The 15 minutes I was a climate-change denier
I cannot shake the hands of everyone who participated in the March for Science on Saturday, April 22, (Earth Day) but I am very heartened by the number who showed up. While the purpose of the march wasn't solely about climate change, it is the science issue that worries me most — and it seems to be the one most under attack. (Image by Stuart Miles/ FreeRangeStock.com) I've accepted that climate change was real from the moment I first heard of it, except for a brief moment at work one day when a co-worker who noticed a story about climate change in the newspaper commented about how stupid people were to concern themselves with it. "It's cyclical!" he added. "Huh," I thought, "how can climate change proponents be so certain it isn't just cyclical?" Though a decade or two had passed since I'd sat in an earth science class, I did recall learning something about natural temperature shifts. It seemed plausible. So I googled it. ...