Barbedwire Jaguar (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} acierocolotl) wrote,@ 2008-01-08 17:56:00 |
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An Experiment
A number of folk I work with have made statements along the lines of them thinking global warming is a myth. Their memories fade very fast at sweltering summer days, and the smug lines come out during any slightly-colder-than-normal day. (Let's also skip the fact that it's properly "climate change", as it would get in the way of excessive smugness.)
Today, in this so-wintry town, it peaked at 10 degrees. That's Celsius for you moonmen from the US. The normal high is -6 for this time of the year. This weather has persisted for a few days now, resulting in considerable thaw and an immense, city-wide fog as all the rivers and snowbanks have been steaming in exactly the sort of way your freezer might on a muggy day.
So with the heat, I approached several colleagues and asked them what they felt about global warming now. There was, I'm sure you can imagine, a lot of topic changes.
A number of folk I work with have made statements along the lines of them thinking global warming is a myth. Their memories fade very fast at sweltering summer days, and the smug lines come out during any slightly-colder-than-normal day. (Let's also skip the fact that it's properly "climate change", as it would get in the way of excessive smugness.)
Today, in this so-wintry town, it peaked at 10 degrees. That's Celsius for you moonmen from the US. The normal high is -6 for this time of the year. This weather has persisted for a few days now, resulting in considerable thaw and an immense, city-wide fog as all the rivers and snowbanks have been steaming in exactly the sort of way your freezer might on a muggy day.
So with the heat, I approached several colleagues and asked them what they felt about global warming now. There was, I'm sure you can imagine, a lot of topic changes.
