The battle over climate change continues, and a new report by 300 scientists makes clear for everyone and anyone who cares about the future national security of the United States, that dramatic action is needed!
To ignore the obvious evidence of devastating climate change already affecting the globe and the nation is to be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
The worsening reality of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, sinkholes, droughts, forest fires, avalanches, landslides, and glacier meltings at a very rapid rate is a warning sign of what is happening, and much more rapidly than was predicted.
The sad truth, however, is that Republicans and conservatives and those in the energy industries, are vehemently opposed to any action, claiming there is no climate change going on, just normal changes that happen over time but are not extreme in the long run of mankind’s time on earth.
So the battle of the Obama Administration on this issue will face the same stalemate, gridlock, and conspiracy theories that has been visited on everything the President engages in, while trying to promote necessary change!
Hello Professor,
We are having this discussion here at work. Of course what comes out is the diverted argument of, “well how about China….what good if we shackle our coal burning plants if China is not going to do anything?”
I reply that coal is the dying dinosaur of fuel sources. If we want to be the leader of the world….we should lead by example.
I then go on to explain that it is not just coal, but all hydrocarbon fuel sources that is the problem.
When i get tired of listening to the preprogrammed misinformation supplied by the Koch Brothers, I simply ask them to let me read THEIR research papers that they have submitted to various scientific periodicals and their pier’s reviews of this research. (I could not even get them to look up the definition between climate and weather, and explain the difference. They were using both words as if they were the same.)
I explained that this is the real way this all works. Talk about your deer caught in the headlights look…:-).
I end the conversation with, “Yeah, that’s what I thought”…..but I’m nice about it.