Global warming is really a misnomer—it’s about to cause colder winters in Britain, for ince, because the melting ice is diluting, and cooling off, the Gulfstream. What we’re seeing here is climate change on an unprecedented, global scale, resulting in whackier, unpredictable weather that fluctuates from one extreme to another. Or as Marie of Green Fertility says, “Three blizzards in Denver? Snow in Texas?” Add increased droughts, floods, hurricanes, heatweaves, species extinction, and disease and you might get a better picture of why the almost-benign term of “global warming” should be far less comforting than it sounds.
The fact that 13 percent of Americans have not heard of global warming or climate change fills me with unimaginable dread.
