There is no longer any doubt that the world is getting warmer. Glaciers in Greenland and the USA are melting. Ocean temperatures are on the rise. And weather patterns seem to be less reliable/predictable… well less like they used to be. Yesterday for instance, Mumbai (Bombay, India) had nearly a meter of rain over a 24 hour period. 200 people died — imagine that! Link
… The reasons for this trend are less certain. The Earth’s climate changes naturally all the time. Witness the many occasions over millions of years in which the planet has slipped into and out of ice ages.
Mark Henderson | Times Online | Link
A few months ago I joined the Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington as a bit of fun. It was also a way of putting my hand up and saying ‘I AM CONCERNED’ about what we are doing to our environment.
I’m not sure if global warming is an issue that will bite us today or in a hundred or a thousand years time. What I am sure of is that something funny is going on with the bloody weather. And maaate, when it quacks like a duck, then in my book it may well be a duck. Which only goes to show, I’m really quite a simple sort of guy.
This email arrived today from the Virtual March:
Dear Fellow Marcher,
With most of the country trapped in a sweltering heat wave this week, we turn our attention to Glacier National Park, where the ultimate heat wave — Global Warming — is threatening to destroy a national treasure.
In 1910, Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. Today, just 37 remain. At the current pace at which temperatures are rising, they will all be gone by 2030! You can read more about the dramatic destruction of Glacier National Park at http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/march/glacier.
This weekend, the March goes electric at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago. The festival’s founder, Perry Farrell (front man for Jane’s Addiction), will take the stage to urge 90,000 festivalgoers to join our March! Using state of the art “Mobile Marching” technology, music fans will be able to sign up by sending a simple text message from their cell phones via 4INFO.
But don’t leave all the work to Perry! Invite your favourite music lovers to join us on the March to Stop Global Warming from your personal impact page!
More from the road in two weeks…
Laurie David
Founder