"So far, we've raised the average temperature of the planet just under 0.8 degrees Celsius...
...and that has caused far more damage than most scientists expected.
(A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)"
- Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone
GLOBAL WARMING'S TERRIFYING NEW MATH
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
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to America and the rest of the world...
Meanwhile, America's heartland blisters with forest-devouring fires. Dust-Bowl era drought and record-shattering heat causes wholesale withering and desiccating of corn, beans, and cattle.
Sooner or later, everyone will realize the Republican-corporate lies for what they are. but McKibben makes plain how godawful ugly the consequences of their lies already are...
...Does Willard stand with the Republican-corporate pack of climate change lies? Or has he Etched a Sketched on this issue, like all the others?
I want to hear Willard speak out and OWN this stinky Republican-corporate bullshit in front of the farmers with scorched fields, and fishermen with dry lakes and rivers. Willard is the Republican boy-O, and so he must embrace the Republican global climate change Big Lie.
That hurdle is the global economy. It's not taxes (carbon or otherwise), it's not that it will cut into profits, and it's not the will to actually change.
It's the entire world economy. Every bit of it eventually hinges on fossil fuels. We will burn every bit of them, regardless of profit level. There is nothing to stop that except for the unthinkable.
I've read a lot on climate change, but this article really explains just how impossible it all is. It's like a life sentence without the possibility of parole. To keep hope is a recipe for madness.
