Getting Hot

 JUNE 2021 was the hottest June on record, and that goes back more than one hundred years of record keeping. It broke the old record, set in 2016, by more than a degree, a considerable amount. the hottest ten years on record occurred in the nineteen eighties, then again in the nineteen nineties, and so on. The pattern is obvious, and teh cause even more so. During the last one hundred years the human species has injected more than eight hundred and fifty billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, raising the carbon content in parts per million from around two hundred to approaching four hundred and fifty. Although most scientists are unwilling to say so publicly, it is probably much too late for humanity to save itself or the ecosystem; considering the belated and lame response to climate change, humanity's unwilling to make the necessary changes soon enough, within fifty years the climate will be hellish, heading towards a greenhouse hell not unlike the planet Venus. Ironically, efforts to convert from fossl fuels to sustainable energy sources are only now getting underway in earnest; twenty one percent of teh energy the United States uses now is derived from wind turbine and solar energy; a great start towards survival, but, alas, probably too little too late.  and still a majority of America's conservatives deny that climate change is made by humans; many deny that it exists at all; of those that do, that claim that, well, climate change is always taking place, naturally, and we humans simply have nothing to do with it, because we are too puny to have any real influence on nature. These people are too moronic to reason with, they are best ignored. Their refusal to join the cause of environmental salvation is causing American climate policy to lag behind year after year, as Republicans refuse to take action. Trump, insanely, got elected promising to "bring back coal", even though the free market capitalistic market has long been pricing colal out of business, replacing it with natural gas and solar energy. Notice that the bring back coal idiocy has been quietly forgotten; somebody perhaps finally convinced Trump that its too late to bring back coal, and that we really do not want to do that. Rush Limbaugh uses to lie to his adorning radio audience that human made climate change is a hoax, and the fools believed every word of it. Now that Rush is dead, it can be hoped that his lies die with him, but so far they have not, and are being perpetuated by his bereaved followers. That's tragic. One day they too will be dead, but, unfortunately, so will the rest of us.