I’m finally getting around to reading Al Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth [warning: music]. I had been unsure about man’s effects on global warming, thinking that the earth warms and cools all the time. Then Gore sprung one of his “aha!” graphs on me: a graph showing the direct correlation of global temperatures and carbon dioxide content derived from Antartic ice cores. Every time there was an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, the temperature spiked as well, this from a core drilling that spans hundreds of thousands of years.

The other “aha” moment was the mentioning that as the atmosphere gets warmer, it can hold more moisture, which means the moisture in the ground will be drawn into the air. This makes for dry, cracked ground and more unarable land, not what a world with a growing population needs.

Say what you want about the guy everyone jokes about having invented the Internets, but Gore’s science is sound. That’s what makes it so scary. It’s not just hype. If we keep burning CO2 the way we are, we are on a collision course with disaster.

Something’s got to change.