Ostriches

It's amazing to think, but there really are people out there who seek to deny human involvement in world climatic change. This despite the vast weight of scientific evidence, the overwhelming agreement of the scientific community and the visible changes occurring right now.

Today's climate change deniers are no less foolish than the appeasers of the 1930s: blind to the threat, not because of ignorance but because of a pig-headed obsession for resisting the changes we all need to make.

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September 21, 2008 | Filed Under Home 

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2 Responses to “Ostriches”

  1. Nick on September 23rd, 2008 10:54 am

    I tend to agree but it seems that there's an increasing number of attempts to claim that what's happening with the climate is natural or due to solar flares or something.

    Call me simple minded but surely the simple fact that within just my parents lifetime, there are no heavy snowfalls where they grew up anymore whereas in the hundreds of years previous to that, generations could spend days "snowed-in" such were the snowfalls.

  2. Jim Morrison on September 23rd, 2008 2:04 pm

    Hi,
    I do agree that we are wrecking this planet but there are also natural phenomena that cause climate change. During the late middle ages there was a period of a few decades when the temperature of the earth went down (when they had fairs on the thames etc.). It is now known that this was caused by lower than normal sun spot activity and that period is called the 'Maunder Minimum'.
    What I am trying to say is that what is happening to the planet (and something certainly is happening) may be due to a combination of causes, not just human activity. I just feel that any scientist who now claims that the current climate change may be partly due to natural cycles is almost mocked. We should listen to all sides in order to get a true and complete picture of what is happening, otherwise we have no chance of tackling it.

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