“If the scientists are right, a lot of people are going to die as a result of climate change.”

As the world dawdles, this problem will grow worse, and the solution will have to be more drastic, more expensive and disruptive. For that, we will have the climate-change skeptics to thank.

The Newark Star Ledger‘s Editorial Board had a terrific piece Friday:  “Face facts: Climate change is unfolding as predicted.”

It’s so rare for any major newspaper to tell it like it is that I’m reprinting the whole thing:

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The Democrats could be heading toward a defeat of historic proportions in November, but it is possible to imagine a scenario in which things might have turned out differently:

Since things on planet Earth, or, rather, Eaarth, aren’t going to so well, we’re seeing more people propose counterfactuals.

I don’t buy all of what conservative columnist David Brooks put forward in his NYT column, “The Alternate History” — the Democratic defeat is going to be grim, but unlikely to break historical records for mid-term elections — but the end is mostly dead on:

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Who ever would’ve guessed that there would be a Labor Day card for global warming.  But that is what SomeEcards are for:

But “The Onion” of e-card companies makes a serious point:  In the not-too-distant future, people are going to be amazed that anybody ever thought Labor Day signified the unofficial end of summer (see Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 “” and that isn’t the worst case, it’s business as usual!“).

In a terrific March presentation, Climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe has a figure of what staying on the business as usual emissions path (A1F1 or 1000 ppm) would mean (derived from the NOAA-led report):

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How many Gulf rigs need to explode before we realize the future lies with clean, safe energy that never runs out?

Today’s guest bloggers are CAP’s Van Jones and Jorge Madrid.

Failing oil rigs are like roaches — if you see one, it probably means that you have 1,000 more somewhere in your house.  So it is not surprise that another offshore oil rig exploded last week in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast.

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Hear Philippe Cousteau, John Podesta, John Doerr and others

The third annual National Clean Energy Summit is being webcast tomorrow.  You can view the live stream of this event here.  They have a good lineup of speakers:

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