Michigan is Suffering the Wrath of Global Warming.

OK, so 2006 gave us America's second warmest summer (CNN.2006). There are wicked storms, tornadoes, droughts, and hurricanes more so than ever before. Coincidence? Maybe, or is the climate crashing as a result of global warming? In the North and South poles, ice covering is melting into slush and scientists believe this could be where the crisis is being felt the worst. Global warming is changing the oceans and whitecaps but the effect of global warming is certainly taking more of a toll on land. Higher temperatures are causing all of the moisture to be sucked out of the land which is a major crisis. Forests are dying from thirst or being swept away by wildfires.

The effect is mind-boggling in ways that some of us have never even thought about. In Alaska, the salmon are unable to spawn because the permafrost pours mud into the rivers which buries the gravel that the salmon need when spawning. Small animals are being chased upslope by warmer temperatures until they literally have no place to run to. The sea ice is vanishing which poses a major threat to the polar bears as many are drowned. By the year 2060, it is expected that there will be no polar ice left at all(CNN. 2006).