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After sitting through 15 hours of our Global Climate Change Conference this year at AIER (which was quite good, by the way), I came away with one thought: the scientific community needs to come together on the issue of global climate change. Regardless of whether Al Gore’s statements in “An Inconvenient Truth” were exaggerated or not, there seems to at least be some agreement that there are some discouraging trends that could lead to catastrophic outcomes. As Gore states in both his book and the movie, he doesn’t want to be right about his predictions. We need to change our habits.
And yet, the scientific community continues to debate the biggest cause of global warming and what outcomes it could possibly lead to. As was stated this weekend, there is no way to predict the possible outcomes of our actions today. But given some of the trends and some of our alarming consumerist habits, we should at least agree that we need to change what we’re doing. Good luck getting that agreement from the scientific community. They’re too busy arguing over what we should expect, instead of arguing over what we should be doing.
They should be sent to Mars where they will actually have to figure out a way to deliberately change the global climate.
