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Climate Change
Climate change is an indisputable fact of life on this planet. Take the seasons, summer leads into fall, which fades into winter, which in turn gives way to spring. Each season is a remarkable change from the ones preceding and following it, and yet this occurs every year without fail. Many take the change of the seasons for granted, forgetting the important lesson that they contain.
No, the way to fight an idea is with other ideas, and so they fight the idea of climate change with the idea that it’s a myth. The earth is not warming up they said, and that refrain lasted through the better part of this decade. Eventually that really became implausible, whether because the scientists they paid to back their claims grew consciences, or because they ran out of ways to disprove everyone else, we will never know. But when it failed, they’ve switched to the anthem that while climate change is occurring, it’s not our fault. Really! This is just the way nature goes, according to them. These people are the band that is playing while the Titanic sinks. Climate change is real and it is a threat to our planet, the sooner we accept that, the better our chances of mitigating the damage are.
The lesson is this, climate change has always been occurring, and will continue to occur. Behind the relatively rapid movement of the seasons, the average temperature shifts from year to year. Some of this shift can be attributed to the outliers, the days in a year that are record setting in either heat or coldness. But when the march of the years produces a marked trend in one direction or other, a significant shift in the climate is occurring.
This is the story of the climate over the past century. It has been undergoing a relentless upward march. The march may seem insignificant, and if you compare it to other shifts that have occurred in the past century, you could marginalize it. A century ago nobody flew from New York to Paris, for instance. But that marginalization is a disservice to the actual magnitude of change that has happened over the past 100 years.
The fact is, in comparison to the rest of recorded history, the past century has seen the most marked climate change ever. Whether talking in terms of increases, or decreases, no other 100 year period has seen such a dramatic shift in temperature. This shift is attributable to the industrial revolution, and the resultant exponential increase in production of greenhouse gasses by humanity.
What opponents of global warming will now try to tell you is that we aren’t effecting the climate change. “It’s happening, just like it always has” they say. And they could be right. But it strains credulity to assume that the most drastic century in climate change just happened to coincide with the century following the industrial revolution.
The issue of course is that this isn’t the first line they used to combat global warming. And really, that’s telling isn’t it? These people are fighting ideas. They believe that somehow, some way, they can defeat an idea. These are the same geniuses who coined such great ideas as the war on terrorism. They want to fight ideas, but they don’t seem to have the slightest clue how to go about doing it. After all, you can’t shoot an idea, you can’t blow it up. You can’t even arrest and imprison an idea, or torture it.
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