The heat is on!

Global Warming - It's real & it's here. If you haven't noticed, the temperature this past few days is as hot as a fever.
After so many years being in denial, a lot of people, including me have come to realize that the geeks led by Al Gore were right. That the earth is heating up. Hence the term "Global Warming".
If you saw "The Day After Tomorrow" or "The Inconvenient Truth", you have to be scared at our prospects.

The geek squad theorized that with the world's polpulation growing (6 billion people and counting) and their wasteful destruction of the planet's resources & their wanton burning of fossil fuels rapidly accelerate the build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

For the uninitiated, greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere. So the more of these stuff in the air, the hotter it will be. And consequently it doesn't take a genius to know that with this, more ice in the polar ice caps will melt resulting to rising sea levels & receding shorelines that will directly affect low-lying countries. Some experts has also identified Global Warming as the main reason why we have stronger typhoons now & a more prolonged wet & dry spells. Does Milenyo, Katrina, La Nina & El Nino ring a bell? No, they're not names of bimbos.

To think that Mother Earth gave us a break when Pinatubo erupted. The eruption lowered global temperatures by 2 degrees for two years as the sulfur ejected from the volcano enveloped the atmosphere. Now the sulfur are all gone. And we're back to our race to the boiling point. Literally.

What's funny is that people from poor countries like ours get to pay for all of the excessess of the developed world (US, Europe, Japan, etc.). Especially the US. What's more, the US with it as the biggest polluter of them all, has the gall to refuse ratifying the Kyoto Potocol that will set a cap on their carbon emissions. So typical of the ugly American. So arrogant & pompous. So while these Americans drive around on their gas guzzling SUVs, we're being toasted by the heat or getting drowned in flashfloods. I'm crossing my fingers here, I'm hoping they wouldn't endure another Katrina. But odds are, they will. And maybe then, they will finally go green. And when they do, will it be too late?

In the end, we cannot wait for these damn Americans to lead the way. We have to take it to ourselves to make a green revolution. Let's leave a lesser carbon footprint. i don't know, do it however you want. Either by planting more trees, carpooling, recycling, etc. Bottomline, just do it already. Every little thing we do will add up.