How The White House And Senate Blew A Deal For Climate Change: New Yorker

You're going to pay more one way or another. There's just no getting around it.



"Global warming", while an accurate description of the average temperature of the planet on whole, was an unfortunate name for it, because it requires an educated population to understand the science behind the phenomenon.



What's actually happening is a complex chain of events that human activities are causing. Even if you don't believe that humans are causing it, everyone (except the Christine O'Donnells in the US) agrees that human activities are making it worse.



When greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) are released into the atmosphere (from human activities), they trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere. This increases the temperature, overall, and causes extremes of climate change. More hurricanes, more floods, more droughts, more extremes of weather. Increased temperatures melting the polar ice caps. Rising ocean temperatures, slowing of ocean currents, the death of algae, etc. There are cycles speeding up, patterns upon patterns, driving this process where life on the planet is being challenged, changing faster than we can deal with it to save our own lives.



http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm



I recommend you watch a series that James Burke did about 20 years ago called After The Warming:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFjy5FORbo&feature=PlayList&p=16E277DDB6723CC0&index=0&playnext=1
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