writeaboutwarming

February 14, 2014 – If you listen real closely, you can hear the number of climate denialists falling, even as I write.   I say that because I don’t know of a single state that’s dodged the bullet this winter.   (I actually don’t know what Hawaii’s weather has been like, so maybe 1 out of 50.)    Do you suppose that Republicans now understand that mitigation would cost far less than playing catch up?   Of course, we’ll HAVE to play catch up after this winter.   (All of you who have solar panels on your home and live in a city with readily available mass transit have my permission to look smug.)   Our situation can best be described with the words “far too little, far too late.” The weather is the lead story on the news these days.   Was it really just five years ago that the oh-so-sycophantic TV stations never mentioned it at all?   Unfortunately, the fact that we’ve taken to believing that corporations are in charge hasn...