For years it has become a very famous beer keg price and thoroughly discussed. Is it real or is it garbage generated by uninformed scare strategists trying to suppress free enterprise? Changing weather patterns around the world suggest that the land can be in the middle of a cycle of global warming. Scientific evidence shows that the temperature of the earth is gradually increasing and climate change are being felt in regions around the world later. Already we are seeing moderate to higher sea level. The storms are becoming more serious. Areas not normally receive rainfall is well documented above normal precipitation. The areas that normally experience good levels of rainfall are less and less.

The ozone layer over the South Pole is running out, allowing more sunlight to penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere contributes to global temperature increase, which the ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctica melt at levels not seen thousands of years. The glaciers in various places in the world that was believed to be semi-permanent non-melting and retreating at an alarming rate. The implications are enormous and potentially devastating humanity. Half to two thirds of the population lives in low-lying coastal areas or to be eliminated entirely by the rising waters caused by melting polar ice caps of Earth. Society as we know it could not be totally devastated. The main coastal cities to completely remove or at least partially or completely uninhabitable. Agriculture severely compromised. World trade severely disrupted. And the higher the temperature of fastest growing effect of the earth is amplified.

Quite a scary scenario for our future and our coming generations future. But what is causing this phenomena? Is it all part of some sort of natural cycle of the earth or is it somehow being caused or at least intensified by the way we live and use and abuse the resources of our planet? It is very possible that it is part of a normal cycle of climate changes that the earth has experienced since it was created. The earth has gone through numerous climate changes including ice ages and periods of tropic and Sub-tropic forestation since it was created and started to evolve. But it is also quite possible that this warming cycle is being amplified by human interaction with the atmosphere which protects the earth.

What can we as individuals do to help stem this rise in the pollution of our atmosphere and the possible contribution to global warming caused by the use of fossil fuels as our principal means of running our societies? First we can demand that our governments work on developing more earth friendly forms of energy. Wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of energy which don’t emit harmful toxins into the atmosphere. Second, we can make changes in our personal lives which will help reduce the amount of pollution we as individuals create. The largest culprit among us is the cars we drive. Cars which use fuels which are improperly formulated to burn properly because oil companies formulate their fuels to only burn efficiently enough to actually allow our cars to operate, so that they can make as much money as they can off of their products without regard to the consequences to our planet.