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Global warming? Maybe we’ll just boil like the frog in the slowly heating pot

I don't know when I first heard this, or whether it's even true. The story goes that if you put a frog in a large part of water and very slowly raise the temperature under the pot, the frog will sit in the water as it gets hotter, hotter, and finally boils the frog.

Sounds sort of like the frog should be a lobster for the story to work, but I THINK when I first heard it, the creature was a frog.

Whatever the creature was in the story, the danger is that WE are the real-life "frogs," and the increase of global warming is going to boil us all as we share the common soup pot we call Earth.

Okay, that's hokey, I know. But there's nothing hokey about polar ice shelves melting at an unprecedented rate. There's nothing hokey about record warm winters followed by record warm springs, summers, and autumns -- certainly where I live anyway.

Sadly, when someone tries to resolve the problem with legislation, whether state or federal, interest groups and people who just don't take this whole thing seriously manage to sabotage it. I just read about a failed bill in Maryland which would have cut down on on greenhouse gas emissions. The reason? Opponents say it would have cost the state jobs and had a negative impact on many in the state.

Herein lies the basic problem -- no one knows of a way to cut back on greenhouse gases and calm global warming without hurting the economy. And I certainly understand that, I do. No one wants to lose a job or lose income -- especially if their loss will do little or nothing to the "big picture" worldwide.

What are we going to do about global warming? Sit here in the pot and mop our sweating brows as the water boils? I don't know. Leave a comment and offer YOUR suggestions on all this, please.
[tags]global warming, greenhouse gases, economic loss, Maryland legislation, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]