(#4957) Global warming is going to kill us all if we don't stop our part in it!

      It is going to be over 110 degrees here in Sacramento, California this week in the early part of the month of September. I cannot tell you how crazy this is. In the past days approaching 100 degrees were not as frequent as they are now. So by saying that I am trying to establish in your minds that the temperatures here are steadily rising. Now it may be just a natural occurrence as weather patterns historically have fluctuated. Yet in those historical studies the natural occurrence mode is not alone in determining our heat indexes. We have physics, science and math to help us as tools to discover the actions of  we ourselves and how that effects our ecosystem.
     Those tools have been telling us for decades that greenhouse gases that are trapped in our atmosphere are causing the heat from the sun to reflect back down onto the Earth more frequently. Normally those heat rays from the sun would bounce off the Earth and head back out into space. Not anymore as we keep burning fossil fuels and gases that reduce the excess heat from traveling back out into space. This is how the greenhouse effect came to be know in climate studies. In a greenhouse, temperatures can be raised artificially to help grow plants at managed temperatures. Well in our climate example this inadvertent creation of a greenhouse effect shielding in our atmosphere is causing the temperatures to rise above what is relatively normal.
     When we burn carbon products the residue from the burn is left in our atmosphere to act as an enclosure for keeping heat in. We need to stop adding to that enclosure so that heat can begin to travel back out into space and thereby reduce atmospheric temperatures back to traditional normal ranges. We have to turn the heat down and to do that we need to stop adding certain carbon based fuel to the fire. Of course we need to wean our industries off of fossil fuels but we have known this for generations now and the major industries are not being good stewards of our planet so our government must help us to transition away from eventual death and back toward healthy air, water, and soil.