ENVIRONMENT: RealClimate

Since climate change is on my short list of Real Threats to Human Life (and the Middle East, except as a portal for bird flu, is not) you'll be getting lots more ENVIRONMENT posts. So today let's look at a very cool blog: RealClimate or as they subhead it; Climate science from climate scientists. As they state it their mission is:

..."a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science."

I like their posts because they lack hysteria and have great links. Their comments get my thinking more in line with their reality, not mine, which is admittedly heavily colored by the doom and gloom of liberal politics. Yes, you got that right. When it comes to dangers such as those posed by global warming and other environmental issues I really want the rosy-colored beliefs of wingers to be true--I want it to all just go away.

Although RealClimate does not support winger opinions that all is well and (yes, they say, NYC will one day be submerged from global ice sheet melting) I don't get the feeling we'll be swimming along the A-Train line in my immediate family's lifetime. BUT, just because that might not happen is no reason to do nothing to reverse the trend now. If anything it renews my conviction that something can be done.

Politically, you know what that means: hard-working liberals in, wishful thinkers out.