citizen j wrote:
Congrats to the Courant for their aggressive coverage of anthropogenic global warming/climate change (AGW/CC). Keep it up.
I enjoyed reading this piece, and although it mentions global warming, the message I got from the piece wasn't that it was intended to argue that AGW/CC was happening. Rather, it was a nostalgic piece, expressing rue about the possibility of diminishing snow on the beautiful Connecticut landscape.
That doesn't stop the hyper-skeptics and denialists from coming out and roaring like a good old-fashioned New England nor'easter! Publishing a piece like this is sort of like poking a stick into an anthill. Here they come! Skeptics and denialists like ants! Is it a defensive mechanism like it is with ants? Fascinating!
One thing I'll give the flat-earth crowd: you're persistent and you're loud. And according to an overwhelming amount of the scientific evidence and ecological observation, you're wrong.
But swarm away! You can't help yourselves, any more than the ants!
AGW/CC theory does not say you won't see snow in the near future. The fact that there's snow in your yard in no way disproves AGW/CC. You're observing weather, not climate. And finally, even if the current well-documented period of global warming was not greenhouse gas-driven, the fact remains that the U.S. and world population is significantly higher than the last warming cycle. The impact this time around will be far more significant. It might be comforting to some of you that you won't see the more devastating effects in your lifetimes. It isn't to me, particularly on this day. I'd hope people, and particularly Americans, would be willing to make the reasonable sacrifices necessary to ensure that future generations receive the gift of a planet in better condition than the one we live on today.
Merry Christmas to all.
And where, exactly, is all this "proof?" We are not in denial, because there is simply no concrete evidence to deny! Climate change is always happening. In fact, the expert scientific community doesn't even agree it's happening, contrary to Dr. Gore's assertion.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_o...