I Like Snow

Let’s forget for a minute all the “likelys” “very likelys” and “medium confidences” and look at what this synthesis report is really telling us: The world’s climate is getting warmer, and it’s changing things. Slowly but surely we have seen changes in global surface temperature, sea level, and northern hemisphere snow cover. Earth is here to sustain life, and for the past few millions of years it has done a pretty good job. Now is not the time for humans to be meddling in the inner workings of our planet and bringing about these effects.
Right now these things are just that, effects. The rise in oceans, temperature and reduction in snowfall has not yet brought about colossal change in our way of life. But it’s somebody else’s problem until it gets to affecting humans. There just happens to be no one else to pass the buck on to.
Perhaps it’s going to take New York City being overrun by the Atlantic ocean for people to begin to take climate change seriously. Then again that may never happen. For all we know, climate change is a perfectly normal phase of the earth’s weather cycle and we are just going through a warm phase. But it seems an awful lot like humans are the cause, and looking at what else we’ve done to the planet, I don’t feel confident having the climate in our hands.
The scariest fact of all is that our affect on the planet is growing, “average arctic temperatures have increases at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years,” (30). This means that we are only picking up steam on our way to a much warmer earth. The statistics mentioned above are only going to be exacerbated as we keep ignoring our contribution to our warming climate.
The earth knows what to do. It knows how to sustain life. Ironically those that rely on it most are the ones contributing to its destruction. We love earth’s benefits, just as an athlete loves their body, but when it comes time to do the push ups and lift the weights we just seem to want to stick a syringe full of anabolic steroids in our ass and call it a day.