Year 2, Month 4, Day 6: The World Of Tomorrow

The Sierra Sun, out of Lake Tahoe (CA), runs an article by Adam Jensen, noting that scientists point out that global warming is going to make it snow more, not less. And, naturally, the comments section is full of denialist blather.

Sent March 28:

The scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming has been overwhelming for quite some time, despite what the professionally ignorant pundits in our news media would have us believe. Arctic ice melt due to the greenhouse effect was predicted in 1953 (in the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine). In the 1960s, “2010” meant a distant future full of technological wonders (I’m still waiting for my personal jetpack!), and a 1962 oil company ad bragged that they supplied “…enough energy to melt seven million tons of glacier.” Since then, science advisers to eight successive presidents predicted that increasing CO2 emissions would lead to climate trouble in the future — only to have political advisers, considering the short-term repercussions of wise long-term policies, decide to ignore the problem instead. We’ve squandered sixty years’ worth of advance notice and wound up with a climate change problem that’s probably already out of control. Buckle your seat belts, folks. It’s going to be one hell of a ride.

Warren Senders