A person's reason for starting a blog can come from almost anything - a desire for recognition, a place to vent, a way to document an interest. I came to create this blog because of two things I recently read. The first was Fred Pearce's "With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change". The second was this NY Times article on the work of Lonnie G. Thompson, climate scientist at Ohio State University.
I am, by schooling and training, a scientist. I tend to look at things through rational, non-judgmental, analytical eyes. It takes a lot to rattle me. The aforementioned reading rattled me. As a result, I have decided to create this blog as a place to gather climate related "things" that I have found interesting. It could be a book, a movie, pictures, tweets, web sites, other blogs, or my occasional musings on the ways in which humans are wrecking our only home.
I don't plan on getting up on a soapbox and preaching about how horrible we are as a species (that is self-evident), and how climate change deniers are not scientifically grounded (again, self-evident), although that may appear in things to which I inevitably will link. I do plan on being able to cover a broad range of related topics, such as water, food, pollution, and population growth. And if I am able, at any point, to open the eyes of even one person along the way, it will have been worth it.
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