I’ve been reading articles recently that say that anywhere fro 30-80% of North Americans believe in global warming. Now, it strikes me that the vastly different estimates are far less interesting than the fact that they’re measuring “belief”. Is this like a monster under the bed sort of thing? If we don’t believe in global warming then it’ll go away?
Or is it more like a Santa Claus thing? Like making up a story to coerce “nice” behavior out of certain people?
Or is it more like a monster under the bed thing? If we don’t believe in global warming, and it’ll go away? Or it won’t. Or is it a marketing drive that relies on large consumer support?
Maybe it’s a Tinker Bell thing: clap for global warming and it will be true.
Is global warming a religion that depends on the faithful to thrive?
I don’t get it. Global warming is either real or it isn’t real, right? There’s plenty of evidence, right? Well, maybe not. But you gotta believe!
Now we have Mothers Against Climate Change – that’s right, People Against Weather. Try as I do, I can’t find any substance in their call for “action”. They want me to protest and to “send a message” and to “care for our children’s’ future”, but how does any of that change the weather?
I mean it; show me some cause and effect here. When I was a kid, Mister Wizard proved science to us every week on TV. It’s not enough to be against weather. Show me how you’re going to control it.
I think People Against Weather have a good cause – I really do. Rain can absolutely ruin a good weekend. And have you ever slipped into a car and your a.c. is on the blink and you’re in the middle of a heat wave? Don’t even think about touching the steering wheel! And snow – Vancouver didn’t get any during the Olympics, but got plenty of it the years before and after. Weather is a real bummer some times.
So yeah, maybe every summer I’ll believe in global warming, and every winter I won’t. But you People Against Weather, I’d stop tilting at windmills if I were you.