In spite of the flood of disturbing reports coming from both the Antarctic and the Arctic—just a few days ago, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that the extent of the Arctic ice cap in winter had hit a record low for the second year in a row—the issue of climate change has rarely come up during the Presidential primary campaign.
Elizabeth Kolbert, “Climate Catastrophe, Coming Even Sooner?” (via newyorker)
at this point, we should just let the denialists save faces, and just say, regardless of what is causing this climate change, we should throw everything we have at dealing with the consequences and figure out a program of how we’re going to adapt (and stop contributing to CO2 levels ourselves, whatever that contribution is, and stop subsidizing building of housing and infrastructure in places that will inevitably get flooded)
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