It’s amazing to me that folks on the right still believe that climate change is all a hoax. (I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. These same people believe that you can cure COVID by shooting yourself up with a worm drug used for horses.) I’m here to tell you folks, it’s not. I am no scientist. There are folks who read this blog on a regular basis who can play inside baseball with the best of them when it comes to the complexities and complications of the actual science behind this phenomenon.( I see you Pilot X) I’m not one of them. But I have eyes, and I have common sense, and I can tell you that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist or an aircraft pilot to be able to tell you that the earth is changing in some scary ways.
The West Coast of America is almost out of water. There are devastating fires in California and other states out West every year. Tornadoes and floods are getting more intense. And in certain parts of Europe they experienced the hottest months they have recorded in decades. There is more. The polar ice caps are melting, global sea levels are rising, humidity is increasing, the ocean is getting hotter, snow covers are melting earlier…. and on and on it goes. You get the picture.
If you still don’t believe that climate change is real, read what the Prime Minister of Greece had to say after devastating wildfires ripped through his country earlier this month.
“Everything needed to change in order to minimise the effects of the climate crisis, he told parliament on Wednesday during a debate on the wildfires and criticism of the government’s response to them.
Dealing with the crisis “is forcing us to change everything; the way we produce agricultural products, how we move around, how we generate energy and the way we build our homes,” he said.
Part of a succession of blazes that struck southern Europe during a summer heatwave, the Greek fires scorched more than a quarter million acres of pine forest, with the island of Evia and areas of the Peloponnese, including near the archaeological site of the ancient Olympics, also hit.
Mitsotakis told lawmakers an earlier public apology for the disaster was also a call for action to become better at tackling such phenomena.”
It’s going to take more than the words of a European Leader to make us start taking this as serious as we should. You would think that one disaster after another would spur us into action. Clearly we are too selfish for that. The behavior of some when it comes to this COVID-19 pandemic is proof of that.
Let’s keep the folks of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast regions in our thoughts. And let’s start seriously thinking about where we go from here when it comes to climate change. We will be doing this all against the backdrop of Ida proving to us, once again, that climate change is real.
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