Melting

GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA, both of which should be named "Iceland", are huge land masses naturally covered with huge amounts of ice. or should be.problem, all the ice is melting, and it shouldn't be. During the past decade, enough ice has melted and flowed into the ocean to fill Lake Michigan. Climate change in motion, rising sea levels, hastening the eventual inundation of the world's coastal cities and human populations. Half of humanity levels close to an ocean. The situation with regard to climate change is dire, and can only become worse, due in large part to the failure of the United States to exercise leadership and take the necessary drastic action. In the Trump era, the United States is America first, america alone, America the land of corporate capitalism, wedded to fossil fuels, unwilling to make much needed changes to its economic and energy systems. The U.S. is failing to lead the world in a meaningful cooperative program to reverse climate change not because of progressivism, but because of the deeply entrenched conservative community, much of which denies the existence of global warming altogether, despite the existence of irrefutable proof. The conservative community elected a president who denies climate change, and whose policies only increase the rate at which it is occurring. in order to deny global warming, it is necessary to pretend that automobiles do not spew billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, or that there are nearly a billion cars on the planet. To deny climate change it is necessary to deny that there are nearly one billion tons of carbon in the atmosphere, put there by human industrial activity, or that carbon, a chemical element, absorbs far more heat from sunlight than do the other atmospheric components, nitrogen and oxygen. Essentially, to deny global warming, the cause of climate change, it is necessary to pretend that the laws of nature have suddenly been nullified by some mysterious force, perhaps the Christian God. When you consider that a large part of America's conservative community is made up of evangelical christians who are waiting for the return of a God whose existence has never been shown to be anything other than imaginary, it is little wonder that right wing America is advocating a course of action which will lead directly to teh destruction of all life on earth.