By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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A recent article brings the possibility of divorce as one result of global warming/climate change (gw/cc).  Well, maybe the preceding is a stretch about what the story actually says.  Before we get into the specifics of the article, let us recognize that those two issues have certainly relegated polite discourse among men and women to the manure heap of the internet. Go to any “warmer”  or skeptic blog and look at the bond fire made of virtual personalities and their comments in a point-counterpoint circle.  Of course, one can also see and hear the same on radio and television as disconnected and unrecognized voices and images flit by our collective lives.

Now, what about those divorces.  According to ClimateWire, an online news feed which dishes out information on “The Politics and Business of Climate Change,”  some therapists believe disagreements on different aspects of gw/cc  among couples can end in divorce:

“The danger arises when one partner undergoes an environmental ‘waking up’ process way before the other, leaving a new values gap between them,” said Linda Buzzell, a family and marriage therapist in California. She noted that diet changes are particularly jarring.

The story then suggests that taking or effecting change slowly may b.e the best way to go when there is disagreement between spouses.  One professor has this to say regarding divorce and the twin issues of gw/cc:

“As the focus on climate increases in the public’s mind, it can’t help but be a part of people’s planning about the future,” said Thomas Joseph Doherty, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Ore. “It touches every part of how they live: what they eat, whether they want to fly, what kind of vacation they want”

While the quotes above from ClimateWire are interesting enough, the information provided came from a New York Times article which can be found here.  It is an article that has some humor if you can read between the points made by the antagonists, but which seems confrontational overall.

Strange to say, the articles do not mention any of the recent revelations that have placed ‘warmers” and skeptics at each others throats … that would be the e-mail scandal flap and Himalayan glacier flop.

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