People who are against global warming often say “oh but look at the record snowfalls and low temperatures in wherever“. People who are for global warming always talk about how mild winters have been as of late in areas like the midwest, how hot the summers have been, etc. Personally, I think we should come to a compromise. Global warming or not, we still have a pollution problem. Anyone who, like myself, has lived in a small midwest town for most of his life and recently moved to the city, realizes that pollution is a serious problem.

I moved to the LA area about 2 years ago, and let me just say, all the cartoons with the giant cloud just as you pass into the LA city limits aren’t exaggerating that much. The skies of LA are constantly brownish gray, and hazy. Occasionally you’ll get a nice clear day, but rarely can you look toward the mountains and not see the brown cloudy haze in the sky. I also lived in Chicago for a year, and while it wasn’t nearly as bad as Los Angeles, and harder to tell since you didn’t have the nice backdrop of the mountains for the cloud to stand out against, it’s still quite bad. Then there are the satellite images of China showing actual movement of smog clouds from eastern China over Japan and out to the Pacific Ocean. I don’t know about you, but I’m not a huge fan of smog.

Politicians need to get their heads out of their asses and quit bickering over pointless crap, and start making PROGRESS toward something. Encourage people to drive hybrid cars, fund exploration for renewable energy, penalize people who buy gigantic megaSUVs like Ford Excursions, Cadillac Escalades and Hummers. Don’t just sit around debating the merits of global warming. DO SOMETHING.