Buffalo Boy's Blog

I will be tuned in tonight to The National Geographic for 6 Degrees Could Change the World, a documentary about what could happen if we allow global warming to continue unchecked. Some would say hog wash, why listen to scientists, the Earth warms all the time and cools and has its cycles,

I say if you pay attention to your doctor then you are listening to a scientist who knows about the human body, scientists who study this phenomenon while trying to predict what is happening on a global scale may not be right in terms of locations that will be greatly affected but they have a broad picture about what we are going to experience if this thing continues and we don't start thinking cleaner sources of fuel and decreasing how we treat the planet. They are diagnosing the Earth that is sick.

The signals are already there, last summer we saw that the rate of melt in the arctic is worse than expected, the ice on Greenland, the ice melt that is of real concern with increasing global sea levels is melting faster than expected and coral reefs and tropical rain forests are already showing signs of stress and in some areas the tropical rain forests are beyond the point of no return due to slash and burn methods and urbanization.

So, I will be watching this because A) it interests me and B) its another perspective on what is probably going to happen unless we change our consumption of resources and how we live. Even if we do change we are probably going to see some damage before it gets better. These are the trailers for tonights program:

This last one, talks about what we can do. Most of it, is common sense, things that my mother used to yell at me for, turn off the lights if you are not in your room, turn off the TV if no one is watching it. Simple stuff that many Americans take for granted....