NASA: 2010 Warmest Climate Year on Record

http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2010/dec/11/nasa-2010-warmest-climate-year-on-record-ar-608136/

Kendall Roberson

The year of 2010 is now the hottest year on record according to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The year that was considered the hottest before 2010 was five years before in 2005. The United States and China are the world's two largest carbon contributors. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, a climate pact for the most industrialized nations in the world, excluded the United States and China. Other countries over the world are blaming the U.S. for not taking the right, or big enough, steps to help decrease the temperature rise that has happened throughout 2010. The "cause" for this increase in temperature is due to global warming. Enele Sopoaga, the deputy prime minister of Tuvalu, a small Pacific island nation, said, "There is no leadership, no political leadership, by the industrialized nations from those who are in fact responsible for climate change, especially the United States." She is scared her country will disappear due to the water rise because of the ice melting throughout the world. Global warming is the cause of the uprising within countries around the world.

I believe that the United States does have an issue with it's carbon contributions into the air. We distribute so many chemicals and toxins into the air, that it does effect everyone around the world, even if we don't think it does. I agree with Enele Sopoaga. The smaller countries are going to be affected just as much as the larger countries with the rise of global warming. I don't agree with her, though, that she is blaming the United States for a lot of it. Every country in the world contributes to global warming, not just the United States and China. I'm not saying toxins and chemicals need to be controlled for good, I'm saying that they need to be reduced slowly to have a larger affect of decreased global warming to come. Global warming is a huge issue throughout the world and it needs to be reduced to secure, and sustain, life on this world for generations to come.