Now listen, man, I get it. Science is hard. Science is so hard that there is a profession dedicated to it. In fact, there are multiple professions with different designations dedicated to it. Even that can be frustrating/confusing for people who aren't used to professions having different designations. Ya know, like calling someone a doctor who is not an MD. I know how confusing that can be for some of you. And I'm really sorry you do not know how to use Google during these times, but you really need to learn for the sake of mankind.
Yes, really. Mankind's future depends on you not being an ignorant twit.
Now, I am not a scientist.
Nope.
Not even a little bit.
But even though I'm not a scientist, I can trust science. Here's why: Scientific facts are tangible. Tangible is another way of saying that we can see, feel, smell, etc. the changes. They are definitely there, because numerous experiments were done to prove the existence of what we weren't sure was there. Like gravity, for instance. We can't see gravity, but we can feel its effects when we jump in the air and land back down on the ground. Otherwise, that jump would have flung us into space.
Cool? Cool.
Now, climate change (initially coined by Al Gore as Global Warming) is a very real thing.
Quick background: the Earth goes through these climate periods some of which we're familiar with through high school science classes that teach us of the Ice Age and so forth. Certain phenomena can accelerate the process of these climate periods. For instance, a meteor that crashed into Earth around when the dinosaurs were still around could have created a nuclear holocaust of sorts in that the Earth got so hot so fast, that most living organisms died out.
Today, we're realizing that climate change is being accelerated by humans. Oil that would have stayed inside the crust of the Earth would have stayed there had we not extracted it. Once the oil enters our cars, the used oil creates noxious gas that fills our atmosphere and even damages our O-Zone, which protects us from the Sun! Moreover, the gasses create a Greenhouse Gas effect where the warm air has a hard time escaping the Earth's atmosphere, so instead of the warm rays of the sun ricocheting into the stratosphere, it instead comes back down to Earth.
Scientists of all kinds, including those we hear from all the time in Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, are trying to warn us of the severity of this issue so that we can start combating the issue now before we destroy ourselves. On the other hand, there are politicians like Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida, who are trying to keep people stupid by abolishing the term "climate change" completely.
Now, I know some of you out there are going to be like, "Well, Al Gore was a politician! We believed him!" Well, first off, by the looks of it, no you didn't. Secondly, he was taken very seriously--ya know, since he won the Nobel Prize in Science--by science colleagues because he went through the mathematics and scientific experimentation to prove his stance on the topic. To hammer the point home, he decided to call his now proven theory "Global Warming," because he wanted to make it abundantly clear to your Average Joe that the Earth is slowly beginning to rise in temperature.
I know I'm being very basic about this stuff and talking about it as if you've never heard of climate change. I'm really hoping you have, the reason I'm laying it out like this is because it's super important! If there's one topic that needs to be talked about every single day until we're sick of it (which some of you might have been hearing about it a lot and ARE sick of it) this is the topic.
We need to do something about this collectively. This is not a one-person job, so don't go begging the President to fix everything--and trust me, he's been trying his damndest as far as cc goes. In order to make a real change, we need to start creating groups that write petitions to those we've elected in power to make changes on a smaller scale first, i.e. Mayor, governor, Senator, etc. An immediate big scale change like this--going from oil/limited energy to solar/unlimited energy--is not going to happen. Bill Nye and Tyson are going all over the place--TV outlets, conferences, the President himself, etc--to fix the problem on a big scale. I appreciate what they are doing, because it has gotten the conversation going throughout the world, let alone the country, but we need to do our job, too!
So, say it with me: We can make a change!
Get out of that pessimistic shell of, "I'm a turtling nobody without a voice."
No, you're not. And it's time we stop pointing the finger at our constituents expecting them to mind-read us. We need to tell them. To their face. That things need to change.
Say it with me. Then be the change you want.
- PatInTheHat
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