What Jeff Ircink thinks about Global Warming.

My cousin Scott started a new blog - This Is My World. Here's a recent post concerning his views on global warming.

He asked me what I thought about global warming. I said it seems to be a partisan issue - Democrats believe in it. Republicans don't. Imagine that. Hmmm. Read this teeny-tiny excerpt from my play, "Stan's Addiction" (2004 Heuer Publishing Co.):

STU
(His head in the paper.)
Paper says it’s supposed to be hot the rest of the week into next week.

PATRICK
(His head in the paper, fiddling with a pencil. Matter-of-factly.)
Hard work - being a weatherman. Stick your head out the window and say, ‘it’s hot’, ‘it’s cold’, ‘it’s raining’, ‘it’s snowing’. Stick your head out the window every ten minutes for your updates, and there you go – you’re a weatherman.

STU
I think there’s a little more to it then that, Patrick.

Is there, "Stu"? In a roundabout way, I sort of think like "Patrick".

I believe in treating this planet with respect. I believe in not littering and that recycling is good. I believe that it's almost certain that the pollutants from cars and manufacturers isn't good for the environment like I believe that smoking isn't good for your lungs. I believe the more trees we plant the better - that we should replace what we reap. I believe that man should not live by development alone. I believe the earth's climate changes and what we do affects the climate - to a degree.

That being said, how am I supposed to believe global warming proponents when they predict that specific actions by mankind TODAY will have THIS EFFECT or THAT EFFECT on the earth 25, 50, 100 or 200 years from now if weathermen can't get the weather forecast right for tomorrow?

Anyone? Buehler?