November 24, 2009

Climate change - are humans to blame?




Mum says that there are some people who think that the climate isn’t changing because of what humans are doing. Some people think climate change is just natural and that it would happen anyway. Some people think that all the pollution that is being pumped into the atmosphere and the rivers every day, and all the dumping of toxic waste, all the litter, all the cars that are being driven, all the waste that every human produces each day – all of that makes no difference.



Well, we believe it DOES make a difference. Those folk who say it doesn’t make a difference don’t live up here in the Arctic. They don’t see all the changes that mum sees.

Due to climate change over a hundred thousand animal species have been made extinct this year. Extinct means “all gone” – so that means they will never come back. That’s a shame.

Ten million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into the environment by industries this year. Mum says that lots of those chemicals can make you humans really ill. We don’t know how much a million is because we can only count to ten, but we bet it’s a lot.

Did you know that today the sun’s energy striking earth will be over 16 billion MWh?



Did you know that there is enough energy coming from the sun each day to power the whole world? The energy that comes from the sun is free. And it doesn’t pollute anything, so why don’t you humans use more of it? Only 7% of energy coming from renewable sources like the sun is used by the world each day, the rest comes from things that aren’t renewable, like coal, oil, gas and stuff like that. Things that pollute the atmosphere.


Did you know that this year alone 20 billion tons of CO2 has been pumped into the atmosphere?

We reckon that those folk who say that climate change isn’t happening because of what humans are doing are simply fooling themselves. Mum says they’ve got their head stuck in the snow, or is it sand? Anyhow, mum says they just don’t want to know because they don’t want to accept responsibility. Mum says that people should act now, whilst they’ve got the chance. If everyone did just a little bit more than they’re already doing, it would make a big difference. We want our world to stay clean, as clean and as lovely as the photo below.