60 meters. That's a lot considering New York, New Orleans, Miami and Hollywood are all under 10 meters from sea levels. That means they would all be flooded six times over. That's pretty scary if you ask me. So those ice caps that are melting so far away, will actually be flooding places that aren't far away.
That's not all, the bee's are also dying. Now I know what you're thinking '''' Their bees! Who cares!!''''. Well, we should care. It is believed that 1 out of every 3 bites of food we have need pollen to survive. Bee's are responsible for pollinating over 80% of all the plants in the world. As you should know, there are places in this world that are starving right now, because there isn't enough food for everyone. Without bee's, we would be cutting our food supply by atleast one third. One third is an extremly large amount of food.
It's not just plants that would suffer either, the lack of food would go all the way up the food chain so their would be less meat to eat as well.
These are just two of the reasons why global warming is so important. And in my opinion (and apparently Obama's as well) it will be the greatest obstacle the human race is yet to face. And I believe it will only get worse, much worse because we aren't doing enough to fix this problem.
I don't think enough is changing for the climate to return to it's natural temperature. Mesures must be taken to fix this climate soon or it will get worse and worse.
If any of you would like me to talk about something specific about climate change, just leave a comment about it and I'll do my best to write a post about it.
Till next time (I promise my next post won't be as serious)
Matt
Bibliography:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page6.php
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fcons/fcons4.asp
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/global-warming5.htm
https://www.google.ca/search?q=global+warming+bees&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=683&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwipi87GyZTLAhWJbR4KHbCdAj8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=bees+are+important
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Bees/bees3.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZovcCxftAY
That's not all, the bee's are also dying. Now I know what you're thinking '''' Their bees! Who cares!!''''. Well, we should care. It is believed that 1 out of every 3 bites of food we have need pollen to survive. Bee's are responsible for pollinating over 80% of all the plants in the world. As you should know, there are places in this world that are starving right now, because there isn't enough food for everyone. Without bee's, we would be cutting our food supply by atleast one third. One third is an extremly large amount of food.
It's not just plants that would suffer either, the lack of food would go all the way up the food chain so their would be less meat to eat as well.
These are just two of the reasons why global warming is so important. And in my opinion (and apparently Obama's as well) it will be the greatest obstacle the human race is yet to face. And I believe it will only get worse, much worse because we aren't doing enough to fix this problem.
I don't think enough is changing for the climate to return to it's natural temperature. Mesures must be taken to fix this climate soon or it will get worse and worse.
If any of you would like me to talk about something specific about climate change, just leave a comment about it and I'll do my best to write a post about it.
Till next time (I promise my next post won't be as serious)
Matt
Bibliography:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page6.php
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fcons/fcons4.asp
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/global-warming5.htm
https://www.google.ca/search?q=global+warming+bees&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=683&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwipi87GyZTLAhWJbR4KHbCdAj8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=bees+are+important
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Bees/bees3.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZovcCxftAY
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