Global Warming: Finally Getting Hot?
Can you believe that, before this week, 13% of the US population hadn’t heard the phrase “global warming”? Things might be changing since those two important words have gotten a lot of coverage this week. A few days ago, we heard about the congressional hearing which gave us more details about the Bush administration’s censoring of government scientific research on climate change. (I’ll add that the phrase “climate change” has been critical to the administration’s whitewashing of the global warming crisis.) Today, we all wake up to learn that humans are “very likely” responsible for global warming. This is front page news. Wow. I’d be surprised if we hadn’t known this for years. But it’s really great that people might start to realize that, if we don’t act fast to reverse the damage we’ve done, we’ll be sacrificing the habitability of our planet - something which we should all agree is hugely important. So, thank you to everyone who worked so hard to bring attention to this critical problem. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get completely overshadowed the next time a celebrity baby is born or the release date is announced for next Harry Potter book (oh wait, that one already happened).
Jim said,
February 5, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
What a coincidence. Only 13% of congressional Republicans believe the evidence supporting man-made global warming. I guess they’re pandering to the imbeciles mentioned above.
… if we don’t act fast to reverse the damage we’ve done, we’ll be sacrificing the habitability of our planet - something which we should all agree is hugely important.
Actually, Christian fundamentalists (people who are getting disproportionate representation in our government) tend not to follow the biblical “Good Shepard” approach toward our environment. Instead they’d rather follow the equally biblical “Rapture” approach, which requires no guilt for destroying the environment because, well, Armageddon is coming soon anyway.
Christian said,
February 6, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
I hadn’t seen the “very likely” news story … oddly enough, I got carried away with the NASA Attempted Murder news. (You should post about it! Well, I guess this isn’t a science gossip blog, but what the heck.)
But anyway, here’s the global warming story (From the ABC News ad on your sidebar!): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=2843292
And here’s the NASA story …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/ts_nm/usa_astronauts_dc_11
Jim said,
February 8, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
To elucidate my point above, here’s a good example of the Christian fundamentalist approach to global warming and environmentalism in general (the fifth paragraph especially).