Jan 24 2009
Global Warming, Local Freezing
I will admit to being firmly in the camp of those people who believe that global warming is real. The evidence that I’ve seen and studied in my four years of undergrad university is pretty compelling.
I don’t have a problem with people looking at research that seems quite legit and coming to their own decisions, but where it starts to get weird to me is when people start spouting theories as to why the other side believes differently.
I suppose there could be a big money-making conspiracy about global warming where some evil cadre of corporations are sitting around a table, chortling at what suckers us believers are.
Has global warming changed my behaviour as a consumer? Not really. Does the thought of global warming bother me? Sure. Although when it’s -20 or colder out, I have to wonder if it’s all a bad thing.
Is it really a bad thing to be more environmentally conscious, whatever your motivation? Turning off lights, recycling, walking more, composting, etc. Do these things make me a sucker? I don’t think they do. And I’m sure my grandkids and their grandkids won’t either.
Even if it isn’t real - being enviromentally friendly and efficient is not a bad thing by any means like a lot of people have painted it to be. It’s being responsible for your own actions - a respectable quality indeed.