Being Hot, A Benefit? By Tyler Huddleston January 10, 2007

Tyler Huddleston – Being Hot, A Benefit?
Ultimately Californians can and will choose their atmosphere’s fate. Directing themselves in a new path, rather than the one they are on right now, can lead to less severe effects in the future. Emissions of catastrophic pollutants into the atmosphere from sources such as cars, factories, electricity plants, or lead contributes to the rapid pace at which global warming is increasing. Residents of California need to pave a path for the world and rest of the nation to follow by cutting down emission rates of harmful substances and finding alternative sources of power, that can perform the same tusk, in a cleaner way. In the year 2080, if Californians continue to pollute the atmosphere at the pace it is set today, catastrophic events will occur such as: a 90% loss of the Sierra Nevada snow pack, 2 feet rise in sea level, 4-6 times more heat-related, 20% energy need increase, and an increase of temperate of about 9 degrees Fahrenheit. All of these dilemmas will ruin California and diminish the high life expectancy California currently holds. Later this month the state of California is expected to pass strict, new laws on the problem of gasoline, and the burning of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gasses that are coming out of automobiles.
Many procedures can be followed to help reduce the magnitude of global warming. For instance replacing the household incandescent light bulb with a small, fluorescent light bulb not only gives off brighter light but helps save money on the electric bill, and on average keeps 700 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere over the bulb’s lifetime. Replacing your refrigerator with one that comes with the “Energy Star” label one it will use 15% less energy than the federal requirement, will save money on an electric bill, and will cut the release of carbon dioxide gas by one ton. Our world will become a far different place, that nobody will recognize. Leisurely activities around town will be limited due to extreme temperatures, and winter sports will come to a screeching, with no snow, the heart of people’s favorite past times such as skiing or snowboarding. This leads back to the issue of the local citizens. Do they know or care if the decisions they make now, will lead to deaths of thousands of people? Education is key, and people around the state as well as world need to be taught the effects of this pandemic, and learn ways to slow it down, so they can enjoy the world in which they live in. Do they care enough to make a change and see the improvements? Or will they be oblivious to the destruction of the world we live in, and ruin it for future generations to come. You decide.