The headline to that story is this:
Climate change is real, man-made, and no amount of disbelief will change that.
Here is a link to that front page story: Climate Change Is Real.
Here is another equally true, and even more important, statement:
No amount of misplaced belief in the two-party system will save us from our stupidity. The two-party system is not the solution to our problems, it is the cause.
The Framers knew that there was a fatal flaw in our system of government and they warned us about it. They said that if this flaw were allowed to run free, as it has been for more than two centuries, it would destroy our system of government which would in turn destroy liberty.
They put their warnings in writing. You can read all about it. It is in plain English. The most important of those who warned us are George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. If we cannot believe them who can we believe?
Each of the persons just named had their own way of warning us, but Franklin, well known for his pithy statements, put it this way. As the delegates to the constitutional convention were leaving they were saying their goodbyes, when a woman approached Franklin and asked: “Well, Dr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us, a monarchy or a republic?” Franklin replied, “You have a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” Now you may wonder why Franklin’s words constitute a warning, but they do. But we have ignored his warning, as well as the warnings of Hamilton, Madison, Washington, and John Adams. Instead we have created a fairy tale that we teach our children as if it were a fact.
I first became we had been warned when I was taking an elective course on the Constitution taught by a Constitutional scholar, a law professor at Baylor’s Law School. When I asked him to explain the very plain words of James Madison, he calmly gave us the fairy tale—and I believed that he believed it. But it is false, and this lie, this error if you prefer, stands between us and the preservation of our civilization and our species.
In summary, all of the men I named in this comment warned us that using elections to delegate the power of the people to a few men elected by the many, leads to the formation of factions (groups of aggressive, selfish, cunning men who join together in pursuit of government power which they can use to work against the common good. They were literally describing the two-party system, and they said that system would destroy us.
Recognizing the onrushing catastrophe of global warming is a long overdue first step, and I am truly glad to see it at last. But that is not enough. We have finally recognized that we have created a world that threatens our civilization and our species with hot, poisonous gases. Electing a group of self-interested, egotistical politicians will neither reduce the heat, nor scrub out the poison.
The STEM institutions, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, have served humanity for thousands of years. They did not cause our problems, and they are the only institutions that can save us. But, we, the people, will never give them power and other resources that they need to do the job. Instead we will childishly rely on the GREEB institutions: Government, Religion, Education, Economics, and Business to save us from our stupidity. The STEM institutions rely on rational thought. The GREEB institutions rely on false ideologies, turning our nation into a place that is safe for shamans and other frauds, and unsafe for rationality.
Our present predicament is exactly what the Framers warned us about and which they described. George Washington predicted, with astonishing clarity, the rise of Donald J. Trump and the acts he has performed. You can look it up.
This key aspect of our history, which has been ignored for centuries was predicted by the Declaration of Independence, a memorandum written by James Madison before the constitutional convention, by George Washington in a letter to his nephew as the proposed new Constitution was being sent to the states, by Benjamin Franklin as I mentioned above, by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in several Federalist essays, and by George Washington in his Farewell Address. There have been many observers since those early days who have seen the danger and its causes, but nothing has been done. Not only do we ignore global warming but we ignore the only tool we have to combat it.