I thought I’d take a couple seconds while I’m waiting for a model to run to pass on two links I thought were interesting:

The first is that a study aiming to measure the Earth’s temperature increase over the past 60 years, and funded in part by people who have been vehement climate change deniers, has shown that the Earth is indeed warming. Of course, this doesn’t placate a lot of the climate change deniers who find ways–although none that seem valid to me–to discredit the study. I mean, there are always tiny things to nitpick about in any study, but the bottom line is would the interpretation of the results change? I also wonder if climate change deniers require the level of evidence they demand on this topic, for other things they believe–the economic policies they believe in for instance.

The second is seven quick facts that demonstrate that people are responsible for altering the climate. Number two in this list was the one that put me over the top on believing that climate change is happening although I find numbers one and four also particularly convincing.

So…can we now put the questions of if climate change is happening and what is causing it behind us and decide what we’re going to do about it?