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Today is September seventeenth two thousand and eight, we just got done watching a movie in English class, and the movie is called “An Inconvenient Truth” . What the movie is called really isn’t important it is what the movie or I guess you can call it a documentary is what it entails. The opening scene is of a beautiful stream that could be right in your backyard that’s how common it is. I guess that really isn’t important either. What really is important is Al Gore opening statement he makes to this entire room of people. He says “It isn’t isn’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble, it is what we know” which struck me as odd. I think here is a former Vice-President of the United States of America the most powerful country in the world telling me that our knowledge will get us into trouble. I find that troubling in itself, I’ve always thought that knowledge was power, the more I knew the better I would be for my family and the better a life I would have for the future, now I’m just not so sure anymore, and here is why.

What is Global Warming? That is a common question these days in the classroom, and to many people it has different meaning, most know the same facts but it means different things to people. Some think it is just a government conspiracy while others see it as a real threat. What does it mean to you? To me Global Warming is a bigger problem then I ever thought it to be, I mean I knew it was a very bad thing that the people of today’s world were trying to fix but never did I see it to be this big of a problem. Just a little fact that I’m sure everyone already know what it never hurts to hear more then once, you know that co2 makes the ozone thicker correct? Well I bet you didn’t know that because of the admissions of our cars and trucks the co2 levels are going up and up they are actually almost off a chart that we have used since 1970, or the start of this becoming a big problem, and due to that the ice caps are melting, I know you’ve already heard that, but it is true. The western ice shelf in Antarctica is supposed to be one of the largest in the world yet it is slowly becoming smaller, and it keeps breaking off into the waters of the ocean. We can’t afford to have all that ice that is stored down there to melt and drain into the ocean, that will cause ocean levels to rise more then 25 feet, that is over half the cost of Florida and San Francisco, yah that will not be there anymore it will be under water, not to mention New Orland’s which already has most of its city under sea level.

We keep having worse hurricanes then the year before last, have you ever stopped to think why? I know our scientist have, they knew how bad the storms will get, and they told us what the damages would be. The storms keep getting stronger because the oceans are becoming warmer, they are getting that way because the suns uv rays are going right into the water instead of reflecting off and back into space, thus causing the water temperatures to rise. In India the summer of 2005 was the hottest summer that they had ever had in recorded time it was 122’F that was also for a period of days, and that was the average, not just the day. Which wasn’t even that past two years, I would like to know what the record is now?

I guess what I’m trying to say is something needs to change, we have the technology to make the world a better, more efficient place, why aren’t we? Also if we are one of the smartest nations why are we the biggest contributor to this problem we emit over 30.3% of the earth’s co2 levels and we don’t even have the biggest population. They say that old habits and old technology isn’t a bad thing, but what happens when you have new technology and you are still fighting old habits? We should all do something to help the planet, and I’m not a tree hugger but this is home, we only have one planet people. So what will you do? Are you going to change. Here is a website that you should check out if you care at all about the place you live, willyoujoinus.com . If you believe in pray, pray that people find the strength to change.