Rob Perks

Might have climate crisis if..

Blogger, Switchboard, Jun 16, 11.

Tagged with climate change, weather, science

In the wake of an extreme heat wave that overtook Washington, D.C. the past few weeks, Spring has sprung back with some blessedly mild weather. But the wild weather has been even worse in other parts of the country, where many people are still suffering from the effects of hard winds, high waters and high temperatures that scientists warn could be harbingers of the new normal due to climate change.

It’s hard for me to fathom how naysayers still refuse to acknowledge that increased carbon pollution—primarily from the burning of fossil fuels—is to blame for the increasingly hostile weather we’re facing these days. After all, climate scientists have been warning us for years that global warming will bring more extreme storms, as well as more rain in some places and more drought in others. What’s it gonna take for the climate change deniers to accept that we have a climate problem that needs fixing? This is a serious question, but perhaps humor can help enlighten the know-nothings.

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Source: Switchboard, June 14, 2011

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