Climate Change

There seems to be a con­sen­sus that the planet’s cli­mate is chang­ing. But the real ques­tion is whether we will be fac­ing global warm­ing or global cool­ing.

I think it will be a com­bi­na­tion of both. What many peo­ple do not real­ize is that “cli­mate change” is more accu­rate than “global warm­ing.” An increase in green­house gases will not cause every place on the planet to become warmer. It’s more com­pli­cated than that. The United States would become warmer and more humid, but Great Britain would become much colder once an increase in the ocean’s tem­per­a­ture forces the Gulf Stream to slow or even stop. Deserts, like here in the Mid­dle East, will become cooler and drier.

So, in a sense, both camps are cor­rect. The cli­mate is chang­ing, but in para­dox­i­cal ways. It will be up to human­ity to adapt.