According to ABC news, every time you breathe, you kill billions of people.
“Manmade global warming is, according to the world’s climate scientists, solidly on track to be far bigger than history’s biggest atrocity so far”
A number of climate scientists have told this reporter they agree with those, including NASA scientist James Hansen, who charge fossil fuel CEOs are thus guilty of a “crime against humanity,” given the calamity that unregulated greenhouse emissions are quickly bringing on. …the molecules of any one puff of invisible greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide are quickly, the scientists tell us, dispersed around the entire globe.
Thus, everyone on the globe is affected almost immediately by any one greenhouse emission.
Complaints include what seems to the scientists a willful omission of overwhelming evidence the new droughts and floods are worsened by man made global warming, and unquestioning repetition, gullible at best, of transparent anti-science propaganda credibly reported to be funded by fossil fuel interests and anti-regulation allies.
Even during this hot summer, when inescapable bad news about the warming climate from around the United States and the world has forced its way into main stream media coverage, it has usually been reported only in a reactive and literal event-coverage sort of way.
The witch burners are becoming increasingly insane. In 1999, Hansen said the exact opposite.
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
Did the Mississippi River dry up this summer? Droughts have become less severe and less frequent over the last 80 years.
Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), August-July 1896-2012
According to USHCN raw data, the summer of 2012 was the sixteenth hottest in the US. Much cooler than 1936, 1934 and 1901. Parts of Alaska and and Australia were near record cold over the past few months.
I am a lifelong environmentalist and receive exactly $0 for doing this. These good people are a bunch of paranoid, psychotic loons.
h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson
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