Today is World Environment Day (WED). Every year a different city hosts the event featuring a new topic. This year it's hosted in Norway and the topic is "Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?"
 
By now, even school children know about Global Warming - how the hot sun melts all the ice, causing ocean waters to rise, leading to floods, etc. Here's recent news that may hit closer to home:

지구온난화, 전 세계에 걸쳐 닥치고 있지만 우리나라 그 속도가 심상치 않은 것 같습니다. 동해 수온이 전체 지구 해양보다 훨씬 빠르게 높아지고 있습니다.
("동해 수온상승 심상치 않다" 지구의 1.5배)

Aside from the mass media, the dangers of Global Warming was probably made sufficiently clear to the general public by the award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore. One reviewer of the film said it was the scariest movie he had ever seen because it outlines a real and impending threat. And it really is scary to see even computer-generated flood waters drowning out entire cities right before your eyes. Though the situation is dire, the film does end on a positive note. We created the problem so we can do something about it.

So what's scarier than giant typhoons and floods engulfing entire cities? Another documentary that says "man-made global warming" is a hoax. The controversial British film, The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007) claims climate change as we know it is not caused by human activity (carbon emissions), but is part of a greater, natural phenomenon of the solar system that we can do nothing about. Now that's scary!

I wish there's some reassuring news one way or the other because frankly the issue is complicated, conflicting and confusing for the general public. Until then, I guess we just have to educate ourselves more and care more about the environment.