Climate-Change-Events

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Perhaps part of the reason that the debate about whether or not human actions have contributed to what could very well be a disastrous climate change are the predicted events that have already come to pass. Climate Change Events Are At Our Doorstep People all over the world are now experiencing the kind of extreme weather that was once experienced as events that only occurred every few centuries. Five hundred-year floods, for instance, have occurred in the Mississippi River Valley twice in the last twenty years. Fire frequency threatens live, property and wildlife in the arid western part of North America at rates not seen in recorded history. Crop failures are up and pathogens are on the move. The price of food has skyrocketed and still the weather continues to just be strange all over the world. Perhaps most dramatic were the climate change events of Hurricane Katrina that saw a major US city nearly destroyed by a single storm. Learning From Past Mistakes How would we like to turn back the clock to a time before the polar ice caps started to melt? What about before there was a hole in the ozone layer? There are a lot of people who can think of many catastrophic environmental disasters that they'd like to avoid by getting into a time machine and altering poor decisions on climate change. While it's not possible to go back and make changes, we do have the power to change our future. Our destiny looks a bit bleak at the moment with the state of the world as it is. Climate change, pollution, climbing oil prices and food shortages are frightening. We have the power to buy better products, be better consumers, better parents and better citizens of the earth. We can get knowledgeable about the state of the earth and about what needs to change.