An Inconvenient Truth

To be honest, before watching “The Inconvininent Truth” I did not know very much about global warming. If someone came up and asked me what I thought about global warming, I would probably have nothing to say about it. After watching this documentary, it has really opened my eyes to global warming. I can now see how big of an issue it is in our world. It is actually very scary to me. It just makes me wonder if most everyone just ignores this issue, what is going to happen to the world? It makes me wonder throughout my lifetime what is going to happen? Not to mention if someday I have kids what are they going to go through?

One of the points that he brought up really sticks out in my mind. He was saying that polar bears have been found dead. Some of the polar bears have been drowning because they have had to swim so far that they could not make it. That is very sad to me. So much ice is melting that they are having to swim a lot more. Does this mean that one day polar bears are going to be extinct? From the sounds of it yes. The sad thing is that it’s not just polar bears that rely on the ice and the cold weather. Many other animals need the ice. If the glaciers are melting everyday, then eventually we will have no glaciers on our earth. I can’t imagine the earth without any glaciers.

He also said that we have had more natural disasters that have been caused by gloabal warming. When the water temperature gets warmer the storms get worse. The water temperature is rising so does this mean the huricanes and other storms are just going to continure to get worse? I can’t even imagine the weather getting much worse than what it is now. The hurricanes in the past few years have wiped whole cities out. If they keep getting worse I can not even imagine the tradgedies that are going to occur.

He also said that the ten hottest years occurred during the last fourteen years. He said that 200 cities in the west hit all time record highs. I don’t know what people are going to do if it gets much hotter than what it has been. If it gets much hotter there are going to be more droughts and possibly more wildfires in the west.

It just seems like our country is worried about so many other issues that this one is overlooked. I guess I was guilty of this too. I just wish everyone could watch this movie and realize how big of a deal this really is. This really scares me.

I think that there needs to be more awareness on global warming. Before I watched this documentary I did not think that global warming was that big of a deal. Now I realize if something is not done about this issue, its going to continue to just keep getting worse. I would encourage anybody that I know to watch this movie. It is a very serious issue that people need to know about. If everyone could come together and work against global warming we could put a stop to it.