Climate Change

Climate change has been induced by natural and man made factors.  Our insistent need for energy and our obsession with consumption of trivial objects has had a substantial effect on the world's climate.  It is also the release of natural Carbon Dioxide and Methane emissions that has had an immense effect on the world's climate.  Temperatures are rising, ice caps are melting, and habitats are beginning to escape.  Who is to blame?  We discovered in class that there have not been very many reliable explanations of climate change or global warming.  We are sort of limited to extreme views that leave little room for truth and neutral explanation.  The media has created very strong opposing views in order to explain global warming.  Extremists on either end have dictated the way the American public views climate change.  Without a balanced explanation of what global climate change is and why it has (really) been occurring.  Unfortunately, without a neutral and balanced explanation of the issue we cannot be expected to truly care or make a change.  Although I may not see the immediate repercussions of climate change the generations that come after me will have serious cleaning up to do.  That is, if we make it to another generation.  Climate change has the potential to put cities and states underwater.  It can also displace and kill off plants, animals, and their habitats.  This could have a massive effect on usable resources.