Former Vice President and former Senator Al Gore was correct on climate change and global warming, which he warned us about thirty years ago.
Gore went on to concede, graciously, the Presidential Election of 2000, when the Supreme Court intervened in Bush V Gore, to award the electoral votes of the state of Florida to George W. Bush. His concession was a masterful example of statesmanship.
But had Gore, who won the popular vote by 540,000, become President, the history of America environmentally would have been transformed dramatically.
The Republican Party has continued to work against climate change and global warming incessantly for the past 25 years, while Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his activism, but for nought.
The battle on the environmental future continues, as the nation and the world are now suffering immensely from the stubbornness and resistance of the Right Wing Extremists who just continue to promote the use of oil and gas without any acceptance of the crisis the nation and the world have put themselves in by greed and the profit motive!
Anyone who had a rudimentary understanding of high school chemistry, knew “Man Made Climate Change” was a scientific reality.
The GOP just preyed upon the uneducated, underachieving, and weak minded, massaging this demographic egos.
They used the same marketing firms that had people repeating that cigarettes didn’t cause cancer.
Our neck of the woods is inching closer to what is considered a “flash drought,” meaning the lack of rain, dry soil moisture, and abnormally hot temperatures are leading to increasing levels of drought. Little/no widespread rain is expected in the coming week.
We’re having little to no snow for a few winters now. Flowers and trees are blooming earlier than normal. Temperatures in the 90s are coming earlier than normal.
CNN showed some polling this morning. About 50% of Americans don’t believe climate change is a threat.
We now have Hurricane Beryl, heading towards the Caribbean. Beryl marks the farthest east that a hurricane has formed in the tropical Atlantic in June, breaking a record set in 1933.