Climate Change Wonkishness (minor tweak)

Climate change on other planets and moons?

Could it be?

I love how all the conservatives are holding this up as proof that global climate change really isn't an issue. Has it occurred to these people that we may have exacerbated an existing temperature cycle with our behaviors?

More importantly, we've seen more and more in the way of powerful weather disasters, many of which could be predicted from an unusual increase in global temperature. And the ice caps are melting rather quickly on Earth.

So to save lives in the future and hopefully create jobs, thus stimulating the economy, can we please stop arguing about whether global warming exists? It feels like we're arguing whether we should do something about a small fire in our yard -- sitting around and arguing isn't going to help if something changes and the fire grows and burns the house down.

One last note: I can't seem to find anything except the usual skeptic sites and editorials about this warming on Jupiter and melting ice on Mars stuff. Not even with a decent search on Google News (not exactly scientific nor thorough). I'll try LexisNexis later and try to find something, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this is overblown nonsense by flat-earth people.


Posted by pdmccaul [Random News] ( June 28, 2008 06:38 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]