Friday, July 20, 2012

Recommended: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

The August 2 issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an article worth reading: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. As the world swelters through the hottest summer on record (quote from the opening paragraph):
June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average.
the political and economic forces of the world continue on as if nothing were happening, and the climate change deniers (many of them politicians) continue to hold steadfastly to their view that this is just "natural variation".

The current economic problems in Europe and the US are getting all the attention, but the changing climate is probably a far, far worse problem, with far more significant consequences in both human and economic terms.