Climate Change article

Climate Change

This picture shows a major change in size of the Greenland ice cap over a few years due to climate change. If this happens to other ice caps the sea level will rise and eventually flood other countries. Climate change is due to global warming where the world's average temperature is increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels and other forms of energy resulting in higher atmospheric concentrations of gases such as carbon dioxide.

There are risks in tampering with Earth’s climate in this way… but it’s an interesting idea, worthy of further study. As a side benefit, this could also reduce air conditioning costs in warmer climates, since white-topped buildings would reflect away more heat. On that note, perhaps dark shingles that lighten in color as temperature rises would be a good compromise… they would absorb needed heat in the winter, and reflect unwanted heat in the summer.