Shouldn’t holidays and vacations be a time for relaxation and taking it easy? Well, that’s hard for me. See, yesterday morning I was minding my own business reading while two men sat very near me and started discussing the weather. At that point, it had been snowing for 36 straight hours here in Santa Fe. The city was nearly shut down and the Albuquerque airport was closed.
One man said he was concerned about whether his flight home (scheduled for this morning) was going to be cancelled. Immediately thereafter, he launches into a story about because some lake (near his second home) did not freeze last year, global warming is real. To bolster his point, he said he went to see Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth last night–in a snowstorm!
Where has critical thinking gone? How can one assert a single piece of anecdotal evidence to support the theory of global warming while sitting in a city that is being barraged by a snowstorm? Hello? Anything going on in there? I’m not sold on the idea of global warming, and, even assuming that global warming is happening, I’m definitely not sold on the idea that humans have been the cause. Isn’t this akin to sitting in the eye of a tornado and stating that you don’t live in tornado alley? Sheesh.
