The Huffpo has a good collection of articles around this coming global crisis. All of them are worth reading. As you can see Time magazine is now on board the global warming boat. The majority feels that this is a important issue and deserves immediate attention. We on the progressive side need to continue to hammer on this issue and remind everyone we can of how our government has ignored this issue since day one and even punished those who spoke out.
From Time.com
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry—a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180 m.p.h.—exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage...
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