Its getting Hot in Here!

Wow the resources keep pouring in.

Today's interesting topic is Climate Change, a serious problem affecting the world and its effects are being felt here in Jamaica with an increase in the natural disasters and the intensity of these disasters.

Think about it the first big storm of our generation (people born in the 80's in Jamaica :o) ) was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Then for 20 plus years the severity of the storms affecting Jamaica was minimal until around 2004 when the famous Hurricane Ivan hit. Since then there has been Dean and Gustav but interesting to note, Gustav was a tropical storm when it hit Jamaica and look at the damage it did ... I don't even want to imagine what it would have done as a Hurricane.

I am sure individuals from other parts of the world can identify with this trend.

Anyway just check out this link. Its very cool, interesting and fun to read. Its about Climate Change and Human Development and it was written by Youth for Youth (United Nations Development Programme and Peace Child International collaboration) so no boring text or diagrams.

I am sure you will enjoy it.

Two degrees of separation between Hope and Despair: http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/Two_Degrees_En.pdf