Climate Change Report Shows Things Going From Bad to Worse - TIME
Even as Congress belatedly tackles legislation that would cut U.S. carbon emissions and international negotiators have bickered over a global climate deal in Bonn, a new report by several federal agencies underscores the truths that too often risk getting lost in politics: global warming is real, it's happening now and if we don't act soon, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic. (Read "The Human Cost of Climate Change.")
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...But while there are arguments to be made against cap and trade, what's increasingly certain with every new scientific report is that the time for empty talk has expired.
Negotiating a solution — between members of Congress and between the nations of the world — won't be simple, but as the environmental author Bill McKibben wrote in a June 11 review in the New York Review of Books, that might be the easy part: "The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain." Facts are facts.
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