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Climate Change - CBS 60 Minutes [March 20 2006]
15 years ago when I was being taught in elementary-school about "green house gases" I thought it was alarmist left-wing environmentalists trying to scare the corporatists.
10 years ago in high school when scientists where screaming murder about "global warming", again I believed that the socialists were at work, trying to stifle big business, restrict trade for the good of organized labour.
I now believe that this environmental science is not the work of special interest groups manipulating information. Our environment is changing, something is at work here - and it is up to us to look into it, find it's cause and do something about it for the greater good of mankind. It may or may not be caused by man, but not acting to understand what is happening is no longer an acceptable solution
Tonight on the CBS television show 60 Minutes, they aired an episode about the
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On Sunday March 20, 2006 60 Minutes aired a report on how NASA's top climate scientist Jim Hansen says that the "the speed of the natural changes is now dwarfed by the changes that humans are making to the atmosphere and to the surface" and that "those human changes are driven by burning fossil fuels that pump out greenhouse gases like CO2, carbon dioxide." Hansen says his research shows that man has just 10 years to reduce greenhouse gases before global warming reaches what he calls a tipping point and becomes unstoppable.
I encourage you to read this article. Avoid the easy trap of making it a partisan "white house censorship" article. Understand what the article is really about - the environment and the danger that we face.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006...in1415985.shtml
Look at the weather around us. The winter (or lack of) that we've had, the hot summers - something is up with our environment. If it is made made, we need to stop it right away. If it is not, then our efforts to live a cleaner, healthier life are still to our long term benef9it.
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