Is Climate Change Real?

Of course it is, don’t answer that. It is a rhetorical question after all, one that sometimes crept around the back of my mind when some anti-green post lays down their fact. For all my pompousness of being analytical, I have stopped to bother checking the facts laid out by people who claim that it is real, and the ones who is debunking it. There’s a recent post of how the corals reef in the Panama is depleting recently due to the warmer water from nearby sea. Or was it colder water? See I am not too sure myself about what I read.

Just now however there was a few posts of flood in Perlis, Malaysia and they show photos of cars braving water and small boats cruising by. And this happens at places that I am familiar with, places that are blazing hot and I would find it hard to imagine to rain for days, let alone causing the roads to be submerged. To be fair, they said the water was due to overflow somewhere from other states that washes into certain parts of Perlis, so it was not directly because of the heavy rain at these flooded areas only.

But still, to see a picture, something so familiar to me to be affected, caused me to think that Climate Change or Global Warming MUST be real, otherwise how could this have happened? I think there’s a psychological term for this but it escapes my mind, where your mind can ignore any proof or events that is outside of your horizon, but once it touches your ‘nerves’, then you’ll be convinced by it.

Advertisements do this. I try to do this too, when trying to make a case, and when writing too, as you reader(s) might notice. Of course it doesn’t always work, but I try.

Thanks for reading.