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Global warming, what is it? Why it’s such a “hot” topic lately? Should I care? Many politicians said it’s just a myth. It’s only a myth, isn’t it? Well my friend, it’s a reality, as real as you and me. You know, my blog is about gadget and electronics, it’s absolutely has nothing to do with global warming, but somehow I feel compel and oblige to put some information about it because, IMHO, everybody who lives in the planet earth must at least aware about this phenomenon or later die wondering, don’t know what has been hitting him/her. Global warming is no joke!

According to Massachusetts EPP Glossary of Terms at Mass.gov,

Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth’s temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Earth may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. Greenhouse gases make the Earth warmer by trapping energy inside the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are any gas that absorbs infra-red radiation in the atmosphere…

If you do a search at Google, you’ll fine many more definition about global warming, but generally they all talk about the same thing, that is increase in the earth’s temperature. Here is a tip to find more definitions about global warming, use this keyword: “define: global warming” at Google, you’ll find a handful of global warming definition then.

I can talk for hours and write thousands of words an you’ll still don’t care about global warming, fortunately I’ve found a website that will definitely make you think twice and, hopefully, start thinking about what you can do to stop the ongoing climate change. Please give a bit of your time to visit this page: Runaway Greenhouse. Exit Mundi is a list of all the possible ways that our little race could suddenly stop existing. It’s written in a funny and easy to understand manner. Exit Mundi is one of my favorite sites. Here is an excerpt from the Runaway Greenhouse article as a teaser:

Phew! Aren’t we lucky? In the 1990s, they predicted we would get climate warming. The poles were about to melt, they said. Entire countries would get flooded. Huge hurricanes would sweep across the globe. Millions would die. Well: they had it all wrong. It’s the 21st century now — and little has happened so far.

But then, suddenly, it all changes. From one month to the next, the climate of the world goes wild. Temperatures jump. The ice caps of the poles crumble, pushing the sea levels up. The snow caps on the mountain tops melt, turning even the tiniest rivulet into a roaring body of water. Cities are flooded, countries washed away. Tornadoes and hurricanes push across the globe. Harvests fail. Economies crumble. Tropical diseases like malaria and dengue push northwards. Forests turn into deserts. And of course, millions of people perish during all the mayhem.

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One more article that I find very related to the climate change is Peak Oil Crash, after you read this you’ll find that taming the earth climate is really no simple task. The Earth climate is so delicate that if a certain balance threshold is tripped, it may beyond of human capabilities to balance it again. Welcome to chaotic earth. What is Oil Crash actually? Again Exit Mundi website will give you a very clear picture. Here is an excerpt from Oil Crash article:

The ‘Oil Peak’ is the point where the world’s oil supplies are exactly half used up. Yes, I felt some relief when I heard that for the first time, too. Apparently, after all these decades of industries and cars, we’ve still got half of all our oil supplies left! Put precisely: we started out with an estimated total of about 2 trillion barrels. And in 2003, some 900 billion of it had been used.

But there’s a downside. When an oil well is half empty, you’ll have to go through an increasing amount of trouble to pump the last bit up. Think of it like eating yogurt out of a carton. At first, you’ll have no trouble to bring out spoonfuls of yogurt at all. But after a while, you’ll carefully have to maneuver your spoon around along the sides and corners of the carton to bring the last bit out. In oil wells, it goes the same way.

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And even then, we’d have to have some luck. There’s a particularly nasty glitch in the theories even the economists don’t know about. For in fact, the biggest risk we’re facing is not even the Oil Crisis itself — but rather, the invention of some kind of new energy source!

Say we all stop using oil tomorrow. That would mean that suddenly, we will stop putting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. Now, this is probably not a good idea. Over the years, we’ve got huge amounts of green plants, plankton and algae on our planet, courtesy to the greenhouse effect. If we suddenly stop producing greenhouse gases, these plants and algae will suck all of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

This will kickstart an instant, all-out Ice Age, as our planet is robbed from its protective carbon dioxide ‘coat’. The Earth would freeze over. It would turn into a huge snowball.

Which one you prefer: an ultra-hot earth or a hyper-cold world? Your choice. Global warming is coming.