Did A Generation Ever Love Its Descendants Less?

2014 was the hottest year on record, and 14 of the record 15 hottest have been in this century.  The 1998 El Nino year was the only other.

We have comforted ourselves in the selfish expectation that any results of our actions or inactions about the environment will only manifest significantly after we are gone.

Truly, we will be judged as evil idiots.

Are we not setting our world up for sudden, dramatic climate change?  The release of so much methane as the tundra and arctic regions thaw will accelerate climate change, probably geometrically. Already, places which once had moderate winters have severe ones now because the arctic is not warm enough to keep the cold air there, leaving the cold air blasts to sweep down.

Oh wait, the Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee says that only proves that global warming isn’t happening. Oklahoma, can’t you do better?