Wednesday, July 26, 2006
when trees attack
last week, as i was sunning myself in beautiful southern california, the town that i live in, montclair, nj, was experiencing some truly awful weather. i didn't learn until after i climbed over several downed tree branches on my way to the train station that in fact montclair had experienced a "microburst," a seriously powerful wind storm that in this case i believe also involved driving rain. in fact, even a sports illustrated writer mentioned it here (scroll down to the very bottom). he uses it as evidence that we should all go see an inconvenient truth, which i would almost definitely concur with had i seen an inconvenient truth. i would really like to, though, so maybe this will serve as inspiration for me. weather is so crazy!
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Linking current weather conditions to Global Warming is a red herring. If anything it plays into the hands of those who would deny climate change. Because shortly (you know, when the summer's over) it will not be so hot. And then the deniers will say, "Well? What happened to your 'Global Warming'?"
The truth is that humans haven't been paying much attention to weather for most of our history. Even the best records only go back about 150 years. It's hotter now than it was then, but it's not evidence that it's hotter than it's ever been. Nor is it evidence that it will only get hotter and hotter.
If the heat-wave gets people to get their heads out of the ground and notice that humans and pollution are changing the climate, then that's a good thing. We need to pay better attention.
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