Global Warming: Never Too Late to Stop It

Although it is blown off the front page by elections and financial news, global warming is still occurring at an alarming rate. We ignore this information at our own peril—and certain calamity in our children's future and their children's lives. In one year (2006-2007), the ice in the minimum Arctic sea ice decreased by half: MELTING ICE. What will the lack of a food chain in the ocean mean for humans? For animals? The source of the above story is a study by Stanford professor Kevin Arrigo and his colleagues Gert van Dijken and Sudeshna Pabi. 

We consumers can at least do the bare minimum for preventing greenhouse gases; conserving our resources; asking our local, state, and federal governments to address this change by implementing low- or no-carbon-footprint solutions to our consumption of food, transportation, and other goods. Some resources on what we can all do to prevent the worst effects of global warming: STOP GLOBAL WARMING

Dire Predictions by Michael E. Mann, associate professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center, and Lee R. Kump, professor of geosciences, both at Penn State. Explication of the IPCC Report—you don't need a science background to understand the facts: DIRE PREDICTIONS. It's on sale online; just go to the Amazon store on Riptide's right sidebar. Pacifica library has a copy or two.

Also, check out RUNNING DRY 

SUMMER RHODES
RIPTIDE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

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[Summer Rhodes]

update on global warming:

NASA reports The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics — the type associated with severe storms and rainfall — is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Read the story here:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-12-19-global-warming-severe-storms_N.htm

And, for some amusement, take the (one question) global warming poll on the same page. According to the poll, 76 percent of the public have it wrong, one way or another. Enter your vote!