Climate Change
So they finally decided to talk about climate change on the Sunday talk shows, but not to actually treat it as the serious threat to our continued existence that it poses. They have to frame everything as a ‘difference of opinion’ and present both ‘sides’.
There is nothing in the actual facts of the situation that point towards anything except the existence of global climate change. January, 2014 was one of the warmest Januarys on record, despite cold weather in the continental United States. The fact that the Great Lakes are nearly frozen over doesn’t come near to making up for the loss of Arctic ice. As Charlies Pierce said about those in denial: “While England drowns and Australia burns and California dies of thirst.”
If you’re going to claim that this is a normal cycle, you might want to check the record that shows we should be getting colder, not warmer, according to the normal cycles going back thousands of years.
They just moved the start and finish lines of the Yukon Quest because of warm weather, and the Iditarod committee waited until today to decide they wouldn’t move the start of that race to Fairbanks, because of the lack of snow and ice on the trail. A number of the shorter races were cancelled this year because of the warm weather.
We are killing our world, and people refuse to see what is happening.
February 17, 2014 6 Comments
