2007 predicted weather

Reading a piece of news from Reuters, the British predicted 2007 to be the world's warmest year in history. The combination of global warming and the El Nino effect will possibly reach a new high since 1998.

It is scary to acknowledge this. It becomes well-known that our carbon emissions accelerate the speed of global warming; news are reported everyday. Sitting in front of my computer and read the news online everyday, I am like an outsider watching a disaster film. This is just WRONG. I feel myself too inferior to help the situation. I can use less plastic bags; I can walk more instead of taking the public transport. However this is just useless for the current situation. Global warming involves everyone; it needs all of us to put effort to solve the problem.

However, only one protocol - the Kyoto Protocol was signed as an attempt to tackle the problem. This is an annoying fact that the biggest polluter - the United States refused to commit while some fast-developing nations, such as India and China, are not included. I seriously doubt the usefulness of the protocol, despite its necessity. The treaty, signed 10 years ago, assigned mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.

It is going to expire in 2012, so it is time for the nations to discuss the renewal. We should urge our nations to actively participate in the discussion of the renewal. We have to support the envirnomental protection and protest against unnecessary toxic gas emissions. We have to speed up our pace to find alternatives of the exhaustible energy and save the energy. We have to promote sustainable development more strongly. There are many measures that we should consider.

This is our habitat. I do not claim the Earth is ours. I believe the Earth would stay alive even if we were all going to die. This is truly for the sake of ourselves. It is very silly to continue warfares and terrorism, which massively destroy our living environment and our lives. It is also not clever enough to keep talking about damaging corporations' interest - if human history ends, what is the meaning of making profit as no one could enjoy it?

It is a long-term fighting. It needs our foresight and wisdom to acknowledge the current danger. We might have talk about its coming in 50 years when it was 10 or 20 years ago, yet it is not the same now. The ice mass in the Poles are spliting from the core and the polar bear may be listed as endangered animal. Insufficient snowing is often found in many European countries. The ice in high-rise mountains are melting, threatening the source of rivers which could bring drought. The rising sea level threatens the coastal cities and their residents. I believe most of us have the intelligence to understand the emergency.

I know I cannot help much despite publishing my view, yet all this is because I would not like to be pessimistic about our future. We have to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, which is the definition of sustainable development. We have to learn how to live within the capacity.

2007 - let's see how warm it will be.