Climate Change – Are we in Dire Striaghts

I have recently reviewed a You-Tube® video called the most important video you will ever see.  It has made me think and conclude that we truly need to all be thinking more about our future generations.  Though I am not sure that the video gave any conclusive ideas on what to do to help us with this climate change.  So i would like to start this blog as a grass roots effort to get people to give ideas and a call to action to start doing everything we can to clean our air so we don’t end up destroying much of the life we have made for future generations.

Here is an exert from a website:http://www.climatecrisis.net/thescience/

The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.2
	Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.3
	The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.4
	At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.5

If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.

	Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years — to 300,000 people a year.6
	Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.7
	Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
	Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
	The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.8
	More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.9

Blow are some things that I am vowing to do to make our planet better before it’s too late.

1.  Plastic Bags/Paper Bags.  Get a Cloth Bag or carry your groceries to your car in the basket and load them in and out by hand.  I saw a power point on how much we waste these things that are made from oil!  If we reduce the number that we use, then we can cut down on the making of them and the pollution caused from them. This is a small thing, but on a global scale it will help.  I am not saying don’t use them , but only for necessary things.  Do we really need to put our garbage in plastic bags?  Or the things we recycle?

2. Driving Less.  Car pool, ride the train, what ever you have to do to, just make the trips less.

2a Check your tire pressure.  It really helps

3. Since Coal is used to produce electricity, using less electricity in everything is another way to help.

3.a. Change your light bulbs to LED Lights.

3b. Turn off electrical devices

4 Recycle – you can save around 2400 lbs of co2 a year

5 Plant a tree.  Goes with out saying.  Have more plants.

6. recycle!

7. Adjust your thermostat – just two degrees in summer and winter and you can save 2000 lbs of carbon dioxide from entering the air each year.

8. you can save 1,200 lbs of CO2 just by Avoiding excessive packaging.. (goes with my no plastic bags rule)

Basically anything that can reduce our use of energy and gas is good.  And just think about it you will be saving money, too.

So far these are the things I have come up with.  I do think that there are more ways out there and I would love to hear from you.

I will say that I am happy to share some of the sites that breath an air of relief to my fears.  We are on the right track if we all do our part.

A site on how we are working toward a small solution to the air problrm

http://www.physorg.com/news96732819.html

Not so promising but hopeful

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/S2P