Coming To Their Senses.

CLIMATE CHANGE is not only very real, and very much the result of human activity, it is progressing far more rapidly than anyone had previously realized. Every few months the science is updated, amended, improved, and it reveals onrushing planetary disaster. Now is the time to push the panic button, to take drastic measures. Instead, we have an American president who promises to bring back the coal industry, and whose press representative, Mrs. Conway, declares that although, yes, climate change exists, the proper course is to balance efforts to mitigate it with the dire necessity of increasing economic growth, to balance the interests of business with the interests of humans survival. Of all the bullshit emanating from the White House these days, this is possibly the most egregious. Well, at least somebody in the Republican party believes in climate change, instead of the fantasy that billions of tons of carbon can be injected into Earth's atmosphere without consequences. Every four years the government researchers release an updated report; the latest report was released, actually leaked, today. Its real, its happening now, the effects on weather are apparent, and will get worse. The temperature has risen by an average of over one degree during the past sixty years, and its only getting started. Nobody in the world except the republican party in the Untied States denies the dire emergency humanity, and the rest of the animal and plant kingdom, faces. Thus, Noam Chomsky, eminent M.I.T. academician, maintains that the republican party is the most dangerous organization in human history, for the simple reason that only the republican party is recalcitrant, unwilling to accept reality, and, tragically, the republican party possesses, for the moment, enormous influence. The fact that injection of massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere warms the planet has been known for two hundred years. Einstein thought it would be a good idea to deliberately cause the planet to warm, in order to increase agricultural yield, incredibly. Sometimes, even someone like Einstein can go astray mentally. We should probably ease up on the republicans - just as soon as they come to their senses.