Is the temperature on the earth rising – undeniably! Is the level of carbon dioxide rising – Absolutely! Are the oceans rising – Easily seen! Are the glaciers and the ice cap melting – obviously! Are eco-systems rapidly changing – look out the window! Is the weather patterns getting more violent – watch the weather channel! Are we responsible – unequivocally!

Some time ago a reader said CO₂ wasn’t responsible because it wasn’t a big enough percentage of the air. That percentage is a delicate balance giving us the stability we have. A hair less and the glaciers come back or a hair more and we are in trouble. Some people say this is just a cycle and to some extent they are right. By looking at 600,000 years of air bubbles in glaciers, millions of years of sediment, and sedimentary rocks, we have a very good record of air composition. Before, the CO₂ changes were slow and took thousands of years to change the climate. That is scientific record!

Today’s changes are not over thousands of years but just a few years because our rapidly increasing population, world-wide increase in fossil fuels, and nature’s inability to counteract the increasing amount of CO₂ and tundra methane releases. We must help or risk extinction.

Since it is an absolute certainty we are causing the rise, how do we stop it before it is too late? We must stop cutting down trees. Instead, we need to plant billions of new ones. We must drastically reduce putting more CO₂ in the air. We must find ways to put more CO₂ into the ground or incorporate into something we make that will last centuries or longer. The oceans have always captured much of the excess where it is encapsulated and slowly falls to the depths. The oceans are not able to handle this much excess so we much reduce it ourselves or humanity is in real trouble.