Nick Falk
On May 26, 2006, a highly influential film came out that
really caught everyone’s attention. This film took everyone for surprise
because while most of us, Americans expect for media and news to give us a
glittering perspective of what goes on in this world, while this particular
film took the liberty to spare no detail in their urgent message. The film is
An Inconvenient Truth which helps beg the question “Is the natural Earth’s
future a positive one?” The global warming debate is a fairly new one, but is
one of the most important ones in this day and age. This topic is so clearly
divided, mostly by partisan beliefs. This leaves the average American who tries
to stay aware keep up with topics like this confused because each side has such
strong arguments, but one side, as it will be seen throughout this will be able
to give numbers to help support its case. The realization that the claims made
to warn us about global warming is important of the rise of sea level and the
drastic change in climate and weather.
Since the first civilization, mankind always sets up
their villages and in today’s standards, cities near bodies of water. Most of
America’s biggest cites are by water like New York, Miami, Chicago, and Los
Angeles. That is why so many people are in danger in the near future. Most
people can’t look that far ahead, but if we do not try harder to stop the
melting of glaciers then millions of people’s homes will be under water. According
to NASA’s data the ocean rises 40 millimeters every decade while only little
more than a century ago it was half that. Now I know that the skeptics will
claim that that is not very much but as these millimeters compound to form
centimeters and inches, they get closer and closer to flooding that first row
of houses along the beach. It was about 2.5 billion years ago when all the
water was liquid and there were no glaciers yet. This was when ocean covered
over 90% of the Earth. Overcrowding is seen as a problem in the near future as
the human population grows exponentially, and it will require much more time
and effort to find an acceptable solution considering the available dry land
will a fraction than what is available today. It has happened before, so it is
not impossible and it should not be taken as a grain of sand.
I t seems like every day, if anyone listens to the news
or any weather media, that they frequently hear the same three words, “record
breaking heat”. Almost every day breaks some sort of temperature record. That
is not all that will change with the rising of this heat. There are all these
pictures and articles of dry deserts that used to be bodies of water, but now
these once-lakes evaporated too quickly. There is one question that hardly
anyone looked into or even pondered on. “Where do all these dried up lakes and
rivers go?” The water can’t just disappear. It really accumulates it then
creates a strong rainstorm that contains the ability to cause some real damage
to where it falls. This is one of the many examples that aren’t widely
expressed in order to warn people. Another example, with the recent rise in temperatures,
also means that diseases now spread faster because they thrive in the heat.
Tropical storms, typhoons, and hurricanes will also grow in strength and destruction
due to the increase in evaporation. There are now even more possible outcomes
that yield misfortune for humans than all the other over used and outdated
example we used to here.
The more and more information that is published, the more
following it gets and the more legitimacy each American sees in this cause. Every
day new points are being brought up that need to be spread. The effects of
global warming like the change in temperature and change in sea level need to
be more important in everybody’s mind and how we focus ourselves. People need
to see the numbers for what they are and not discredit them because they come
from a group that fells differently on other issues or is a different party.
Work
cited
NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2016.
Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change. Perf. Al Gore. Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change. TED Talk, 25 Feb. 2016. Web. 10 Dec. 2016.
Al Gore: New Thinking on Climate Change. Perf. Al Gore. Al Gore: New Thinking on Climate Change. Ted Talk, n.d. Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO8bdrXghs
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