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Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.
The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.
The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.
In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.
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