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This news should shock the world, but it hasn’t even appeared in most media. In the US, we actually have a significant group of people who are claiming that CO2 isn’t a greenhouse gas. This is wilful ignorance and frank insanity. A large minority simply ignore the reality or consider it a political issue. Nature, however, doesn’t play politics. Nature is numbers and nothing can change that. Right now, we are on the brink of a precipice. The only thing that can save us is concerted international action, which is unlikely to happen. In fact, the whole climate that our civilization has counted on for its entire history could fall completely apart more or less at any time.
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We weren’t concerned that Grover Cleveland, FDR, Eisenhower and Kennedy had mistresses, that Mrs. Roosevelt, LBJ and both Bushes swung both ways, and we shouldn’t care about politicans’ sex lives unless the law is broken. Had we been obsessed with this irrelevant issue, we would never have had FDR, LBJ, Eisenhower or GHWB in office, and we would have lost some fine leaders. We wasted a lot of money on Bill Clinton’s sex life. Why do we let ourselves care about things that aren’t important? Give me a president without a sex life and I will give you Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Get the picture? Great leaders tend to be oversexed. It’s part of what makes them great. So let’s just accept it like grownups and move on.read more