Living in Bomb Time — 17
Climate Report: Part Two
How much has the Earth warmed up since the “preindustrial” period?
Surprisingly it’s hard to get a straightforward answer to that question.
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
1887 Charles Dudley Warner
With Global Warming the situation is slightly different. Everyone knows it’s getting hotter, but no one seems to know how much it’s warmed up or how hot it’s going to get.
Some of this confusion is excusable. We are flying blind at this point. Atmospheric CO2 levels are now higher than they have been in millions of years.
So, we literally do not know what's going to happen. Considering that we are talking about the global climate system that all of us depend on to maintain the habitability of the planet and provide us with food, caution would seem to be an appropriate response.
Since we all know the sad history of the “Climate Culture Wars” and still have to live with the cretinous stupidity…
