Photos: Courtesy of www.arttoday.com (Drought & Flood) and Dr. David L. Adams, Professor of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Fire).
FIRES! FLOODS! DROUGHTS! The coldest winter. The warmest ever month. Homes destroyed, lives lost. Global temperatures rising. These are the headlines that we hear almost every day.
The following pages will look at some of the scientific evidence and data. You will be using and working with this information. It will help when you are considering these important questions:
Are global temperatures rising? Are many of the natural disasters like floods caused by a rise in global temperature? Is any rise in temperature caused by pollution of the atmosphere? Could the changes in the weather be caused by natural changes? Are more people affected by natural disasters because the Earth's population is so large that people have to live in disaster prone areas?
