In Conclusion...
A video talk By Ross Gelbspan (14:52 minutes)


QUOTEWORTHY

“Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the wellbeing of all of us.”

 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressing the UN climate conference in Bonn, Nov. 2017

 “[I]f we don't do anything about climate change now, in 50 years' time we will be toasted, roasted and grilled."

-- Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

 "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken."

 -- Stephen Daedalus, Ulysses by James Joyce

 “One thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts; they’re not really facts. [I]t’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.”

-- Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes quoted in the New York Times, Dec. 6, 2016

 “[The environment] will be fine, we can leave a little bit, but you can’t destroy businesses.”

-- Donald Trump, quoted in The Guardian (U.K.), Nov. 12, 2016

 "The earth is speaking now, but man won't listen."

-- Darryl "Grey Eagle" Brown, a spiritual leader of the Choctaw tribe, June 12, 2016

 "Like any grandfather, I want my grandchildren to enjoy the beauty and bounty of a healthy planet. And like any human being, it grieves me to see that floods, droughts and fires are getting worse, that island nations will disappear and uncounted species will become extinct."

-- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Nov. 26, 2015

 "God always forgives, but the earth does not. Take care of the earth so it does not respond with destruction,"

-- Pope Francis, at a UN conference in Rome, Nov. 19, 2014

 “We have spent our entire existence adapting, okay? So we will adapt to this. Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around — we’ll adapt to that. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.”

--Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, June 27, 2012

“There’s no such thing as clean coal. . .Improving the efficiency in how much energy you get from burning a pound of coal doesn’t make clean coal.”

---- Bill Ritchie, former manager of several large Montana coal mines, The Missoulian (Mt), April 17, 2012

"The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches of water, according to new data" from Nasa Satellites.

-- The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 8, 2012



The Heat Is Online

The Climate Movement and the Liabilities of Hope

* Global fossil fuel burning sets new record  (Nov. 2017)

* 2017 was the hottest (non-El Nino) year on record  (Nov. 2017)

* New CO2 concentrations not seen for 3 million years  (Oct. 2017)

Climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. It is the issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues.

* Trump, Congress scuttle satellite sea-ice surveillance program   (Nov. 2017))

* Trump administration to double down on carbon fuels at UN climate conference  (Nov. 2017)

* Scientists alarmed by the rapid pace of ocean warming  (Oct. 2017)

* Trump appoints an "army" of climate deniers  (Oct. 2017)

* EPA muzzles scientists  on climate change  (Oct. 2017)

* NASA:  CO2 spike from tropical forests is biggest in 2,000 years  (Oct. 2017)

* Coal baron:  "The earth has cooled for the last 19 years."  (Oct. 2017)

* Pentagon defies President Trump's order to halt climate planning activities   (Sept. 2017)

* A 100-square-mile iceberg splits from Antarctica  (Sept. 2017)

* Are megastorms like Irma and Harvey the "new normal"?  (Sept. 2017)

* Hotter soil leads to hotter climate  (Oct. 2017)

* Ocean heating provides quickes guide to determine human-induced warming  (Septl. 2017)

* Heat has killed more people in 30 years than storms, floods and hurricanes  (Sept. 2017)

* Record-setting wildfires scorch the western U.S.  (Sept. 2017)

* Twenty years of organized climate denial fueled Harvey and Irma  (Sept. 2017)

* 1,200 corporations plan to support a price on carbon  (Sept. 2017)

* National Assessment contains dire forecast  (Aug. 2017)

* "Cooler Heads Coalition" pushed Trump to exit Paris climate agreement   (Sept. 2017)

* Annual global fossil fuel subsidies top $5 trillion  (Aug. 2017)

2016 -- a year of broken records

* Massive chunk of Larsen C ice shelf fractures  (July, 2017)

* Sea levels are rising three times faster than in 1990  (May, 2017)

* Wildfires in US plains tripled over last 30 years  (June, 2017)

* CO2 concentrations hit record 410 parts per million   (April, 2017)

* As the climate becomes more unstable, media coverage craters   (March, 2017)

* Humans are forcing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces  (Feb. 2017)

* Warming is making our world both wetter and drier  (March 2017)

* Warming waters have killed large sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef  (March, 2017)

* Emotional health becoming a worldwide casualty of climate change  (Feb. 2017)

* Scientists see much earlier sudden North Atlantic cooling  (Feb. 2017)

* CO2 "new normal" not seen for 3 million years: WMO (Oct. 2016)

US PRESS COVERAGE:  A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST

* Arctic melting is causing "super cold" winters in eastern US and UK  (Oct. 2016)

* Warming is polarizing the climate (not just the people)  (Sept. 2016)

* NASA:  earth is warming faster than at any time in the last 1,000 years  (Aug. 2016)

* Oil and coal emissions have postponed the next ice age for at least 50,000 years  (Jan. 2016)

* Extreme weather has fueled a quarter of the world's recent conflicts  (July, 2016)

THE DESPAIR OF SCIENTISTS: "WHEN THE END OF THE WORLD IS YOUR DAY JOB"

* Hurtling pace of Arctic meltdown stuns scientists  (July, 2016)

* Big oil plays a Shell game with our future  (May, 2015)

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* Warmth is causing ticks to wake earler, spread further  (May, 2015)

* Special Report: From the climate scientists  50 shades of grief  (Jan. 2015)

* WAIS sheds one "Mt. Everest" every two years  (Dec. 2014)

* Geoengineering "fixes" could harm billions of people -- study  (Nov. 2014)

GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy**

* Insurers drop coverage as climate impacts spread  (Oct. 2014)

* Pentagon again issues security alarm about climate change  (Oct. 2014)

                                                                    "Beyond the Point of No Return"

* Oceans becoming acidified 10 times faster than 56 million years ago (June. 2014)

* Warming waters trigger largest marine migrations in two million years  (May, 2014)

* 2 degrees C too hot by half:  scientists (Dec. 2013)

 "Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"

* NASA ANIMATION:  131 years of planetary heating in 26 seconds (Jan. 2012)

* Oceans have stored more heat than they released since 1993  (May, 2010)