The Biggest Threat to Humanity in Effect, Right Before Our Eyes

The South of the United States is and always has been an interesting section of America inhabited by interesting people ever since the country's creation. But this new and very interesting event in the southern state of Kentucky does not have anything to do with politics. It deals with the increasingly troubling problem that will eventually consume the entire human population, called global warming. The San Francisco Chronicle explains the bizarre occurrence that happened in a Kentucky farm.

A Hardin County farmer said that some ears among his feed corn rows popped on the stalk in a phenomenon that agricultural experts believe is associated with irregular rainfall and high heat.

To point out the obvious, this "phenomenon" is considered irregular because it has occurred very few times, if at all, and most of these occurrences have most likely occurred recently. What has also occurred in recent years is a vast increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere, a contributor to what Thomas Friedman, terms the "enhanced greenhouse effect." The "enhanced greenhouse effect" has brought global warming to effect, and the results of global warming are beginning to become visible in the short-term, which is very dangerous because until lately, the effects of global warming have slowly but surely crept up on us and represent our impending doom. Scientists believe that the popping of corn on the ears is because of "irregular rainfall and high heat," which essentially means that global warming is starting to have immediate consequences on our lives in numerous aspects. Left untreated, global warming will cause events like the popping of corn on the ear to become much more common, among countless other events that will be more harmful than this. Therefore, we, as Americans and as inhabitants of planet Earth, must begin to look toward a what Friedman calls a "Code Green."

Here is the link for the article from the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/07/national/a130906D07.DTL