Being Warned

TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO the skies over London, England were Chocked black with air pollution from factories. In 1852 thousands of people died during a particularly smog choked few days.A few perceptive scientists took notice, and predicted that if the coal dust continued to belch into the atmosphere, that eventually the earth's atmosphere would absorb more heat, causing global warming. We've, at least a few of us, have known about climate change for a long, long time. Einstein, who died in 1955, believed that we should think about deliberately adding carbon to the atmosphere, to produce climate change, and improve agricultural production in a hungry world full of starvation and famine. Even Einstein had some bad ideas. Fifty years ago, in Congress, Senator Paul Tsongas and Representative Al Gore worked on committees which provided warnings of environmental destruction and of global warming due to atmospheric pollution. In 1988. NASA scientist James Hanson warned Congress, the american people, and the world that global warming had already begun, and that it would get much worse if not stopped. We have had plenty of warnings, plenty of opportunity to start doing something, to solve the problem. right now in Antarctica there is an iceberg the size of Manhattan which is on the verge of slitting off the land mass, dropping into the ocean, melting, and raising the sea level by two feet. Another much larger ice berg the size of Ireland is right behind it; if the first one goes so will the second, and scientists now say that is appears inevitable that they will both melt in the ocean and raise the sea level by eleven more feet, putting all the world's coastal cities under water. within the next few decades this is almost inevitable, the raising of the world's sea level by at least a dozen feet, and flooding along all coastlines. We cannot say that we were never warned.