Mr. President: Regulate Our Emissions Now or We Face Extinction
http://www.alternet.org/environment/mr-president-regulate-now-or-we-face-extinction
President Obama has decided that since Congress wont act on anything, hes going to get things done with his regulatory agencies. He may want to start with the EPA if he wants humans to continue living on this planet over the next few generations.
Theres a crisis in the arctic, and were helping cause it. And the EPA may be able to do something about it.
Heres the situation: As greenhouse gases increase, our planet warms and CO2 is now above 400 parts per million for the first time in the 165,000-year history of humans on this planet. This January was, worldwide, the fourth warmest on history and arctic sea ice was the fourth-lowest level in the history of satellite measurements.
As the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) notes, In the atmosphere, 500-millibar height pressure anomalies correlate well with temperatures at the Earth's surface. This is fancy science-speak for temperatures are associated with atmospheric pressure.