THE FIRST TEN MONTHS of twenty twelve were, you guessed it, the ten hottest months on record. Sound familiar? Doesn't it seem as if every six months, or every year, is described as the hottest ever? A new record is set every time the calendar is turned. And they're not making it up. Its real.
For many years now scientists have been making predictions, offering possible scenarios for the progress of global warming, best case, worst case, and so forth. The emerging consensus among those who know what to study and how to study it is that the actual progress of global warming is equalling or exceeding the worst case scenarios.
When the summer ended, we quit talking about the drought, maybe because you tend to notice it much more when the temperature is one hundred degrees everyday. Drought can occur anywhere, anytime, and across of the united states it has not ended , just turned into a cooler temperature type.
Forests can become prairies, and prairies can become deserts. When trees have to suck harder to draw moisture from the ground, they start sucking air, which kills them. And just think, we could all, all seven billion of us, plant, say, one tree per year per person, hardwoods in hardwood areas, conifers where needed, and so on, and start sucking the surplus carbon, which is the main problem, out of the atmosphere. Combine that with cleaner technologies and a little population stabilization or reduction, and you're on your way.
Eight months from now, in july twenty thirteen, there will probably be an announcement here that, yes, the past six months were....the hottest...on record...
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