That was the headline in today’s Sunday Review section of the New York Times. I mean, really. The polar ice caps are melting. The Amazon rain forest continues to shrink. Drought in Syria is a main cause of instability. The Aral Sea is no more. The coral reefs are dying. The oceans are rising. The Everglades are on fire.
And Trump and his appointees actually deny that global warming is real. Not that it is caused by humans, mind you, but that it isn’t real.
Yesterday our grandson marched in the parade in Chico, California, defending science. I am so proud of him, but I never thought we would need demonstrations defending the scientific method. As one of the signs said, “One dark age is enough.” How did we ever reach this point?
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