(#5276) A long hot summer...

      I keep trying to think of another topic to write about but the weather is foremost on my mind. Hundred degree days are here and there is no relief in sight for the foreseeable future. I live in Sacramento California and we are used to a few hot days during the summer but not like this. Where the constant rate of temperature is at or above the century mark. This is different from when I was growing up. sure we had hot days but not this hot! The climate change that many voiced concern over is now here and if you still think that it is just extremists who are saying I tell you so it isn't. I am no extremists and I know that climate change is real because of the science.
     Global warming is now recording the hottest days throughout the whole planet. The average high temperature for July ever was broken 11 out of the first 12 days. This last June was the hottest recorded temperature ever for the planet. It is only going to get hotter because we have not as a planet stopped filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. We need to quit burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible and convert our energy needs to green energy systems. The longer it takes for us to convert from fossil fuels the hotter the temperatures will continue to grow.
     We are killing our planet and killing not only our species with unbearable temperatures but other non human species' are at risk of extinction. We humans created this problem of global warming beyond what could have been cyclical warming and we are not taking the solutions offered with any urgency. That is our fault and our dilemma. Too many powers that be only care for today's profits and care nothing for anything beyond their own life expectancy. We many more of us do care about the future of our planet and the species' that inhabit Earth and we need to find a way to force our logical human thinking past those who would do nothing but keep making profit.