"Global Warming Conference Canceled Due To Snow," said a pithy sign on the parkway in front of a Jimmy Johns for about two weeks up until this morning. The appropriate response, "Then how about you cancel my order?"
(Tallahassee, FL)
"Global Warming Conference Canceled Due To Snow," said a pithy sign on the parkway in front of a Jimmy Johns for about two weeks up until this morning. The appropriate response, "Then how about you cancel my order?" The dilemma I have about this particularly hair-brained idea though, is why put up a sign to diminish global warming in a city where there are 2 to 1 Democratic registered voters? Doesn't sound like a great plan to me unless they've been taking business advice from soon-to-be governor Rick Scott.
I brought light to that question with a manager who didn't think the "type of clientele" that go to Jimmy Johns would stop going because of the sign, agreeing also that it was up for about two weeks until this morning. I asked, "What if I told you people stopped coming here because of it?" to which he responded, "I think they need to lighten up." You know since the environmental epidemic causing economic consequences, storms, floods and conflicts because of dwindling resources isn't really that big of a deal and it's okay to be spoon fed by the right-wing punditry which simply says that isn't happening. Maybe that's why the person in charge of the House committee on commerce and energy is against enforcing climate rules and especially against the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to enforce climate rules.
One employee said the sign made sense because global warming causes climate change; true, but it's clear that is not the impression that the message communicates. If it's meant to be ironic, it's not obvious - particularly to people who pay attention to what Fox News has been saying lately about global warming in light of snowstorms, quoting "scientific" comments like, "it's going to be so cold it's like hell being frozen over." The manager added that someone came into the restaurant specifically because they liked the sign; I am sure they didn't think it was a punchline about the climate change that global warming causes.
Given objective testing as far back as the 1960's, global warming has an ongoing environmental effect and that there isn't another critical explanation for the ever increasing infrared radiation in our atmosphere. If you don't "believe" in global warming I challenge you not to "believe" in other testaments of science as well - like gravity.