If you have read the news this week, one would have discovered the new term “Polar Vortex” that is sweeping across America now. This phenomenon has caused temperatures to drop like a brick into historical, never before lows.
Certain parts of US just experienced -40 degrees (all temperatures referenced in this blog are in Celsius) – that is negative forty, which is even colder than the Arctic. Chicago is wind bitting cold at -20 and everyone has been warned to stay indoors. Even the police are advising criminals to abstain from committing a crime as it may prove to be deadly for their health… No one should be outside for even a few minutes in this weather.
Is it me or has the weather gone bonkers? Does Trump need more proof that global warming is happening or are we all waiting for mother earth to blow up first before admitting that the problem is real?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47078054
His tweet questioning global warming shows how ignorant he is. I cannot believe that the most powerful person in the world, who thinks he is the smartest man on earth, is such a total embarrassment to the Americans.
He probably cannot even identify where Australia is located on the global map. Australia is experiencing the opposite now as temperatures rocket to historical highs. Adelaide just hit +47 degrees and fishes are dying everywhere in rivers. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/31/asia/australia-heat-wave-analysis-intl/index.html
Weather forecasters are predicting that America will return to +20 next week. That will be a variance of almost 40 degrees in 1 week! Imagine freezing your butt off this week and then bringing out your T-shirts and Bermudas the following week, all at the same location… It does not take a primary school kid to recognise that something is seriously wrong with the climate today.
Two opposite sides of the earth are experiencing historical high and low temperatures AT THE SAME TIME! Earth’s ecosystem is trying to tell us something, yes? Are we blind to the call for help by mother earth?
It saddens me that teenagers need to be up in arms now to try to save the world, as the adults in the room are doing nothing. They are concerned that the world that they will inherit in the future will be a bleak one because no one wants to do something about the problems that are so evident now.
In the recent annual Davos event, a 16-year-old Swedish teenager made her plea to the world to act now. Greta Thunberg took time off from school to specially go to Davos to speak to the world elites, to wake them up.
Her words are chilling to hear. A sample of her speech below :
“Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.”
“I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. We owe it to the young people, to give them hope. I want you to act … as if the house was on fire. Because it is.”
What happened to the adults in the room on climate change? Almost the whole world agrees that this is a problem until Trump says screw it. How much evidence do we need before we realize that it is real? Some say that it will revert back to its norm/mean and that global warming is a hoax that has been around for years. Do we really want to take the risk? We only have one earth, one silver bullet. Do we want to risk all and ignore the red flags? What would our grandchildren say? That we did not lift a finger to protect the future?
Mother Gaia is telling us something. The recent abnormal temperature swings are not normal.
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