If a picture is worth 1000 words - take a look at what 2000 would do for you!

By Pepper Parr

June 12th, 2106

BURLINGTON, ON

GLOBAL WARMING –

We hear about it every day.

There are still those who think it isn’t happening.

It is happening – the two pictures that follow make that clear enough for the most doubting.

This isn’t a theory – these are facts.

Alaska’s Pedersen Glacier has retreated steadily over the past century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This photo, taken during the summer of 1917, shows a lagoon filled with icebergs. The bottom photo, dated August 2005, shows the same lagoon now filled with sediment, grasses and shrubs.

Alaska’s Pedersen Glacier has retreated steadily over the past century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.  This photo, dated August 2005, shows the same lagoon now filled with sediment, grasses and shrubs.

The projections are dire: glaciers will continue to shrink, heat waves will be more frequent and the oceans will get warmer and more acidic. A large majority of environmental scientists warn that if global temperatures rise by more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the consequences will be severe and, in some cases, irreversible.

By the end of the century, the panel says, CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions must register near zero — a mighty feat that some observers say is simply not achievable.

What happens then?

Vince Fiorito, one of the most committed environmentalists we know once said to me: Pepper, don’t worry about the planet – it will survive. It is we human beings hat may not be able to survive on the plant we create because of our poor stewardship.

CBC has published an interactive WORD on their web site

CLICK HERE to get to it.
Every household in the city would be well served if they spent half an hour on this instead of watching a television show. At this point it is still our world – do we get to keep it and pass it along to our children and their grand children?