I don't understand how folks can believe false claims lacking any evidence while dismissing facts staring them in the face.
I'm talking about many claims by Trump and his minions versus evidence of climate change. We've known that CO2 is a greenhouse gas since 1896 and climate scientists have been warning about its effects for 50 years. Farmers who reject it still move their planting dates forward. Glaciers are melting. We have unprecedented forest fires. And our warming oceans have spawned more and weirder hurricanes. Yet a certain political party still doubts its reality. Both our senators recently voted against additional money for FEMA so it can handle the next catastrophe.
MAGA Republicans seem to only worry about the short term and winning, but they're not concerned about the world their grandchildren will inherit. Well, friends, global warming has been gestating for 200 years, and it won't stop growing even if nobody ever added another molecule of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. It takes decades to get CO2 out of the atmosphere, and the slope of the track this particular ball has been rolling down won't start to level off until it does. Even when it flattens its momentum won't slow it down for decades. Things will get much worse before they improve. Depending on Antarctica, Miami could share Atlantis' fate.
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Think about who has worried about your grandchildren's, and their grandchildren's, world when you vote.
Bill Prange, Lincoln