Global Warming Articles
Climate Change: Just deal with it?
Summary -This article was written by Alan Zarembo and it is about a cheaper way of fighting global warming. A man named Roger A Pielke Jr. is an environment policy expert and he has an idea of coping with global warming and adapting rather than spending trillions of dollars on fighting it. He thinks that the effects of global warming are not as bad as some scientists think they are. There is other scientists who say that if we could just simply adapt to something like global warming, then it would of already happened, instead the climate keeps changing.
Response – I think that if global warming was as easy as that to fix then we would not be worried about it. We can adapt to it as much as we can as it comes but I don’t think we can just solve the whole problem just like that. We should do other things to reduce climate change.
Global Warming Rushes Timing of Spring
Summary - This article was written by Seth Borenstein an AP Science Writer. He is talking about how global warming is affecting the timing of spring every year. Spring keeps coming at different times every year he says. He says this messes things up for animals who have a biological clock that runs by season. There is a lot more pollen in the air at and earlier time than normal to.
Response - I don’t mind this because I like spring so spring could come early every year and I would not complain.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Alec–
I’m interested in this article that says that spring is coming earlier. While I’m with you on liking spring, I don’t think that it’s healthy for the change to happen so drastically–don’t you think there’s a reason that the plants and animals that live in an area, live there instead of somewhere else. For example, why wouldn’t grizzly bears live in South Florida?
One thing I’ve noticed this year is that my lilac bush bloomed in the middle of winter (just one or two flowers) and now is much later in it’s real bloom (usually by my birthday it is in full bloom–and my birthday is on Thursday, just so you know!)
So perhaps we shouldn’t think only about our preferences and think about the environment as a whole–or we could move to San Diego