I have wondered about the people who getting rich from energy. We all play a part but I feel sad for our children.
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We hear a lot about global warming. There are many who say we have played a big part in the problem. One thing is for sure and that thing is that it is a real problem if not for us for our children and grandchildren.

I searched online and found some very powerful statements about this problem and it’s possible resolution. I must admit every time I turn the key to start my car I feel a twinge of guilt. The problem is in this society how do we get around without transportation? There are answers but many of those in power do not wish to address the problem and use alternative power sources.

I found the following statement about the greenhouse affect:

The average surface temperature of earth has increased more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900 and the rate of warming has been nearly three times the century-long average since 1970. Almost all experts studying the recent climate history of the earth agree now that human activities, mainly the release of heat-trapping gases from smokestacks, tailpipes, and burning forests, are probably the dominant force driving the trend. The gases add to the planet's natural greenhouse effect, allowing sunlight in, but preventing some of the resulting heat from radiating back to space. Drawing on research on past climate shifts, observations of current conditions, and computer simulations, many climate experts say that without big curbs in greenhouse gas emissions, the 21st century could see temperatures rise 3 to 8 degrees, weather patterns sharply shift, ice sheets shrink and seas rise several feet.

Our weather has already shown signs of this. Although it has been a mild winter here I do not suppose it is caused directly by the greenhouse affect but I suspect it did play a part. We have cold weather now. It’s January. When I was a kid this weather came and stayed in November and lasted through March or April.

Andrew C. Revkin had these facts:


The main international body on climate change is closing in on its strongest statement yet linking emissions from burning fossil fuels to rising global temperatures.
A report said that capturing the carbon dioxide generated by power plants and factories could play an important role in limiting global warming caused by humans.

Yet, there are those who simply through up their arms and cry, “It was going to happen anyway. They do not wish to invest in a future for our children.

This is a source of sadness for me. I have five grandchildren. I believe in God and Jesus Christ but I do not think he is willing to change us if we are not willing to be changed. This means if we insist on going our own selfish way and not considering what our children and our children’s children will have to deal with we cannot expect God to simply be a knight in shining armor.

This was a little more of the facts that I found online about the price our children will pay for our sins of yesterday and today.



Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group says global warming will likely increase crop yields in temperate northern regions while harming agriculture in tropics, further widening the gap between industrialized and poor nations; they find rise in global temperatures in recent decades has already had impact on wildlife, glaciers, sea ice and other earth features; they warn of damage and disruption from further temperature rise.
Bob Herbert Op-Ed column on global warming discusses recent climate assessment of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concludes that human activity is contributing substantially to warming of planet, and that warming over next century could turn out to be much worse than previously estimated.

This goes as far back as October 30, 2000.

A Sharper Warning on Warming
Editorial notes that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has concluded that mankind's contribution to global warming is greater than originally believed; holds that finding should give added urgency to upcoming meeting in Hague, where most of world's nations will try to work out details of 1997 Kyoto Protocol, treaty intended to cut man-made releases of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

I live on the east coast. When I was a kid my parents took us to Ocean City, Maryland each summer. My wife and I took our kids there. Scientists say the ice on the South Pole is melting. Unlike the North Pole where the Ice is simply frozen water over water the South Pole is land. The ice which is frozen there is frozen over land. As it melts it will simply run into the sea causing it to rise. Eventually, Ocean City Maryland along with many other coastal areas will be under sea.

I am not a science major but I do know we have solar power, wind generated power and hydrogen power to draw from. There are cars that run on hydrogen. There is plenty of that available. Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen.

Our president wants to tear up Alaska by digging for oil wells. We need to make ourselves willing to find alternatives. We have come a long way and we have learned how to transplant organs, we are on the verge of defeating the terror of Cancer. We can do so many things through science that we never could do before but we need to make ourselves aware of the possible consequences of what we do.

I have visited Oil City, Pennsylvania which became a going concern when oil was found not far away. I have seen oil wells that are no longer in use with stacks from which comes flames and smoke from natural gas. This was left after the oil wells went dry. I wonder how much this contributes to global warming.

I don’t have all the answers and I will not pretend that I do but I would ask the people who do have many of these answers to put their economic concerns aside long enough to consider generations to come.