Let's call an end to the politicized debates regarding climate change. It is astounding that this should even be an issue with differing sides and conflicting opinions. It's science, and now is the time to address it before it is too late. Friedman and Mandelbaum write, "To call the whole phenomenon a hoax, to imply that we face no problem at all--that scientific evidence for its existence is bogus--is to deny the laws of physics." What I'd like to see is a debate on different solutions to remedying the consequences of climate change.
I really like this term "Global Weirding" the writers use because it "is a more accurate way to describe the climate system into which the world is moving... Global warming... it sounds so cuddly. It will be anything but that."
Critics of climate change might cite the recent snowfall in South Africa earlier this month as proof (evidence even!) that global warming isn't happening. South Africa Snowfall Stuns Johannesburg "If it's suppose to be global warming, how come it's snowing in Africa." But that's the point, it's not suppose to snow South Africa. It's weird. And weirder still is that this isn't scaring enough people into demanding changes in how we use our planet.
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