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The "Myth" Of Global Warming

It's 2:30 AM here on the Great Plains as I scribble this blog entry, and tornados are still being spawned as we speak. I've lived here my whole life - it used to be an extremely rare occasion to have a late-night tornado. Usually, at least in the past, the sun going down takes away a lot of the energy that tornados require to spin up. But in the past few years, we've been seeing more and more of these extremely-late-night severe storms. We've also been seeing tornados and severe storms in the winter months, when they would almost never have previously been possible.

There's compelling evidence that human activity is influencing global warming, but what most of the few remaining critics fail to recognize is that it doesn't really matter whether or not the primary cause is human activity. Whatever the root cause, human civilization faces very dire consequences unless we can find some way to slow the current warming trend. When Miami Beach is underwater, I doubt that many of its residents will exclaim with great relief that "I'm so happy my home and my city were washed away by completely natural forces!"

Maybe it's not within our power to prevent untold millions of people from being killed or displaced by the effects of warming, but we have to at least try...