This is an editorial from the Kansas City Star. Not long ago this same media source would not consider the climate as an important aspect of the lives of the people they seek to serve. But, as year after year drought has robbed the crops from farmers harvests, it could no longer be denied. Those in the country that continue the consistent message about the climate crisis provides guidance to this reality.
There is a place to turn to understand why such tragedies are happening and there are people within our power structure that seek to change that reality. The federal agencies that report the facts do not have the power to change the course of the country.
February 27, 2014
...Time out. (click here)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration agrees that climates change all the time, as columnist George Will posited recently. But Will conveniently didn’t include this from NASA: “The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.”
Using information from around the globe, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lays out compelling climate change evidence from the last century:
• Global surface temperatures are rising.
• The index ranking extreme weather events in the United States is at its highest level in 100 years. (Think polar vortex.)
• Sea levels are rising; oceans are getting warmer.
• Glacier volume is shrinking dramatically.
In a report this week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom said carbon dioxide greenhouse gases are at their highest levels in 800,000 years, caused by burning fossil fuels....
One of the most right wing papers in the country, The Washington Times, has raised speculation that global warming could be a call to awareness to potential virus. That is one of the potentials to the climate crisis; the rise of disease. Climate scientists fully expect that occurrence.
It is a very accurate article. There are profound dangers in this climate crisis and they cannot be dismissed as lacking in the foundations of science.
There is a place to turn to understand why such tragedies are happening and there are people within our power structure that seek to change that reality. The federal agencies that report the facts do not have the power to change the course of the country.
February 27, 2014
...Time out. (click here)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration agrees that climates change all the time, as columnist George Will posited recently. But Will conveniently didn’t include this from NASA: “The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.”
Using information from around the globe, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lays out compelling climate change evidence from the last century:
• Global surface temperatures are rising.
• The index ranking extreme weather events in the United States is at its highest level in 100 years. (Think polar vortex.)
• Sea levels are rising; oceans are getting warmer.
• Glacier volume is shrinking dramatically.
In a report this week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom said carbon dioxide greenhouse gases are at their highest levels in 800,000 years, caused by burning fossil fuels....
One of the most right wing papers in the country, The Washington Times, has raised speculation that global warming could be a call to awareness to potential virus. That is one of the potentials to the climate crisis; the rise of disease. Climate scientists fully expect that occurrence.
It is a very accurate article. There are profound dangers in this climate crisis and they cannot be dismissed as lacking in the foundations of science.
