CLIMATE CHANGE V GLOBAL WARMING! (Frazer Chronicles)
That kinda sounds like a line from Law & Order, "Climate Change V Global Warming" and "we're done here." Hey I like that, I thought this might be another dry, statistic filled Blog, but maybe the human touch can come through, I hope so, for my sisters sake. She has accused me of entering boring dissertations, long in duration, filled with words that she doesn't understand, seeing as how she spent the first 10 years of her life locket away in a potato cellar at our mother's request, it's not hard to understand why she wouldn't understand much of what I Blog.
I have another sister who depends on the natural rains and warmth of the summer sun to promote her flower gardens and poesy's around her house. She is retired and spends as much time as possible with her flowers, so I'm sure that she is "keen" on the climate change issue. Elaine has many different spices of plants and amazingly she can call each by name, "not nick names, Jane," the real horticultural given names.
Both my sisters have flowers around their houses and work on them throughout the growing season in Michigan's lower peninsula. I have my tomato plants here in Northeastern Wisconsin and labor over them each year, "with little results, I might add." The three of us, "which is my point," have a vested interest, albeit casual, in how the weather effects our growing endeavors each summer.
Climate change in the world, according to the experts, is "bad and getting worse." Everybody knows, "or should know," that Greenland's two largest glaciers are melting at an ever increasing rate, especially over the past 10 years, the water produced would fill Lake Erie, "now that's alot "O" water."
On the reverse side of the issue is west Texas, which is currently undergoing it's worst drought since the great dust bowl of the 1930's. The resulting lack of water is leaving the states wheat and cotton crops in an extremely dire situation.
Central China has experienced it's worst drought in more then 50 years and regional authorities have declared more then 1300 lakes "dead." Now that stopped me in my tracks, I didn't know that a lake could die, I mean I knew that they can dry up, but to die. The meaning of a dead lake is that there out of use for both irrigation and drinking water supply.
Floods have struck eastern and southern China, killing scores, forcing evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, followed by severe flooding that again hit eastern China, forcing an additional 5 million people to seek safer high ground.
Meanwhile in Europe, crops in the northwest are suffering the driest weather in decades and scientific research has confirmed that, so far, humankind has raised the earth's temperature, and these events are directly tied to that temperature.
Of course the flooding in the Dakota's, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Oho, Michigan and Wisconsin can be traced to wetter then usual springs. Can these events be connected toglobal warming, oops, I mean Climate Change, "I want to be politically correct," possibly.
If there's only a slight possibility that people are causing some sort of climate change, shouldn't we, as the human race, attempt to make some sort of change so that our children and grand children can enjoy the earth that we all live in.
I have read where infectious diseases carried by insects, like Malaria, Lyme disease, Dengue fever are all expected to worsen. Vector-borne diseases will also increase as climate change progresses and attack undeveloped country's that have not developed resistance to these types diseases.
Some doctors feel that the effect from climate change will be from heating of the planet which will change our health with far-reaching problems. Everything that effects our environment, effects our health. No matter what our technology advances might be, as a people, we still need clean water, air and food, and we rely on our environment for it.
Hurricane Katrina, some cite as a prime example of what can happen during a weather event that "might" be caused from climate change. 2000 people died, thousands of people were throw out of work, hundreds of thousands were left homeless and thousands were displaced forever.
In addition, New Orleans, before the storm had 7 hospitals, now there are 2.5 operating, and the other 4.5 will never return. The physical injuries and psyche illness's connected with Katrina have not gone away, and may never.
Some people think that new technology will save us, others say that there is no problem and yet others figure that "whatever happens will take thousands of years." Any one of these beliefs might be true, but if human kind is causing climate change, we're screwing ourselves, and worse, future generations.
I usually don't give a crap about "future generations," I figure we have had to deal with what our ancestors left us, and the future generations can do the same. However in this case, climate change, and the huge changes that seem to be happening in our time, or beginning to happen in our time, probably needs to be addressed, now.
Saudi Arabia has announced that the water reserve that they depend on for drinking water and crops will be gone by possible 2020. Hey, I might still be alive then and as that country's aquifer is depleted, where will they get their water, and as their oil reserves are depleted, how will they pay for water and how high will gasoline prices be.
