The Climate Killers
On this day that we hear that 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history while Los Angeles continues to burn, I must share this piece by Thom Hartmann (click the title or the “Read more” to read it):
The basic science of global heating, carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, has been understood since the basic work done by Eunice Foote and John Tyndall in the middle of the 19th Century, early in the industrial revolution.
In just ten days the U.S. will install as its president a man who, along with a myriad of other faults, is totally ignorant of even the most basic science, a man arguably elected president by the monetary intervention of the richest man in the world. That man, Elon Musk, will adopt any opinion and tell any lie he thinks will lead to his further enrichment —everyone else on the planet be damned. Sadly, Musk and those others wearing “$2000 suits” to whom Hartmann alludes in his post will, by virtue of their wealth and mobility, will likely be some of the last people to suffer the results of their denial.
Keep to the high ground,
Jerry