Effects of Global Warming
You probably learned a little bit about global warming from Al Gore’s popular documentary An Inconvenient Truth. And even though some of the evidence presented in his power point presentation has since been discredited, it doesn’t really undermine the fact that we are, in fact, deeply enmeshed in a global warming situation.
It’s not that our planet’s atmosphere is becoming super-heated (as some infer from the term “global warming”). The truth is that the greenhouse gases we spew en masse into the atmosphere have begun to affect our weather patterns, making them more extreme.
So yes, there are going to be times when the temperature climbs higher. Summers may be hotter and last longer. But winter temperatures could also be lower than normal, and rain, snow, and other types of storms (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, etc.), could be longer-lasting, more intense, and occur more frequently; that’s the real result of global warming. Continue reading
In today’s energy markets, debate and innovation reign supreme. As the time of peak oil quickly fades into the proverbial rear view mirror, deep sea drilling and ever-more dangerous and less efficient means of discovering new deposits of oil reserves become the norm.
With the last few years’ worth of man-made environmental devastation and destruction as their fuel, a wide-reaching coalition of protesters raised the attention of the U.S. EPA. It seems the department’s recent approval of Shell Oil’s Kulluk drilling unit air permit (Nov. 28, 2011), was another in a long line of “last straws.”
It was almost amazing to travel from Portland down to Los Angeles earlier this month, after having only been gone for a year and a half, not a day more. Why? Simply put, the culture shock. And it’s the little things too, not just the awful behavior of most motorists, either.
