Global Warming Boom

Posted by Ivan Garcia on January 27th, 2007 filed in global warming, opinion

In 2007, global warming will be one of the most discussed topics in the world. News articles are popping up everywhere, arguing the progress of global warming. Have we reached a tipping point, where one day the problem didn’t matter and the next it’s seemingly at the top of everyone’s mind? There is little doubt we’re in the midst of one on global warming and the environment.
Paris is forecast to be unseasonably warm next Friday and the current long-term prediction is 8 degrees, significantly above the historic high for early February of closer to 5. Perfect weather to welcome the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report on our warming planet, a document that will be released which will lay to waste any remaining doubts that human activity is causing the globe to warm at an unprecedented rate.
Recently, the environment was cited as the top issue by 26 per cent of respondents surpassing health care, now the No. 2 issue, at 18 per cent. The effect is also being felt on the street.When you look out the window these days, you see global warming, no snow or ice. An overwhelming 78 per cent of respondents, nearly four out of five people, say they’ve personally noticed climate change.
The same political shift is being felt in Washington, where the cherry blossoms were months early and the Congress now has more than a dozen climate-change laws before it. If the momentum on the environment seems large now, it’s likely to be unstoppable as 2007 progresses.

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