MANKIND AND GLOBAL WARMING GO HAND IN HAND

In regards to a recent letter "What Snow pack Decline in the West"; I took interest in noting how the writer is eager to throw out evidence that global warming has been 'hyped up' by the media--by telling us how much snow we are getting in the Sierras or in the Cascades--as contrary to the belief that such an impact isn't the result of global warming.

While the writer urges that people get educated, the threat of global warming is an all too real event that can no longer be ignored.

For example, there are reports that Lake Mead may dry up by 2021. A major lake in the Southeast--feeding into Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama--may also be bone dry in the next 5 years. What about the massive drops in the water levels of Lake Michigan? Or how how about the recent study where it shows that man does indeed have an impact on the world's oceans?

Just because we don't see global warming in action, doesn't mean it's not there. All these examples show that we are causing a preliminary shift in the way our planet behaves and operates. And global warming is a direct result of our tampering with the very environment that we've lived in for hundreds of years.

After all, we've been able to change the course of mighty streams and rivers in the past. There is little that Man cannot affect now with the right technologies at hand. And the effects tend to take awhile to catch up with the rest of us.

And when they do...? The results are nothing short of spectacular.

Or devastating.

Schuyler Thorpe

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