What’s wrong with our weather (1)
1998 has been the hottest year on record. Under the summer skies, the driest and hottest since the 1930s Dust Bowl, crops failed from New Jersey to California. In the water starved Mississippi River, dredges dug non-stop to keep open a channel fro boats. A record breaking heat wave closed Harvard University near Boston, while in Detroit, wholesale replica designer handbags, auto workers walked off the job when some workstation temperatures exceeded 100 degrees F.later, in the fall, the century’s fiercest hurricane swept through the Caribbean.
Something strange is happening to our weather. And it didn’t just begin this year. During the past two decades, the United States has seen three of the coldest winter and five of the warmest average years ever recorded. Elsewhere weather has also been extreme: the former Soviet Union and India have experienced their highest temperatures ever, wholesale designer handbags and snow has been falling on the usually sunny beaches of the French Riviera, South Africa and even subtropical Brazil.
Why is our weather going wild? Are we headed for the next lce age? Or are we feeling the first fevers of the “greenhouse effect”, a global warming that could melt the polar icecaps and turn the world landscape into a combination of tropical jungles and deserts? Scientists have several theories, no single one of which offers a satisfactory reason for our strange weather. Together, however, they begin to explain the climate puzzle.
Greenhouse Gas. When we burn fossil fuels (principally coal and oil) we send extra quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, since 1958, wholesale coach handbags, the proportion of CO2 in our air has risen 25 percent. Many scientists think that within a century this simple gas could devastate our world.
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