I would rarely comment on a fellow NU blogger's post, being that I have my own soap box from which to pontificate at will. But having gone through a similarly heated debate (pun intended) about global warming on this blog not too long ago, I thought I would throw in my two cents about yesterday's entry by our tech editor, Ara C. Trembly.

While playing coy about his own personal take on the subject, Ara posted an interview on his blog (www.insurancetechguru.com) from way back in 2001 with William Gray, the high-profile hurricane forecaster, slamming former Vice President Al Gore, whose highly acclaimed documentary on the subject just won an Oscar. I give Mr. Gore a lot of credit for raising awareness of this potentially catastrophic challenge, but his critics are plentiful and brutal in their counterattacks.

I personally think we're all missing the point by fixating on whether or not global warming is one of two things: Either it's an absolute fact of such monumental importance that we must turn the way we live our lives upside down overnight or risk extinction. Or it's just another cockamamie liberal hoax–much like those ridiculous theories of evolution and gravity–so we should just go on our merry way pumping out greenhouse gas until we're baking like Thanksgiving turkeys!