Our Planet

Read this , and then tell me you're not concerned.

The link above goes to a story on CNN's website regarding the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the term they use is 'carbon sink' and how, in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, this sink is full. If the sink can't absorb the carbon, it stays in the atmosphere causing the planet to warm, the greenhouse effect. This planet is warming faster than scientists originally thought, this new data expedites the necessity for change in a whole new way. Have you seen the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'? Ironically it was on tv last night, the same day this newest study was released, it's not far from the truth.

I don't know how anyone can not be very concerned given all of the new information, it's hard to believe there are still debunkers, it will probably take natural disasters on a scale the Human race has never seen to convince some of these idiots.

Scientists didn't expect to be able to detect this for another 50 years or so, this is big. This means all of their projecting has to be reworked, this will not be good, especially for coastal places like here. I'm on borrowed time already so chances are pretty good that I won't see the worst of it, I hope, and I have to admit at this point that I'm glad I never had any children, not with the world we've left them.

There is an urgency that isn't getting across to the general public, we really need to change our ways, now, today, not tomorrow or next year, if we don't how many years will there be left? How much suffering will there be along the way? Already the hurricane season started early and there have been many powerful tornadoes, some in places that rarely see that kind of intensity.

I have a friend who travels a lot in both hurricane areas as well as tornado alley, I worry now and have lectured her on being prepared for the worst. She listens to the radio now instead of cds when she travels now, in case there is a weather warning anywhere nearby, that makes me feel a little better.

I'm not looking forward to whats to come but I will do my part, however small it is, to try and stop it from happening.