Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill Mckibben
“The incoming president of the richest country on Earth believes climate change — the deepest challenge that our species has faced — is a hoax. This obviously has endless policy implications, which we’ll spend the next four years working through — but the simple fact is what’s so amazing. Every single one of the structures we’ve built over the centuries to help us understand the world, from the National Academy of Science to the land-grant universities with their huge labs, to NASA with its satellites keeping an eye on planet Earth, have told us the same thing: Fairly simple physics means that burning fossil fuel is warming the Earth, a warming now painfully confirmed in rainfall totals, melting ice, rising sea level, and deadly heatwaves.” (11/18/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/fossil-fuel-industry-not-boss