@RL_Miller has been hunting up all the climate zombies in Congress, but no one has breathed a word about the impending Climate Zombie Apocalypse.
The details aren’t fully revealed yet, but we have some sense of what is coming ...
The problem is just below the surface for the moment, like the fifty year old Centralia, PA coal mine fire.
But it’s going to burst into public awareness like the Darvaz gas fire which has burned non-stop for the last thirty five years.
This year’s Russian fires are a probable sign of what’s to come - thousands dying from the heat, crops failing, and what was once the breadbasket of Asia now becomes a net grain importer.
Pakistan, so well covered by Laughing Planet & Co. is facing a disaster of biblical proportion. There are at least two thousand dead, a thousand times that many are in danger due to post flood conditions, and we may never have a full accounting; the government could well collapse due to the floods of 2010.
Arctic sea ice reached it’s third lowest extent ever in 2010. The previous records were in 2007 and 2008 - this is statistically significant. First it was starving, cannibal polar bears cross breeding with grizzlies, now the walruses have abandoned the ice. Both species likely face extinction.
The lack of ice cover might mean that the snowpocalypse in the spring of 2010 wasn’t an outlier - the frigid temperatures and prodigious snowfall may be the new normal. Heating and snow removal costs will skyrocket.
And still our rotten, useless Republican Congressmen prattle on about the uncertainty of the science, or they simply deny it outright. These Climate Zombies are being tracked now, but something has to be done to hold them accountable for the mess we are passing off to our children. Our equally rotten media will certainly find a way to blame President Obama for failing to warn/act/save the country once the true nature of this disaster, now unfolding in his first term, becomes unavoidable even to our foolish talking heads. We need to deal forcefully with their failings as the fourth estate, too.