Americans who need more proof, read this....

Maybe Mark Davis and Rush Limbaugh and 99% of Republicans will never get it, but the rest of America really needs to wake up. Ignore the pundits and politicians, who have been getting paid by corporations and advertisers to ignore the reality of global warming and scoff at the possibility that humans contribute to the Greenhouse Effect. To read the entire article, see The Truth about Denial by Sharon Begley. Here are a few points from the article:

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90 percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies. Those who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change have spent decades disputing that.

Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change.

In contrast, majorities in Europe and Japan recognize a broad consensus among climate experts that greenhouse gases—mostly from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas to power the world's economies—are altering climate. A new NEWSWEEK Poll finds that the influence of the denial machine remains strong.

As a result of the undermining of the science, all the recent talk about addressing climate change has produced little in the way of actual action.

Republicans have also received significantly more campaign cash from the energy and other industries that dispute climate science.

The planet is indeed warming, and at a rate since 1980 much greater than in the past.

Every effort to pass climate legislation during the George W. Bush years was stopped in its tracks.

All the Democratic presidential contenders have called global warming a real threat, and promise to push for cuts similar to those being passed by California and other states.

This summer, Texas was hit by exactly the kind of downpours and flooding expected in a greenhouse world, and Las Vegas and other cities broiled in record triple-digit temperatures. Just last week the most accurate study to date concluded that the length of heat waves in Europe has doubled, and their frequency nearly tripled, in the past century. The frequency of Atlantic hurricanes has already doubled in the last century. Snowpack whose water is crucial to both cities and farms is diminishing. It's enough to make you wish that climate change were a hoax, rather than the reality it is.

Wake up, people.

Sunny