EnviroWave by Robert Green

My 10 year old son gets it. His 5th grade science fair project was very wise indeed. "What is the effect of global warming on brine shrimp?" He chose this topic without my involvement.

By taking samples of water with varying degrees of salt content, he showed that changes in salinity levels would affect the hatch rate of brine shrimp eggs from hatching if the concentration was not high enough.

He concluded that global warming's effect on glacial melting would alter the salinity of the water, resulting in a disruption in aquatic life.

I asked him about what this means, and he said that melting glacier ice will change the salinity of the water, and that it can kill off lots of sea life; sea life that would ultimately affect the global food chain, and raise sea levels. His reasoning and forecasting skills seem pretty good for a 10 year old.

One day, I hope he see's his father as doing something to help mitigate the global warming problem. I know his generation will be left to deal with the mounting problem that is now revealing itself to us if we don’t get moving now.