Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the mass kidnapping in Iraq have been getting all the headlines but those are small problems when compared to climate change.
Even though it was so cold in Seattle today that I had to wear a fleece, almost the entire country had temperatures above 80 degrees and more than half had temperatures above 90 and those temperatures have been that way for almost two weeks. Looking at a graph of temperatures globally, temperatures above 90 degrees can be found across Europe and China/Southeast Asia. (I cant seem to find a suitable weather picture of this but take my word for it.)
Last summer the heat wave in Europe killed hundreds. This summer it is our turn. California has had dozens of heat-related deaths after two weeks of triple-digit heat and now Chicago and NYC are preparing for the same thing. Not only are we setting record high temperatures but the number of consecutive high-temperature days is unprecedented.
In other words, we are seeing predictions from An Inconvenient Truth already. You still think its a naturally occurring change in historical weather patterns? Turn up the radio in your Yukon, keep watching Fox News and enjoy your life of denial. It wont last much longer.
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