Monday, March 19, 2007
Bay Area’s Doom: Water or Quake You Decide
By Bernadette Blanco
An article from SF Gate mapped out the Bay Area and which parts would be affected by global warming. In the article, scientists from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission predicted that “parts of Corte Madera, San Rafael, Hayward and Newark and much of the Silicon Valley shoreline would be under water, including a portion of Moffett Field, the site of NASA Ames Research Center, where Google wants to build a 1 million-square-foot campus.” The article also mentions that the future site of the Oakland A’s stadium in Fremont would be affected by flooding sometime in the 21st century.
Whether or not people believe that global warming is real, the climate change is certainly obvious. Just this past winter, temperatures reached about 20 degrees or less. Last week, temperatures in the Bay Area reached 70 to 80 degrees. I never know what the weather will be like the next day.
And while some people might think the warm weather is wonderful for this time of the year, I can’t help but think about how different this season has been compared to the ten years ago and it certainly worries me. What’s worse is that there are some people out there who have never even heard of global warming.
Last month, I was reading an article from SF Gate that about a percentage of Americans have never even heard of global warming. According to a poll by the ACNielson, a global information and media company, about 13 percent of the American population, “have never heard of global warming.” I was shocked to read that. The poll was also taken in Latin in America, and about 95 percent of the population has heard of global warming, according to the article.
It seems like the U.S. government isn’t doing enough to educate people and address the issue.
An article from SF Gate mapped out the Bay Area and which parts would be affected by global warming. In the article, scientists from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission predicted that “parts of Corte Madera, San Rafael, Hayward and Newark and much of the Silicon Valley shoreline would be under water, including a portion of Moffett Field, the site of NASA Ames Research Center, where Google wants to build a 1 million-square-foot campus.” The article also mentions that the future site of the Oakland A’s stadium in Fremont would be affected by flooding sometime in the 21st century.
Whether or not people believe that global warming is real, the climate change is certainly obvious. Just this past winter, temperatures reached about 20 degrees or less. Last week, temperatures in the Bay Area reached 70 to 80 degrees. I never know what the weather will be like the next day.
And while some people might think the warm weather is wonderful for this time of the year, I can’t help but think about how different this season has been compared to the ten years ago and it certainly worries me. What’s worse is that there are some people out there who have never even heard of global warming.
Last month, I was reading an article from SF Gate that about a percentage of Americans have never even heard of global warming. According to a poll by the ACNielson, a global information and media company, about 13 percent of the American population, “have never heard of global warming.” I was shocked to read that. The poll was also taken in Latin in America, and about 95 percent of the population has heard of global warming, according to the article.
It seems like the U.S. government isn’t doing enough to educate people and address the issue.
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