Recently I led a Sunday School class discussing global warming and climate change (let's say "GW/CC" for short). I'm a "believer" in GW/CC, but have been reluctant to advocate out of fear, mainly, of seeming pushy. Most people don't want to be bothered about anything, I think, but especially about politics. And GW/CC has definitely been politicized.
I've got some thoughts about it that I'm going to write down. These are what I think are the essential case "for" global warming (of course this "for" does not mean I'm an advocate for it, but that I'm a believer in the "theory", or truth of global warming. As with all truth, it is better for us that we plan our behavior in the light of truth, rather than in the "light" of non-truth).
I'll present the data favoring the reasonableness of it. I'll also write down some thoughts about why it is so contentious -- I think GW/CC controversy has some kinship to scientific controversies of the past as well as the present (e.g., evolution vs. creation).
As I progress I may even advertise.
Metchosin, Vancouver Island, August 2006
This is looking south over the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the late after noon. The sun is behind the camera. Why are the rays converging toward the horizon?
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