If overwhelming scientific consensus wasn’t already enough to convince someone that climate change is real and requires immediate action, just look outside your window. All the heat waves, record-setting droughts, freak storms, and catastrophic wildfires we’ve seen all summer long reflect the trends that climate scientists have been predicting would result from global warming.
Gene Karpinski: Standing Up for Science and Defending Our Environment
Looks like summer 2012 will finish with the fewest forest fires of the last decade, and the lowest tornado count on record. But no doubt the drought is worse than the Dust Bowl.
I look outside my window.. it’s one of the coldest winters we’ve had in years. Now what?