I know people who deny that there is climate change going on.  We would get in fights over this issue because they would tell me that Global Warming is not really happening and I would say yes it is happening.  They would say it is a natural event of the world getting warmer and that we have other issues to fight for first.  I would say that there are several reasons for Climate Change. 1. Manmade 2. natural 3. and I believe Solar flares as the sun is getting warmer.

To me it doesn’t really matter what is causing Climate Change as much as what are we all doing to do to stop the drastic effects from happening.  We know that climate change is real so what are we going to do about it.  We shouldn’t be fighting on if Climate change is really happening because everyone should be able to see that it is happening.  We should be putting our heads together and trying to find solutions to what we can do to deal with it.

I read this article and I thought it was a good article.  I saw a program on Polar Bears not to long ago and the struggles they are having just to survive.  I see the climate change all around me and yet there are many people in this country who are in denial.  Are they in denial because they believe what they are being told or they fear it will change their lifestyle to much?   

Global warming could invite sharks to Antarctica: biologists

by: AFP    18 February 2008

Global warming could make Antarctic waters more inviting to crabs and sharks that would threaten the frigid continent’s unique ecosystem, biologists warned Friday.

Antarctica’s waters remain too cold for crabs, sharks and other fish to survive in, but global warming has already caused temperatures to increase by one to two degrees Celsius over the past 50 years, said University of Rhode Island biology professor Cheryl Wilga.

Few predators capable of crushing shelled animals live in Antarctic waters, Wilga told a news conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

“As a result, the Antarctic seafloor has been dominated by relatively soft-bodied, slow-moving invertebrates, just as in ancient oceans prior to the evolution of shell-crushing predators,” she said on the sidelines of the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“The water only needs to remain above freezing year round for it to become habitable to some sharks, and at the rate we’re going, that could happen this century,” Wilga said.

“Once they get there, it will completely change the ecology of the Antarctic benthic community,” she said.

Crabs have already gotten very close to the Antarctic ecosystem, said Sven Thatje of National Oceanography Center in Southampton, Britain, who warned of a potentially catastrophic situation.

“That would be a tragic loss for biodiversity in one of the last wild places on Earth,” he said, warning that global warming could destroy Antarctica’s marine life if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed.