Saving mother earth from global warming.

Let me deviate from my usual subject matter this time to make this post about global warming. It certainly is a hot topic nowadays and shows no sign of cooling down. Almost every major international magazines and dailies have run stories and reports about the perils of global warming and what we, the planet's inhabitants can do to abate its carastrophic eventualities.

Time Magazine's March 29th cover story features the "Global Warming Survival Guide", and lists down 51 Things We can Do to Save the Environment.

Here's an alarming report from National Geographic: "There is little doubt that the planet is warming. Over the last century the average temperature has climbed about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 of a degree Celsius) around the world. Rising temperatures have a dramatic impact on Arctic ice, which serves as a kind of "air conditioner" at the top of the world. Since 1978 Arctic sea ice area has shrunk by some 9 percent per decade, and thinned as well".

Not to be outdone, today's issue (April 11th) of the Philippine Daily Inquirer features Greenpeace's "laundry list of easy-to-do practices to help in the global effort to stop global warming" - ranging from buying local products so that we can reduce imports, and in the process, lessen the use of fuels, to resorting to walking, running or biking instead of using motor vehicles.

According to Greenpeace, in the latest assessment report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, many of the worst effects of global warming were "not locked into the future'' and that humans could adapt to future global warming threats by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

So it's never too late. If we heed the advice of scientists and environmentalists now, we can still save mother earth.