2010 Average Tempature

With the beginning of another year comes New Years resolution, bigger and better plans for the new year, and yes even old information from the past year. This information normally includes statistics from the past year on averages. This article posted on NPR discusses the recently released statistics that proclaimed on average the earth was the warmest it has been on record since 188o. When reading this i had no initial emotions. The lack of emotion produced by this article i do not believe was do to the fact that the information was not important, instead not surprising. Not surprising because we have grown accustom to reading reports that constantly tell us the earth is warming. Upon further review of not really the article, but my own emotional response to the article i couldn't help but think that if an environmentally conscience person like myself feels uneffected by this how do others feel and treat this information? And if we as a society are becoming emotionally dull to statistics that very much effect us and our planet do we no longer care about what happens from a environmental stand point or our we just tired of hearing about it? The last question raised by my emotional response is have we just accepted the idea that our world is warming and there is nothing we can do to prolong the process?