the world, or part of it

With the special on last night’s 60 Minutes and articles popping up all over the web, global warming seems to be an issue that is resurfacing fast. Recent statistics have shown that the glaciers in Greenland are melting almost twice as fast as predicted. The myth that global warming will take a very long time to make a dramatic effect is melting away. There are predictions that the sea may rise two feet by the end of this century. A mere two feet would be enough to flood the low-lands of any country out there.

Even if all of the cars, factories, and any other greenhouse gas emitting machines were stopped today and never turned back on, the current warming trend would continue until the end of the century. Which would be too late anyway , because the seas would have risen so fast. In the State of the Union Address a few weeks ago, the president came across the subject of new forms of energy to run our cars. He mainly focused on the subject so we wont be as reliant on the Middle East (whether he actually means it or not) for oil, but the warming must be stopped in the process.

It almost seems ironic to be talking about global warming when we are just being let out of the deep colds and heavy snow that is setting records around the world. Las Vegas, which hardly sees cold, got a little bit of snow over during the grips of this cold. Russia, the country that is most used to the cold, has been seeing Ice Age temperatures that has claimed many lives. But even with all of this cold, it is safe to say that spring is on the way.