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Cassi Creek: Today is
warm, partly cloudy, and another step closer to the point of no return, when
global climate change proves that we are not going to like the effects of rising
sea levels, oceanic warming and current shifts, and widespread drought with
crop failures.
The number,
intensity, and frequency of severe storms is expected to increase worldwide. We are already logging an increase in
tornadic storms occurring in locations that have rarely, if ever, seen
them.
California’s
current drought is going to demonstrate that overpopulation will generate
demands on the sources of water available that will not support combined demands
for industry, agriculture, and drinking.
We’ve allowed ourselves to forget that the western half of North America
is technically a desert. Irrigation
farming on desert lands is depleting the aquifers of much of the Mississippi
Valley.
The
GOP/teavangelists continue to trumpet their disbelief that climate change,
driven partially by human presence on the planet, is taking place. Their refusal to acknowledge science-based
conclusions that contest with their religious indoctrination is not only making
us look ridiculous in the eyes of the developed nations, it is pushing us into
global disaster at a dangerous rate.
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