Remember this helpful guide from SecondCityNetwork the next time someone tells you climate change – or global warming doesn’t exist. This humorous ‘how-to’ will walk you through the steps necessary to control your anger and to bring your acquaintance into the present century…Or else.
Chances are, your obnoxious co-worker or other climate change denier is full of smug and unfunny jokes. To him, freezing his furry behind off this winter is all the evidence needed to prove that there’s no global warming going on.
In all likelihood, your denier won’t be interested, but this is the latest scientific information on the topic.
The National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society reported that the short-term slowdown this century did not ‘invalidate’ the long-term trend of rising temperatures caused by man-made climate change.
“Despite the slowdown over the decades in the rise of average surface temperature, a longer-term warming trend is still evident. Each of the last three decades was warmer than any other decade since widespread thermometer measurements were introduced in the 1850s,” the publication, Climate Change Evidence and Causes, said. So There, And there’s lots more where that came from!
How do you help people remember that climate change and global warming are different terms? Is there a way to get that point across without ripping his heart out,and making him repeat after you; “climate is different than weather!” while holding his still beating heart in front of his terrified face? You do have his attention, but perhaps there are less drastic ways to educate those who haven’t yet grasped the concept. We’ll explore some, and if they don’t work – well, there are less drastic ways to make yourself feel better anyway.