Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, Prince may have had a drug problem, and a record breaking 88,000 people have been evacuated from Fort McMurray.
If you've turned on a corporate 24-hour news network in the last couple of days, those are three things that you have definitely heard about.
But what you didn't hear from the mainstream media is that the wildfires in Alberta, and in Alaska, are directly related to climate change.
The media and the fossil fuel industry's shills won't tell you this, but there is no doubt about the fact that we are witnessing one of the most rapid periods of climate disruption in Earth's history.
The deniers will continue to sow the seeds of doubt, they'll say that the modeling is imperfect, that the science is imprecise, and that there is still disagreement in the scientific community.
But the fact is, there is now universal agreement in the real scientific community about the fact that climate is changing, and that it's cause by human activity.
And as we learn more about the nitty-gritty of the Earth's climate, as we study everything from how different types of clouds reflect sunlight to how quickly rivers will evaporate as the planet warms, one thing is becoming clearer and clearer.
The people who have been making the most extreme predictions about climate change, the so-called "alarmists", have been right all along, and, in many cases, even have been too conservative in their predictions.
And for millennials, for their children, and for the generation of teens living today: it's past time to be alarmed.
Unless we start treating this like the planetary emergency that it is, here's what's going to happen in the lifetime of a baby named "Baby Blue", if "Baby Blue" were born earlier today.
Thom Hartmann Program
Please don't say Hillary will soon shift to the 'center' when the metaphor should be she will move to the 'right.' The US is much more to the left than the media will admit. Don't help them mischaracterize the nation's position on most political issues!
Good point.