To understand how far the conversation about "Global Warming" and "Climate Change" has moved into the general population's consciousness, I conducted a Google search using those two terms. In order of appearance, "Global Warming" came in with 36,700,000 entries, and "Climate Change" counted 94,200,000 items. And both of these searches took under one second to complete.
Although I haven?t read each and every entry, I'm sure my searches included a multitude of duplicates and triplicates as well as items tagged to websites that are not fit to include in print here. So, in order to narrow the search a little bit more, I ran additional searches for "Climate Change" by adding the terms "+ junk science," "+ debunked," and "+ debate." This had an obvious impact, turning up 155,000, 206,000, and 6,200,000 items respectively.
Of course, many of the items that turned up in the second search most likely have the same issues as mentioned above, like duplicates and non-relevant hits. Yet the intriguing aspect about these search results is that there is, in fact, a great debate going on about what is happening to our world's environment from all sides of the table. There are people with differing opinions who steadfastly argue over whether climate change is solely a manmade phenomenon or not. Of course, it may very well take decades to fully understand what exactly causes our world to change. 
The real hope here is that the debate continues not only at the conference tables in the halls of science and government, but at kitchen, dining room, and restaurant tables as well. Because, the way I see it, if there really is to be a true change in the way we do things, it doesn't matter what we hear from the experts, it?s what we do with what we've learned so far on our own.
This topic was published as part of the House Media Network newsletter. Read this newsletter in its entirety at www.housemedianetwork.com/newsletter/23
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