Moving America in a new direction is a colossal undertaking. Moving it in a way that requires sacrifice and causes social upheaval is more difficult still. And moving it to prevent devastation a century from now takes both vision and understanding.
But move we must.
Scientific analysis is telling us that global warming is real, that the polar ice sheets and the Greenland ice cap are melting and that carbon dioxide and other gas emissions are speeding the erosion. One study just reported in the journal Science says that by the year 2100, the Earth's temperature could be four degrees higher than today.
Those higher temperatures mean ever-rising seas that eventually could be 20 feet higher than they are now, which would wreak havoc around the world. At some undefined point — and it might be fast approaching — the process will be irreversible.
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