Sunday, December 6, 2009

Climate Change Is It Really ALL In Our Control?

Today Kerri, Hope spent a quiet sunday afternoon attempting to watch a documentary movie called An Inconvenient Truth.  I say attempted to watch this movie because we got a dud DVD and it died half way through. We got the gist of though.

Al Gore wrote and starred in this movie.  He won awards for it too.  I had never heard of it, lol. 

An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006 and talked extensively about global warming (now called climate change).  Al Gore talks about how there is much more carbon dioxide being produced now then in the past and that this will continue to rise as we continue to use harmful emissions and so forth.

It was no surprise that there will be, sometime along the line a shift in our climate and possibly someday when our earth will no longer be able to sustain life.  This shift is already happening.  Kerri makes a lot of sense saying how can we say, as the movie says, that out lifestyles and industries are going to contribute to our own demise when our planet has already been shifting for centuries! 

I think it's safe to say that we are responsible but not completely responsible for ALL the climate change that has been happening. 


If you look at rock formations all over the world, there are places such as this at the Louis Leakey museum over looking the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Africa.  I took this picture a year and a half ago.  Here, you can clearly see the water lines on the rock formations where all the water is now gone.   This process took 10 000 years.

In Canada there are the famous Flower Pot rock formations in New Brunswick.  The rocks are narrow at the base and larger where it was once above water.  There is a tide that still comes in for the flower pot rocks but it still clearly shows that our world does shift over years and years.

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