The next person to mention "global warming" gets a thump right in the eye

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It's snowing heavily under a driving wind. Winter is back, and according to the weatherman it will be around for the next few days.

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Bravo

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I consider myself a sensible environmentalist. We do need to look for alternate energy sources for sound economic reasons. We do need to reduce smog for sound health reasons. We do need to decrease our dependency on disposable items. But IMO to put so much emphasis on the faulty "carbon footprint" issue encourages those who see the holes in the anthropogenic-global-warming scenario to discount the valid concerns about our environment. Your final paragraph speaks well to what I have tried to point out to others, that crying wolf about global warming can lead to greater apathy about the environment, especially if the warming trend reverses itself, as I have no doubt it will at some point. And BTW, why are fuel cells touted as being part of a solution to "global warming" by their proponents? They certainly will help with the smog issues if they can be perfected, but they do produce water vapor, which is itself a greenhouse gas in the proper sense of a gas that helps to reduce heat escape to outer space.