There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no Climate Change Deniers carrying axes and chainsaws on the fire line.
I know a goodly buncha people who still say Climate Change isn't a real thing because the Gloomy-Doomy predictions haven't materialized.
How 'bout 2 dead homeowners in Colorado? And how 'bout 19 dead firefighters in Arizona? Do ya wanna talk about the 285 dead because of Sandy last year? Tragedy enough for those 400 or 500 families, but that's the proverbial drop in the bucket when we know the World Health Organization attributes 150,000 deaths per year to AGW/Climate Change.
Do you really need to be ass-deep in alligators before you realize you've wandered into the swamp?
Shit got real quite a while ago, kids - we're just starting to see the beginning of the horribleness.
An awful lot of us have to do some serious cramming to get ourselves up to speed on this. And the first thing is that we have to understand that we're well past the point of being able to prevent the 2-or-3-degree rise in average temperature that triggers the catastrophe, so we have to work now on dealing with it as it happens.
Bill McKibben 'splains it all (btw, try to ignore his highly annoying quirks - the guy's in desperate need of some Presentation Coaching):
I know a goodly buncha people who still say Climate Change isn't a real thing because the Gloomy-Doomy predictions haven't materialized.
How 'bout 2 dead homeowners in Colorado? And how 'bout 19 dead firefighters in Arizona? Do ya wanna talk about the 285 dead because of Sandy last year? Tragedy enough for those 400 or 500 families, but that's the proverbial drop in the bucket when we know the World Health Organization attributes 150,000 deaths per year to AGW/Climate Change.
Do you really need to be ass-deep in alligators before you realize you've wandered into the swamp?
Shit got real quite a while ago, kids - we're just starting to see the beginning of the horribleness.
An awful lot of us have to do some serious cramming to get ourselves up to speed on this. And the first thing is that we have to understand that we're well past the point of being able to prevent the 2-or-3-degree rise in average temperature that triggers the catastrophe, so we have to work now on dealing with it as it happens.
Bill McKibben 'splains it all (btw, try to ignore his highly annoying quirks - the guy's in desperate need of some Presentation Coaching):
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