It’s the average global temperature for this past Thursday, the third day last week that a new record high was set, as half the planet experiences winter.
The topic du jour is the weather, normally the go-to conversation filler when nothing else comes to mind. What makes it front page news at the moment are the merciless heat and scorching sun being endured all over but felt most acutely in the south and southwest.
It’s foolish not to associate these things with decades of burning coal and petroleum products, which have released tons of CO2 into the air. Turns out there are consequences for this of which we’ve long been aware. We’ve known long enough to have heeded the warnings of scientists and environmentalists. Long enough to have curbed the damage done to the air we breathe, and to have reversed or at least significantly slowed the upward trend in air temperatures that is wreaking havoc on ice sheets, and ocean water, and storm formation and intensity.
And, who knows, hastening our demise as a species? Nah, that’s just the crazy talk of the liberal media, and Democrats who eat babies and love Communism and float all sorts of theories and want to take away everyone’s freedom.
Nanny state, my ass, right? The people who are truly in the know would love to invite you to their bunkers in the hills, where there are plenty of AR-15s to go around and enough MREs to satisfy the hunger of even the hardiest foil hatter. It doesn’t matter what the weather is when you’re waiting for Armageddon.
Or when you’re the mega-rich CEO of a fossil fuel behemoth and millions of people keep eating out of your hand, keep consuming what you’re more than happy to keep selling.
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