On climate change (yea, you should care)
It always amazes me when people don’t care about important issues. I can understand that many people don’t know if climate change is something they can or can’t affect. But burying our heads in the sand won’t make an issue go away. Investigate further or, if you aren’t willing to, then let the experts decide.
Here’s a really great, well presented pro- and con- on climate change (or try this image on white, it’s more legible).
For some really in-depth analysis on climate change (not to mention a bit of exposé on some disappointing and underhanded misinformation from the skeptics) take a look at The Temperature of Science by James Hansen (PDF). James cites a few examples where corrections to data were argued to be “cooking the books.” And yet, critics could only argue about the fact a correction was made — they couldn’t find any flaw in the corrections themselves (let alone, apply their faculties to discover the original flaws in the first place).
