my global warning

by quatisha kelley
(memphis,tennessee,united states)

its getting hot global warning

its getting hot global warning

It's getting too hot. We need to do something about this.

CLEAN UP THE TRASH MAKE THE EARTH HEALTHY.

Barry's Response - Seems like global warming is getting blamed for everything. Why just last week I set my ice cubes on the counter and
they all melted. Global warming? You guessed it!

All Kidding Aside...

It seems reasonable for many people who live in cold climates to welcome with open arms any warming that comes their way. I'm in Canada and get a message from my peers that is far more equivocal than that put forth by the rest of the world.

Others recognize that while global warming may appear desirable in our immediate environment, climate change of all sorts has consequences that people (including us) will have to deal with. Fortunately we can. Humans are resourceful and can have coped with far worse things. And we probably will.

Priorities and Circumstances

By the way, thanks Quatisha. You're right, visible pollution matters. It's important to have clean air and water. You can't blame "global warming" for every hot day, every melted popsicle, or every thunderstorm.

Sahara was green a few thousand years ago. Vikings farmed in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period. There are more plot twists in Mother Nature than in a sci-fi show.

Heat is trapped by carbon dioxide. It's happened before, naturally, and the temperature shifted first, not the other way around. Warming episodes in Antarctica preceded CO2 spikes by centuries. It's like eating dessert after feeling happy, rather than dessert causing happiness.

🌞 Global temperatures are affected by solar cycles, according to NASA. Like a cosmic hula-hoop, Earth's climate swings with sunspots.
🌊 Ocean currents (like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation) reshuffle heat around the planet, making some decades wet and others dry.

Do Something

Time to clean up? The oceans shouldn't be ruled by plastic, and the sky shouldn't be thick with smog. Panic because the thermometer crept up a degree since 1850? I don't think so.

We've survived ice ages, floods, plagues, wars, and TikTok. Want to "fix" things?
- Invest in clean tech-wind, solar, nuclear.
- Listen to ranchers, Arctic hunters, and islanders.
- It's time for trees, not guilt.
- Ask charts, ask me, ask everyone.
- When models fail, observe, test, revise, and laugh.

Have courage, as C.S. Lewis said. Live smarter, cleaner, freer-and have fun doing it. There's something global, something personal, and it's a start.

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starstarstar 		Climate Control
by: Anonymous

It is very typical to see people po po on the very important issue of global warming. We have been dealing with it for some time and with no extreme adverse effects hitting us now, its easy to put it on a back burner. I say we need to do something now to save our environment for future generations!

From Barry - You're right. When it moves slower than a sloth with a pulled hamstring, it's easy to "po po" (scientific term?) a threat. Our brains evolved to dodge stampeding mammoths, not panic over 0.1°C temperature rises. Slowness doesn't mean harmlessness.

Changing the ocean temperature by 1°C can boost hurricanes statistics. Asthma cases spike when there are tiny extra parts-per-million of particulates in the air. Like ignoring a tiny leak in your canoe because the bottom isn't soaked.

Don't freak out. There's more to think about than a Netflix series. Cleaner fuels, smarter farming, and restoring wetlands (nature's air conditioners!) matter.
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starstarstarstarstar 		Global Warning
by: Anonymous

I'm glad people care about global warming. I do.

From Barry - I'm glad you care. Caring is the first step.

Science says specific caring wins. It's good to wave a "Save the Planet" sign. Voting, innovating, cleaning rivers, or inventing a solar-powered bike blender? That's better. Somewhere, a hipster is blending kale on a solar-powered smoothie bike.
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starstarstarstarstar 		Of course
by: Jennifer

Of course I care about global warming

From Barry - You said it cleanly: Of course.

It's just common sense. Taking care of a garden is stewardship, like Genesis talks about. It's not a faith crisis or a political football. There's a physics problem, where more energy trapped = hotter, wobblier weather.

It's also an engineering challenge, an economic puzzle, a moral tale.

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