GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL. IT IS EXPENSIVE. IT WILL GET WORSE! IT MAY NOT BE TOO LATE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! We should not leave this situation to our children and grandchildren. It will be a legacy that none of us can be proud of: "Grandpa/Grandma, why didn't you do anything to stop this?" We should be embarrassed that it has gotten this bad before we forced our leaders to act. This is one of the best sites that can be used to help people understand why the carbon cycle is so important: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/
It is a bit detailed but it is critical that everyone, particularly our political leaders, gets a handle, at the very least, on understanding that rising temperatures, and rising carbon dioxide levels, are no hoax. It is no joke! It is not science researchers trying to stay employed. The information is overwhelming! It is real. The data for this graph comes for ice core samples taken from the tops of Hawaiian mountains and is correlated with other data from around the world.
This graph is a compilation of real data. It is information taken over a fairly short period of time, compared to the climate changes that involved past ice ages. The water levels will rise, have been rising, due to melting ice because it is ice that was not floating in the oceans. Some still use their ice cubes floating in their drinks as an example for why melting ice should have no impact on rising sea levels! The added water is from ice that was on land.