I'm uneasy about this climate change thing, "I don't like to be uneasy about something that I have no control over." I want to take a shower whenever I want, I want a drink of water whenever I want, and if I decide to water my lawn, I want to do so, whenever I want.
The carbon that is produced everyday by us all damages the atmosphere, everybody knows that, even the fossil fuel companies. Those company officials have kids, just like we do, do they really think that they can escape the same fate that we might face?
I have another sister who depends on the natural rains and warmth of the summer sun to promote her flower gardens and poesy's around her house. She is retired and spends as much time as possible with her flowers, so I'm sure that she is "keen" on the climate change issue. Elaine has many different spices of plants and amazingly she can call each by name, "not nick names, Jane," the real horticultural given names.
Both my sisters have flowers around their houses and work on them throughout the growing season in Michigan's lower peninsula. I have my tomato plants here in Northeastern Wisconsin and labor over them each year, "with little results, I might add." The three of us, "which is my point," have a vested interest, albeit casual, in how the weather effects our growing endeavors each summer.
Climate change in the world, according to the experts, is "bad and getting worse." Everybody knows, "or should know," that Greenland's two largest glaciers are melting at an ever increasing rate, especially over the past 10 years, the water produced would fill Lake Erie, "now that's alot "O" water."
On the reverse side of the issue is west Texas, which is currently undergoing it's worst drought since the great dust bowl of the 1930's. The resulting lack of water is leaving the states wheat and cotton crops in an extremely dire situation.
Central China has experienced it's worst drought in more then 50 years and regional authorities have declared more then 1300 lakes "dead." Now that stopped me in my tracks, I didn't know that a lake could die, I mean I knew that they can dry up, but to die. The meaning of a dead lake is that there out of use for both irrigation and drinking water supply.
Floods have struck eastern and southern China, killing scores, forcing evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, followed by severe flooding that again hit eastern China, forcing an additional 5 million people to seek safer high ground.
Meanwhile in Europe, crops in the northwest are suffering the driest weather in decades and scientific research has confirmed that, so far, humankind has raised the earth's temperature, and these events are directly tied to that temperature.
Of course the flooding in the Dakota's, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Oho, Michigan and Wisconsin can be traced to wetter then usual springs. Can these events be connected to
If there's only a slight possibility that people are causing some sort of climate change, shouldn't we, as the human race, attempt to make some sort of change so that our children and grand children can enjoy the earth that we all live in.
I have read where infectious diseases carried by insects, like Malaria, Lyme disease, Dengue fever are all expected to worsen. Vector-borne diseases will also increase as climate change progresses and attack undeveloped country's that have not developed resistance to these types diseases.
Some doctors feel that the effect from climate change will be from heating of the planet which will change our health with far-reaching problems. Everything that effects our environment, effects our health. No matter what our technology advances might be, as a people, we still need clean water, air and food, and we rely on our environment for it.
Hurricane Katrina, some cite as a prime example of what can happen during a weather event that "might" be caused from climate change. 2000 people died, thousands of people were throw out of work, hundreds of thousands were left homeless and thousands were displaced forever.
In addition, New Orleans, before the storm had 7 hospitals, now there are 2.5 operating, and the other 4.5 will never return. The physical injuries and psyche illness's connected with Katrina have not gone away, and may never.
Some people think that new technology will save us, others say that there is no problem and yet others figure that "whatever happens will take thousands of years." Any one of these beliefs might be true, but if human kind is causing climate change, we're screwing ourselves, and worse, future generations.
I usually don't give a crap about "future generations," I figure we have had to deal with what our ancestors left us, and the future generations can do the same. However in this case, climate change, and the huge changes that seem to be happening in our time, or beginning to happen in our time, probably needs to be addressed, now.
Saudi Arabia has announced that the water reserve that they depend on for drinking water and crops will be gone by possible 2020. Hey, I might still be alive then and as that country's aquifer is depleted, where will they get their water, and as their oil reserves are depleted, how will they pay for water and how high will gasoline prices be.
I'm uneasy about this climate change thing, "I don't like to be uneasy about something that I have no control over." I want to take a shower whenever I want, I want a drink of water whenever I want, and if I decide to water my lawn, I want to do so, whenever I want.
The carbon that is produced everyday by us all damages the atmosphere, everybody knows that, even the fossil fuel companies. Those company officials have kids, just like we do, do they really think that they can escape the same fate that we might face?
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