Changing Rains

-Naturally occurring climate changes have occurred for millennium. For example, in 4300 BC, it is believed that a drought brought about the end of the Fertile Crescent society. But the environment's changes now are not solely due to natural causes. Because warm air holds more moisture than cold air, with the global climate changes that are occurring, the rain patterns will change dramatically. This will have a large impact on farmers, and other people who depend on the rain patterns for their livelihood. The rains will come in more extremes and the dries will be drier and the wets will be wetter. But there is also a lot of variability that will occur year to year. The changing environment will create huge implications on the rain and its effect on mankind.
-I believe that the natural events that have already happened in our world should have been enough to concern people to change their ways. These events need to have changed the minds of politicians to act in a more environmental way. If we do not change our intrusion of ourselves into the environment, we could experience the changes on more personal levels. The ice storms and torrential rainfalls could become more common occurrences. The fact that warm air holds more moisture than cold air should be alarming for most people. If we know that a lot of moisture could be tied up, and suspended in the air instead of in our ecosystems, I would think that people would be more proactive in fixing this problem. This problem directly effects nearly every aspect of our lives. Unlike many other problems in politics, we are all the victims and the ones guilty for the crime. Not only that, but we are also able to fix our mistakes through a jointed effort to correct and clean our environment. Hopefully our politicians and representatives in Copenhagen will be able to get past the political differences and notice that our common cause should be enough to make us all on the same team. Due to the problem of increasing global climate change, we need to invest more time and effort in raising public awareness and finding the cure for the potential increase of moisture in our air. How should we convince the public that this is an important issue?

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Kolbert, Elizabeth . "Chainging Rains." National Geographic. Web. 11 Dec 2009. .



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