The Environmental Defense Fund states that: "Studies show that global warming will increase the frequency or intensity of many kinds of extreme weather. While we can't attribute a particular heat wave or hurricane to global warming, the trends are clear: Global warming loads the atmospheric dice to roll 'heat wave' or 'intense storm' more often." Please go here for the complete article and related resources: http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagid=1405&source=ggad&gclid=CPeOpq-y-pMCFQahiQodEQurWA
Democracy Now! reports: "The words 'extreme weather' are rarely associated in the mainstream media with another two words: "global warming." But scientists argue that these extreme weather events are consistent with changes they have long predicted would accompany global warming. Amy Goodman speaks to Joseph Romm of http://www.climateprogress.org/ and Perry Beeman of the Des Moines Register." Please go here to join Amy Goodman and Listen/Watch/Read: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/16/extreme_weather_global_warming
It has been amazing to me that there are still those who debate the existence of global warming. It is like debating that the Earth is flat. Gratefully, most recognize that it is greed which mobilizes behind this debate rather than fact. And there is, in my perspective, both a frightening and a hopeful side of this enormous issue we call global warming -- and that is exactly that global warming does threaten us all. No matter where we live and who we are - no matter what our nationality or religion, our gender or age, our race or ethnicity, our politics or sexual orientation or socio-economic class - all of humankind is threatened. Global warming knows no red states or blue states, no national borders, no Us or Them.
While presenting profound danger to life on Earth, there is also indeed this great potential opportunity and blessing to recognize that we are all in this together. The illusion of separateness disintegrates as this awareness and knowledge is experienced ... in our hearts. My vision is that generations to come will look back upon This Time as the Great Turning in which the crises of our day pushed humanity to a tipping point, a place in our evolution as a species in which we united behind the knowing that we all matter, we are all sacred, we are all connected, and we are capable of joining together to act on the behalf of all our brothers and sisters on Earth.
And once this tipping point is achieved, and indeed it is - I believe - right now Today, all things will be possible.
Peace and blessing,
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