Climate change is real but there is room for debate on how to approach it.

Cost effective green energy tech will slow down the change.

But guessing a few rough decades until practical fusion power solves the problem.

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For anything serious to be done about global warming, it will have to get bad enough to inconvenience the corporate oligarchy---and that will have to be pretty damn bad. When sea level reaches the second floor of buildings in Manhattan, someone like Donald Trump (assuming he isn't still president, or maybe emperor) simply relocates to Denver or Salt Lake City. Conditions that cause suffering, death and destruction for millions, going on billions, of people, still don't necessarily effect him. When he has to relocate away from the coast, I bet he still doubles down on his denier stance.

And we'll be doing what we always do: deferring to the despots.

Check out the film "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast. There is a grand conspiracy from wealthy billionaires to paid Republican operatives, Trump campaign advisors, and Republican State Legislatures all involved in stealing the election. There is an interesting part on the Koch bros and their efforts to get the pipeline built from Tar Sands Canada to their refinery in Texas. It is a stunning film that I viewed today on You Tube. Its a long film but covers a lot of ground. What Kris Kobach did with "interstate crosscheck" is criminal and he needs to be held accountable. I think if folks across America knew the truth of what happened in the run up to the election, the protests would help land the Trump presidency in impeachment.

Quote from Thom's blog:

Although Trump dropping out of the Paris agreement was something Trump flirted with on the campaign trail, he told the New York Times after his election in November that "he would [at least] keep an open mind about it".

Nobody on the planet, except the Bigot in Chief himself, would describe him as keeping an "open mind."

Of all the many and great sins Republicans have committed against humanity, climate denial is by far the most egregious. And now we have their chosen malignant narcissist who magnanimously promises to grant the world the beautiful gift of his great intellect to decide the issue once and for all, so that the rest of us may scurry about with our lesser lives and not worry about it.

Well, he had better quit playing with his little twitter and hurry up! Humankind is rapidly losing its ability to mitigate the most deleterious effects of the worst disaster ever to threaten life on our "pale blue dot." Once Earth's average temperature reaches critical levels, when the planet begins belching out methane at an uncontrollable rate on a massive scale, it's game over. (Pat Elton #1 is absolutely correct!)

The Holocene extinction, (or what climate scientists are increasingly referring to as the Anthropocene extinction--caused by human activity) is rapidly approaching; in terms of geological time, the rate of the great die-off will be lightening fast. It will be the world's sixth mass extinction event and the deadliest. Most species, including ours, will not survive it.

In fact, it may have already begun. According to a collaborative study, including many prominent universities, published In 2015: https://qz.com/433256/a-mass-extinction-like-that-which-killed-the-dinosaurs-is-threatening-animals-today/

"A group of researches from Mexico and the US wanted to compare the rate of extinctions in the last century to what is known as the “background rate”—the rate at which species have died off in previous centuries. They found that vertebrates, or animals with a backbone, were dying at a rate 114 times faster than the overall background rate for vertebrates, based on a conservative estimate." (by Cassie Werber, June 20, 2015)

Many other peer-reviewed papers have arrived at similar conclusions, with some estimating that nearly fifty percent of land animals have been lost in just the last forty years. While many have fallen prey to human consumption, habitat loss, and pollution, a significant and growing percent are victims of climate change. https://www.ipcc.ch/

With all the oily oligarchs ("oiligarchs") piped into the White House, the bankrupted billionaire and his den of deniers are progressing exactly backwards.

Anyone who doubts that the t rump administration is anything other than a malignant fascist coup, isn't paying enough attention. This Psychopath in chief has no interest in anything other than his own power agenda. He is only a middle man in the daisy chain of command from the brilliant Psychopaths calling the shots to the psycho on the street. Being mad at t rump is like being mad at the sock puppet. If we survive this, it will serve as a historic example of the difference between agressive white supremacist ignorance and the intelligence of everyone else.