magazine puts it even more bluntly. across the globe a disturbing statistics. carbon is up 48% since 1992. we heard it many times before but it bears repeating because some people still don t get it. when coal, oil and natural gas are burned to create energy, carbon dioxide and other gasses are pumped into the air. they don t dissipate. they are trapped. if the heat stay is in, the planet gets warmer. if the planet gets warmer, ice cap melts. if ice caps melt they can no longer absorb the suns rayes. then there are storms like sandy. on the west coast you have fires bb draughts, and on the east coast you have storms. yet according to a recent gallup poll only one-third of mer cans are greatly worried about climate change. what can possibly explain this