Friday, May 30, 2003
Polar Bear finds a play toy in the Artic.
This leads me to an Article emailed me by Kashei at Spot On by Ann Coulter about the environment.
Global warming is a complicated scientific issue thats influence will be measured in 100's and 1000's of years, not comparing this winter or summer to last years. The earth will change naturally over time even without any human influence so we can't expect our climate to always be the same.
I do believe human impact is having an effect on the earth's climate. The Polar Ice caps are melting, that is a fact.
Here is a simple way to thing about it:
Greenhouse gasses occur in nature. They are the gasses that have kept the Earth's temparature much warmer than the earth would be without these gasses. This has been going on for millions of years. Now if Humans add more of these gasses on top of what nature has already provided the impact will be a larger greenhouse effect.
The EPA explains greenhouse effect
encyclopedia.com explains global warming
The passage below is from the Article about the Polar Bear and the Nuclear Submarine. It's from The War Strategy Page and not an environmental group.
They have also used their sonar to measure the ice thickness and report that the ice has lost 40 percent of its thickness in the last 20 years. This has caused problems for the polar bears, who feed on seals that surface near offshore ice flows or through breathing holes in pack ice. Some bears are forced to come ashore earlier because of the longer warm season. This is caused by a combination of global warming and the normal fluctuation of Arctic ice thickness.
This leads me to an Article emailed me by Kashei at Spot On by Ann Coulter about the environment.
Global warming is a complicated scientific issue thats influence will be measured in 100's and 1000's of years, not comparing this winter or summer to last years. The earth will change naturally over time even without any human influence so we can't expect our climate to always be the same.
I do believe human impact is having an effect on the earth's climate. The Polar Ice caps are melting, that is a fact.
Here is a simple way to thing about it:
Greenhouse gasses occur in nature. They are the gasses that have kept the Earth's temparature much warmer than the earth would be without these gasses. This has been going on for millions of years. Now if Humans add more of these gasses on top of what nature has already provided the impact will be a larger greenhouse effect.
The EPA explains greenhouse effect
encyclopedia.com explains global warming
The passage below is from the Article about the Polar Bear and the Nuclear Submarine. It's from The War Strategy Page and not an environmental group.
They have also used their sonar to measure the ice thickness and report that the ice has lost 40 percent of its thickness in the last 20 years. This has caused problems for the polar bears, who feed on seals that surface near offshore ice flows or through breathing holes in pack ice. Some bears are forced to come ashore earlier because of the longer warm season. This is caused by a combination of global warming and the normal fluctuation of Arctic ice thickness.
