Starting To Explain Climate Change

JULY WILL BE the hottest month in human history, period. The hottest month in the last hundred years, since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The hottest month since the stone age. The hottest month since before the dinosaurs roamed the fruited plain. The rate of climate change, we are finding out, is amazingly faster than anyone had previously thought. Don't take our word for it; ask around. In particular, hang around any science building at Harvard, and stop folks coming and going. Every year, tens of thousands of climate scientists understand more about climate change, as they desperately try to disprove it, but can't. The people, millions of us, who understand not only the reality but also the basic process behind climate change and the psychology of those who deny it, have done, so far, a terrible job of explaining it to the ignorant, the uneducated, the American conservatives. The world's scientists, especially the young, pretty, charismatic ones, must get off their collective butts, get out among the teeming masses, and explain their butts off. Where's Carl Sagan when you need him! Some sharp Saganesque climate scientist in a debate, mixing it up mentally with some right wing American Christian conservative. Its almost too funny to think about. Somebody must step up, and gently nudge the conservatives towards climatic reality, then, in one fell swoop, drag them into the world of the sane, even if kicking and screaming. First, destroy their myths, such as: the world hasn't warmed in the last eighteen years, or that a single volcanic eruption pollutes the atmosphere more than all human activity, ever. How incredibly ironic, that the only requirement for understanding the reality of climate change is a tiny bit of basic, pre high school chemistry. High school chemistry teachers of the world, unite! And start explaining!