I believe it's called confirmation bias, and no one is immune to it. As long as I'm commenting, I'll note that I'm a climate change skeptic, but only because t

I believe it's called confirmation bias, and no one is immune to it. As long as I'm commenting, I'll note that I'm a climate change skeptic, but only because the reasonable scientist among us is ALWAYS an informed skeptic. The human condition revolves around balancing our beliefs with our observations of reality. I am not skeptical of the impact of CO2 on the environment. I know there are better understood and more imminent ecological disasters that accompany burning coal and oil (tailing ponds, mountaintop removal, air pollution and associated chronic illness). I refuse to be badgered and guilted into choosing a side on guessing what impact CO2 and warming will have on our Spaceship Earth over the next few decades or centuries. Reduce waste for concrete, observable reasons. Individually wrapped dounts in plastic are shitty because it's a waste of energy and resources, not because abstractly plastic is made from oil and oil production is warming our earth. Reduce your usage of electricity so you can invest in novel, more efficient industrial practices, not because Sandy flooded lower Manhattan and you feel guilty about it. If you understand anything about human nature, you must appreciate that it's a fool's errand to try to get everyone to agree, acknowledge, or even understand a single truth, regardless of how "right" that truth is. And it's even worse when your inconvenient truth impacts billions of people who didn't have the luxury of destroying their ecology in ignorance for a few centuries with no one to call them out in the process (Europe/US vs. China/South America). In the meantime, we can make meaningful change NOW by working to clean up the ecological messes that today, this week, or this month will cause someone to develop a chronic illness or destroy their ability to earn a living wage.