What's it going to take? Losing New Orleans didn't do anything to spark a conversation, let alone spur action. Atlanta and Charlotte coming pretty damned close to running out of drinking water didn't do anything but lead the wingers to stand in front of the Georgia State House to pray. Australia is now in what seems to be a permanent state of drought.
People aren't going to get climate change until West Antarctica or Greenland go, and have Wolf Blitzer leading us with video of the Potomac reaching the White House steps. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
One shudders to think of the consequences of submerging much of the Jersey shore, home as it is to refineries, chemical plants and old manufactures. Same for Texas City and the Houston Ship Channel. Somehow I doubt that a bath is what the environmental doctor ordered here. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
