As citizens we are informed or misled — depending on whose TV News you watch — to have a few leaders in our nation's capital who acknowledge that the earth is facing climate change unprecedented in modern history.
These leaders face know-nothings like Dick Cheney et al, who haven't a clue about meteorological science, who are enamored with their own lack of information, and who exploit their bully pulpit to collect political capital from organizations who do not want climate change to be a national issue (oil, gas, and cola companies,) to name a few.
For these polluters to acknowledge they are part of the climate change problem, why that would reduce their profits because of proposed mitigation legislation in front of Congress that would require them to act. (Remember the cigarette companies from years past.)
Like the cigarette companies, these moneyed people in the pollution business, along with allied organizations, want their money's worth of influence and to stop congress from passing rules to fix climate change, even if secretly they know doing nothing makes people ill. A likely attitude of these naysayers might be: "To hell with the private citizen, let them buy fresh air tanks."
So, what is global warming?
Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), with about two-thirds of the increase occurring since 1980 Greenhouse gases are produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. These findings are recognized by the national science academies of all major industrialized nations.
So, what's the problem, you might ask. Simply this: The problem is knowledge based and the deniers are intellectual lightweights, such as the news pundits on FOX News, who shout that climate change in a hoax. People who get their news messages from FOX live in an alternative universe, a universe made up of lies, and viewers minds became ossified the day the Democrats' won the White House. These nonbelievers share only political ideals, nothing scientific. We can only be thankful this army of mental midgets is getting smaller, despite the ongoing preaching of "no problem" by the minions of the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Relly, and others. We can only be thankful these people have to breathe the same air we breathe.
