A Good Primer on The Science of Climate Change

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This report from Columbia University provides all of the information that is necessary to understand the forces that threaten our planet. Our parents did know how they were damaging the planet but we do. It is our responsibility to our children and our grandchildren to leave them with a habitable environment. We also have an obligation to the Souther Hemisphere which will suffer the brunt of the initial damages to our environment. The economic consequences of climate change are enormous but we have a moral obligation that transcends the economic cost.

This article gave me a much better understanding of the science and some of the ways that we might deal with the problems. We receive energy from the sun and we emit that energy out of our atmosphere when we are in balance. We cannot restore balance without reducing our consumption of fossil fuels but we can also make changes in agriculture and use reforestation to help the process as we make the transition from fossil fuels.