Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it. Or, so the saying goes.
The road less traveled is often less traveled for a reason. Maybe the reason no one does anything about the weather is because you can’t do anything about the weather.
Climatologists from all over the world (actually, about 160 people from just over a dozen countries) met in Honolulu to talk about global warming. If they were really serious about global warming, wouldn’t they meet in Greenland or Iceland instead of Honolulu?
“Honey, I have to go to Honolulu to talk about global warming. I’ll be late getting back so don’t wait up for me.”
The ring of seriousness is nowhere to be found in a roundtrip ticket from anyplace to Honolulu. Reykjavik Or Nuuk, maybe. Honolulu? No city is less concerned about global warming.
Those attending the “Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change” called the discussions constructive but said differences remain. You think?
We live in an age where it’s almost impossible to get adults to agree on anything, let alone college educated adults posing as scientists or government leaders. Either there’s global warming or there’s not, right? So which is it?
The answer, of course, is that throughout the history of the world, so far as we know it, there’s always been global warming. And cooling. And warming. And cooling. One man’s warm is another man’s global much ado about nothing.
Through the millions or billions of years it’s been floating in space, our globe’s weather alternately cools and then warms for all kinds of reasons. Earthquakes, volcano eruptions, asteroid crashes, sometimes all three on the same weekend, sometimes none of the three for centuries.
Weather changes. We all know it. What we don’t know is exactly why. We also don’t know positively, absolutely for sure, according to scientific processes, that human activity for the past 100 years or so is fully responsible for the current warming trend.
Assume that we are part of the cause of global warming, do we know we we did to cause the warming, and do we know what we can do to fix it, short of abandoning thetechnogadgets and accouterments of modern life, and living in caves?
Everyone talks about climate change, but no one is willing to take responsibility for it.
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