BY BRUCE E. JOHANSEN
Having just emerged from yet another political campaign brimming over with meaningless twaddle, I have a gnawing suspicion that our system can’t handle serious issues. The clowns have taken over the circus, and the implications for our future are downright ominous.
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By Bruce E. Johansen
Some of the worst problems from rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have nothing to do with the higher temperatures we associate with global warming. Most are nearly invisible. Take, for example, the intensifying acidity of the oceans. We are killing the oceans by overloading them with carbon dioxide, and acidity—not temperature—is the problem.
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Earth by mid-2010 was experiencing its warmest decade, the warmest year, and the warmest April, May and June on the instrumental record. In 2010, Russia (at 111 degrees F.), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (both 126), Niger (118), Sudan (121), and Pakistan (at 129) set all-time temperature records.
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Why coal? Why here? Why now?
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A funny thing happened to the climate contrarians on their way to driving a stake through the heart of global warming last winter. It was the fifth warmest winter on the instrumental record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. The average global temperature for the winter was 54.09 degrees F.—1.08 above average.
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