Global Warming- "An Inconvenient Truth"

Global Warming is something that every person is required to learn about or at the least be taught while in school. Personally, this never caught my attention; I always looked at Global Warming as something that will eventually go away or something that people would eventually forget about in 5-10 years. This is not the case; in fact the complete opposite has happened.
Al Gore, former year 2000 Vice-President of the U.S has made a movie called “An Inconvenient Truth”. This movie includes all about the effects that Global Warming has had and will continue to have here on Earth. Some things that have resulted from this, to me, are making absolutely no sense. It is not natural for the animals that have lived in and belong in warm or cold climates to move closer to the north or south poles because their homes are too hot or too cold for them to survive in! Think about it! Polar Bears are dying because the distances they have to swim to get to “shore” are growing everyday. Gore also explained that due to Global Warming one country could be flooded and at the same time its’ neighboring country could be experiencing a drought. The only thing I could think of was how this is physically possible.
Watching this movie really made me stop and think about the things that make global warming possible and also made me realize that the people who live on and call Earth “home” are the real reason for global warming. Deforestation (the cutting down of forests’) is one of the many things that are making Global Warming. When a single tree is cut down, carbon dioxide is released into the air causing the temperature to raise a fraction of a degree. However, cutting down a whole forest or two, results in a major change in temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide (not meant to be inhaled) in the air. If this movie was seen by at least ¼ of the amount of people here in the U.S and everyone did something like buy a vehicle with a higher MPG or something as so simple as to changing a regular light bulb over to a fluorescent bulb, a very large amount of carbon dioxide would be decreased.
Changing the filter on a furnace or air conditioner saves 350 pounds of carbon dioxide in one single year. - http://climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/ viewed: 9/17/2008