There is no doubt within the scientific community (except the corporate shills who have betrayed their own scientific license), that the carbon pollutants warming the planet will eventually extinguish most life forms. We already have evidence of this in severe weather patterns. Soon, we will be experiencing worse droughts and even more destructive weather conditions, the droughts exacerbated by fracking. In 1973, the petroleum industry bought the rights to most existing patents for solar energy and arrested development on that renewable energy source. Their obstruction of renewable energy alternatives is an existential threat to humanity and to all other species. We are in a crisis. It's necessary to be active and on the right side of this issue.
Update #58 years ago
NASA reported on Sept 11 that the Arctic Sea ice reached its fourth lowest summertime extent---in other words that much increase in shrinkage and fracturing---reflecting that much less solar heat back out into space and allowing that much heat into the oceans, coming that much closer to freeing those methane deposits we're all worrying about.
Update #48 years ago
President Obama's Clean Power Plan will have a negligible impact on carbon emissions and will not affect the major future greenhouse emitters: China, Brazil, India and Russia. The point behind a carbon emissions tax is to take the profits from pollution and replace the energy source with Solar and Wind. Obama's plan does not even address global warming. The rapid conversion into renewable fuel is the initiative that every industrialized country should take.
Update #38 years ago
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report confirms 2014 was the hottest year on record and June 2015 was the hottest June on record for the globe.This warming trend is not going to reverse itself.
Update #28 years ago
East County Magazine reported on June 29, 2015 that G7 World leaders agreed to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 40 to 70 percent by 2050. This is not nearly good enough considering the crisis we face and the looming tipping point of critical climate change. But at least there is a political will by these leaders to do something. The U.S. has not even covered this story in their media. Can we have a few more signatures here?
