Anyone who still thinks accelerated climate change isn’t happening should simply take a look at the temperature trends over the last few years, including this current summer season. And by the sound of it, Fall is just going to be more of the same.
The trend is warmer, so by next summer, who knows what we’re gonna get? It’s a safe bet it’ll be even hotter than this summer has been. The storms and the flooding will get angrier and more widespread, too, and we’ll just keep trying to adapt until we can’t adapt anymore.
When the temperature is 100 degrees and the relative humidity hovers close to that, the human body cannot cool itself. Sweating makes no difference. But the people sitting in their air-conditioned board rooms at Exxon-Mobil and BP and the rest apparently are unmoved. All they still see are dollar signs.
But ninety-seven percent of actively publishing climate scientists are unlikely to be wrong. So, what’s it gonna be, world? It’s not like we haven’t been warned.
And it’s not like we have all day.
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