The charts tell the story of global warming and the threat it poses to humanity. It is right up there with nuclear war:
The black line is the current trend. The 1979-2020 mean for July is the dashed line. Climate scientists think it will only get worse unless there is a drastic reduction in the burning of fossil fuels.
Florida, bless its backward heart, set a world record surface sea temperature of 101.1F just off Key Largo. Almost nothing on Earth can live in that high of water temperatures except those extremophiles that live in deep ocean thermal vents.
Despite all the warning flags Nature is giving us we keep burning. “These are not canaries in the coal mine,” Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies noted, “The canaries died a long time ago.” Bernie Sanders tells us as far back as the late 1950s, over 60 years ago, physicist Edward Teller and other scientists were warning executives in the fossil fuel industry that carbon emissions were “contaminating the atmosphere” and causing a “greenhouse effect” that could eventually lead to temperature increases “sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York.” Exxon conducted research in the 1970's the accurately predicted the extent of global warming due to fossil fuel burning, Yeah, we know it's better in Barbie land.
