Climate Inquiry

Introduction: Climate Change-environment - 01 September 2006 by Fred Pearce- New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9903-instant-expert-climate-change.html

Climate change is a long term change in the climate patterns over a period of time, from decades to millions of years. Changes occur in a specific region or can be global. Climate changes happen due to weather events or changes in average weather conditions.

Climate changes occuring that effect us globally include the melting polar caps.Scientists see the effects in tree rings, ancient coral and bubbles in ice cores. These climate changes have caused the temperatures around the world to in the years since 1998. This they believe is in part to global warming.

Global Warming Solutions-Disaster at the Top of the World - 24 August 2010
http://www.globalwarmingsolutions.org/news/disaster-at-the-top-of-the-world/

In a recent article in the New York times the issue of global warming and what it will take for society to respond was addressed.  Sciencists hope that the new reports showing the continued warming of the Arctic Polar caps. The arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.  And as the ice melt and the sun warms the water it makes it harder to refreeze.  Research show 2010 to be an even hotter year than in the past.  This is shown by the mudslides in China and record temperatures in Russia.  More research and more education is needed to try and revitalize the nation's capitals to respond and make more policies to help reduce global warming.  Recently it seems that due to misleading informaiton many nations have almost stop policy reform for global warming.