Weather vs climate

 Every year, when it’s a particularly chilly day, some people can be heard mumbling “Whatever happened to global warming?”

Weather is not the same as climate. One is short-term fluctuations, the other long-term trends. Denialists fail to acknowledge the long term.

And it’s more than just higher temperatures. It’s more severe tornadoes, forest fires, flooding, droughts, and heat waves. What scientists are concerned about is climate change.

Climate change denialists miss the big picture. They look at the trees, but fail to see the forest.

We here in North Carolina are having smoke from Canada and New Jersey fires give us moderate particulates in our air, so I can't walk outside without a mask (at least if I wanted to exercise.) 

We are indeed suffering from Climate Change. Our weather patterns fluctuate at extremes...and it's nice that there are scientists interested in telling us about them. But we need the people making and enforcing laws to do something with the industrially caused pollutions. 

So I'll keep using what I have to make people aware of Climate Change. My voice. My vote. My purse.

Check out my post: Big Oil vs Vanessa from Uganda, Greta from Sweden, Helena from Ecuador, Luisa from Germany

That post gave a good overview of how these meetings go...well organized so people with a specific cause can be heard.

But as always...this effort needs to go towards those who can really change things who are industrialists and government bodies. Getting them aware is a step that has proved very difficult. Deniers are everywhere, and staying perfectly comfortable.

Who voted for a candidate in the last election that even mentioned what he/she was going to do for our environment?

There's that.