Al Gore

Our Last class, we watched Al Gore's presentation on climate change at TED talk. As i mentioned before TED talk is very knowlegdable nonprofit website, and the main goal is to get the word out to everyone about everything. The only thing they don't like to put up is political things, with an exception of Michelle Obama, which we discussed before in class.
Al Gore, style of presenting an arguement is remarkable. I was reminded of Colin Powell, when I was watching Gore's presentation. They both have a similar style of speaking and they have this leadership charisma that atracts attention from the viewers. Gore, presented many concerns that e have a lready discussed in our class. He talked about e verything from recycling cans to the loss of ice masses around the world. The most interesting thing that he does is show the pictures of the extremely climate affected places, like the land becoming desert, and some with ice masses raising the water level.
My main interest was Greenland, so I did some research and I found that "the temperature in Greenland have risen 4.4 degrees F in the two decades". (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920193210.htm). This website article is from science direct journal, and it predicts that if this increase in temperature continues then the northern hemisphere will be severly effected. The same is true for the ice sheets in antarctica. But in Antarctica the rate is unknown. Another article posted on, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange, also talks about the effects of this massive melting, but here the writer, paul brown, concentrates on the physical damage. He states that the melting of the ice at such high rate is triggering earthquakes and large peices, several cubic kilometers, are breaking off.
What can we do? Our governemnt needs to start taking this topic seriously, and have a plan to execute. We need to be like Cuba, and start community gardens, and conserving energy in order to keep the pollution down and our air clean. We can't elimate pollution, because then we couldn't function. In my microeconomics textbook, we were talking about negative externalities, and pollution was the main topic. In that it stated that even environmentalists don't believe we need to be pollution free, we just need to take what is efficient for the total social benifit, not our own benifit. We need to walk to the corner market insteasd of driving to it. We need to stop burning fuel if we don't have to.
If everyone does there part, as Al Gore states, we can prevent these climate changes and our future generations can enjoy a somewhat clean environment.