In my physical geography class we were learning about CO2 and global warming so our teacher decided to show us the movie by Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth. I thought it would be really boring but it wasn’t half bad. The one thing that really stuck with me was when he said that out of like 900 peer-edited articles from scientists, or experts in the field, 0 of them said that global warming was not real. But when you ask people, almost half of them believe global warming is not real or that its not going to affect us.
Its unbelievable because people refer to articles they have read, and they believe the experts are still arguing about the truth, but in reality experts know its real, but the public is being misinformed. It is also crazy to see how our lives have an impact on our planet. Photos taken twenty or thirty years ago of glaciers and snowy mountaintops drastically differ from photographs of the same place that are taken today. Glaciers have completely melted away or receded, and some mountaintops are now barren. And also look at the movies, like The Day After Tomorrow, there is some truth to those scenarios.
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