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More evidence of global warming
Are we all doing enough?
Nobody cannot have noticed the extreme weather in America this week. Deep cold, snow, and ice in regions that are normally much warmer this time of the year, and an emergency situation declared in Texas.
What a year 2020 has been for many reasons.
Australia had the worse forest fires they have ever seen with thousands of acres of forest destroyed, hundreds of thousands of animals killed, and in some parts of Australia, almost entire animal populations wiped out. I certainly remember seeing wombats with burnt paws, in pain, and fire-damaged kangaroos in wildlife rescue centres.
Last year in the UK saw record-breaking summer temperatures too. And it’s not the first really hot summer we’ve seen in recent years. They are occurring more often. Only 3 years ago we had the coldest winter in decades with 4 months of ice and snow, and bitterly cold temperatures in February, euphemistically called, ‘the beast from the east’.
Then there are the receding Arctic and Antarctica ice shelves. Once huge glaciers are disappearing and ocean levels are rising. Polar bears are seeing their traditional habitats disappearing as ocean ice melts.
Despite these obvious signs of global warming, it takes a Swedish teenage environmental activist —…
