# 25 Climate Change

Fox News would have you believe that Al Gore and his global warming ideas are all wet. The far right has taken to building igloos in Washington to show the world that he is crazy..After all the eastern part of the country has been inundated with record breaking cold, snow, or rain fall. What does he know! Strip him of his Nobel prize..

Here is what he knows along with thousands of the worlds foremost scientists. The earth is warmer now by 1 degree Fahrenheit and in the last century there are more greenhouse gases, CO2 and others, in our atmosphere then any time in the past 650,000 years. Before the industrial revolution in the 1700's there was an natural balance of green house gases in our atmosphere that were absolutely necessary for keeping the surface of the earth warm enough for habitation of all it's species. Now with the burning of fossil fuels by man, the increase of CO2 into the atmosphere is up 31 percent over pre-industrial levels. With this increase of CO2 the earth's temperature will continue to rise, creating extreme weather patterns and catastrophic natural occurrences, like fire, drought, and flooding.

This piece is about Climate Change. The greenhouses gases are heating up the atmosphere and that added temperature is heating the oceans causing the water to evaporate and rise as vapor into the atmosphere. There, it is moved by the gulf stream and other air masses around the planet. What goes up must come down and depending on the time of year the vapors convert back to either rain or snow and fall in great quantities to the earth. I've tried to show this reality in this Climate Change piece.