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Questions and Answers on the Climate Crisis
“The Day After Tomorrow”: Could it really happen?
How does the movie stack up against the facts? Find out by clicking here
Is a Climate Crisis really happening?
Global warming is a reality: it’s happening right here, right now. According to scientists who study this kind of stuff, the Earth’s atmosphere is heating up at a rate faster than any time in history. Glaciers at the North Pole are melting. Sea levels are rising. Storms are intensifying. Heat waves, like the one that swept through Europe last summer, are longer and more deadly. Right now, we are in the middle of an unfolding climate crisis.
Click here to see a great chart showing how CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever, and how closely global temperatures follow CO2 levels.
Could it produce an Ice Age?
The abrupt events depicted in The Day After Tomorrow are pure Hollywood: scientists say a full-blown ice age could not happen today or anytime in the foreseeable future. But global warming could paradoxically create dangerously cold temperatures in some areas, while other parts of the world could suffer severe storms, extreme heat, floods, droughts and water shortages.
What's causing the Climate Crisis?
Here in the U.S., half the pollution that contributes to global warming can be traced to the cars and trucks we drive and coal-fired power plants. But global warming is not inevitable. Together we can turn it around. We have the expertise to make cars run on cleaner burning fuels and the resources to develop new technologies that will dramatically cut pollution and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs right here in America.
Why aren't we stopping it?
One man stands in the way of real progress towards stopping global warming: President George W. Bush. At every turn, President Bush has sided with his friends and big campaign contributors in the oil, coal and automobile industries instead of putting the health of people and the planet first.
What can I do?
Click here to tell President Bush and Congress to get serious about global warming. Tell them to support the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act.
Click here for a summary of what the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act would do.
Other Resources
Science Web Sites
The Woods Hole Research Center
Government and Inter-Governmental Sites
Environmental Protection Agency
Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA
Environmental Web Sites
Environmental Defense
Natural Resources Defense Council
Sierra Club
Union of Concerned Scientists
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