As we said last week, we think global warming should be renamed to the less specific term, global climate change. The next faux quipster who makes a joke about the recent cold snap and Al Gore might get an elbow to the mandible.
Eric Zorn seems to agree with me, albeit with less violent intent.
Yet in these last few chilly, snowy days and weeks I've heard and read dozens of people making wry comments and jokes to the effect of, “Where's Al Gore and his global warming now? Guess this tosses his chicken little theories into a cocked hat, doesn't it?”As if this makes any sense at all. As if global climate change -- the overall warming trend that virtually no serious climatologist disputes -- has anything at all to do with episodic cold snaps and snow storms.
You don't even have to believe in global warming and you certainly don't have to believe that it's exacerbated by humans to know that climate change is a gradual and comparatively subtle phenomenon.
The jokes might be funny if they were pure jokes -- hey, this is what a complete moron would say during a cold snap, ha ha ha!
But they're not.
Didn't anyone see Day After Tomorrow?
“The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition)” (Roland Emmerich)
Tags: climate_change, /global_warming
Hotter and colder, the effects of global climate change. I just had a few plums I should expect to have to pick during summer. Birds got tricked it was spring and began to nest.
Then we had a cold snap (for So.Cal.) and lost a whole bunch of plants. Trees are withered. Am I scared of global weather change? You bet I am. After I saw the chunks of ice and melted bits floating, all of it from excessive heat, I am scared, sh*less.
At least I live far enough from the beach not to fear the predicted three feet increase in sea level. One advantage of being in the barrio of Santa Monica.
Santa Monica is a barrio?
"One advantage of being in the barrio of Santa Monica." I know you miss me, you know I love to be right and had to lure me here.
The barrio of SM is far from the beach. Roughly from 17th Street to Centinela, and Pico Boulevard to Wilshire. So, we will be far enough form the ocean when it swells like a turkey's neck.
The city of SM has always had the neighborhood for people of color and Asians. The beach area, our prime location is a hangout for the homeless.