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Climate Change in Nova Scotia

I am 59 Years young so I've seen a bit in the way of climate change in our area and I've seen other things in nature that makes me think there is definitely something wrong. First of all the winters are not nearly as severe today though we growl a lot about how long they are. This year especially seems very long with inter-mitten masses of snow. We get 1 foot or so and then it mostly melts except in the deep woods. It has been this way off & on since the first of December 2007 this winter. Right now most of the snow is gone April 4th 2008. What is very interesting to me though is not how much snow we get or how much melts but the snow itself. The snow seems different than when I remember as a young lad playing in drifts three or four feet deep. The snow back then was mostly packy and you could make snow forts and tunnels to play in and be fairly safe because the quality of the snow was better. Today even when it becomes packy it is still very hard to make a snowman or tunnel and these won't take any abuse. the snow is different today because the atmosphere is changing I believe perhaps due to less oxygen in the air for some other element. This in effect is very likely part of the cause of global warming.

What to do about it.

If scientists were to study the elementary things on this planet like this they would be unraveling a mystery that people like myself who live close to nature can see without instruments.They say the water temperature is rising and soon will be causing fish to die. We need to go to nature to unravel this mystery as well.Could this be caused by the elements in water H2O being altered by something we are doing to the seas like drilling oil wells and filling them with sea water when depleted. Is it too caused by some element in the air to be lacking oxygen,Carbon dioxide, or nitrogen. If we started using Hydrogen based fuels would this fix the ozone layer that protects us from ultra-violent rays etc? Can we fix anything without causing a catastrophic event in the future. Some small things we can do is recycling all kinds of things now still being thrown in mass burial grounds polluting ground water and sea water as well. Human excrement is still being pumped into the sea in many areas. We have a reservoir near Annapolis that has been scrapped because the dump was above it about a mile away and so after many years finally got into the reservoir.

What are other countries doing to combat it? Africa.

In Africa

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