'ginormous' is in the dictionary - Do You Know What It Means?

Did you know that the New dictionary now includes 'ginormous' ? Do you know what it means? Do YOU use it?

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - It was a "ginormous" year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster. Along with embracing the adjective that combines "gigantic" and "enormous," the dictionary publishers also got into Bollywood, sudoku and speed dating.

New dictionary includes 'ginormous'

I know things change and I know the English language changes, but come on! Is it just "anything goes" these days? My opinion... just cause people say it alot and use it alot, doesn't mean it should be in the dictionary! Is " ain't " in there yet? Bet more people use "ain't" than 'ginormous'! What do you think?

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2008 To Be Warmest Year of Century and America's Coast Lines are in Danger

Well, as if 2008 being predicted as the warmest year in the century wasn't bad enough, now we can look forward to major flooding in places you'd never thought of. And it isn't from rain storms or hurricanes.

It is from rising sea levels. Now you are saying, "rising sea levels? How can that be when they say that we are in danger of water shortages from dry seasons?"

Well, sea water is not where we get our drinking water. One thing has nothing to do with the other. What they say is happening is this..

" Global warming - through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding - is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation."

Okay are we shocked! Well I am, as they also predict...

"Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is, may be slowly erased." reports the San Fransico Examiner.com.

Good grief! Who'd a thunk it? Well, what can we do about it? How can we stop ir or at least help drag it out as long as possible?

"We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what - the question is when."

What areas will be "hit" the hardest?

The EPA, which studied only the Eastern and Gulf coasts, found that Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and South Carolina would lose the most land.

S. Jeffress Williams, a U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist in Woods Hole, Mass., says it's "not unreasonable at all" to expect that much in 100 years. "We've had a third of a meter in the last century."

It's not just "on the way"...it is here ... now. We just don't know it. The change will be a gradual process, one that is so slow it will be easy to ignore for a while. But we have to start now to do whatever we can. We can't stop the ocean's waters. We can't stop the melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters. But maybe we can help global warming from warming to fast.

There are so many things everyone can do to help slow down global warming. We now don't just have the heat from global warming to deal with, but we now have the rising ocean waters. We are destroying our earth. Granted, some of it can't be stopped - maybe none of it can be actually stopped, but at least some of it can be stalled, slowed down and not contributed to as much.

Do what you can to stop global warming. If everyone does just a few little things, multiply that by the millions of people in the country, and there's a good chance that we could at least slow it all down a little.