The Truth About Global Warming (i.e., burning!)

Finally, an irreverent article that begins to tell the truth about climate change and the unwittingly duped or intentionally evil climate deniers: 10 Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back If We Don't Stop Our Wanton Destruction of the Environment,  By Scott Thill (AlterNet).

Here's how the article starts.

Thanks to perfectly timed, premeditated reality assassinations like so-called ClimateGate, nearly half of Americans may now believe that the various threats of climate change are exaggerated. That's the highest quotient ever since polling on the issue commenced. But there is good news: They're on the wrong side of history and science, and Earth will still get the last laugh on all of them, and us for that matter.

Welcome to our existential nightmare. From rising seas and runaway droughts and storms to the outer limits of dystopian catastrophes like the fart apocalypse -- I'll explain later -- our planet has no shortage of ways to bitch-slap us back into our dangerous reality, whether we want it to or not.

Unfortunately, aside from the turn of the phrase, the good news is still really bad news! By the time the effects of climate change slap enough sense into enough people it will be too late to reverse course. Absent that, if there were to be future historians, they would note the paradox of humanity's last epoch, that industrialization created the most prosperous material 200 years in human history (at least for approximately three-fifths of the population) while simultaneously reversing 3.5 billiion years of evolution that created the benign ecosystem upon which human life depended.

Read the article. Check the links. Get educated. Get real. Get active. It ain't gonna be pretty. You thought the financial crisis was ugly. Watch the accelerating natural capital crisis of climate burning unfold.