Global Warming Is Fading from the World, by Ezra

December 3, 2020

Climate change has been an ongoing problem for decades, but now we have hope that Global Warming will start to slowly fade. This morning, after five years of construction, PGE finished completion of its twenty thousandth wind turbine along the Oregon Coast, which bring our state to the pinnacle of green energy in this country. The wind turbines, combined with the hydroelectric dams along the Columbia, provide Oregon with 100% of its energy. After just one minute in operation, the wind turbines had produced enough energy to light up thirty thousand light bulbs. Oregon no longer has to use dirty energy sources, like oil and coal, which pollute and raise global temperatures. The twenty thousand wind turbines create ten times more power than the old energy sources.

Wind Turbines Just North of Cape Arago, Oregon

Why is global warming such a problem, and why did PGE respond so urgently to it? One of the problems is that when the earth's climate gets warmer, extreme weather events start to happen. Hurricanes, tsunamis, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, wildfires, and other horrible weather events result, destroying houses, cars, forests, animals, and sometimes even people. When there are floods, heat waves, and droughts, farmers' plants either get drowned or dehydrated, which causes the plants to die, which causes famine. All of this is happening because people have been burning oil and coal, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which causes global warming. PGE made a commitment to try its best to stop global warming because it leads to these world problems.

Dr. Ann Shernell, a leading climate scientist at My House Institute that worked closely with PGE over the past five years, has a good point when she says, "If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our planet." Today Oregonians can breathe a little easier, knowing that we are now climate heroes in the U.S.