So after all these years, it grieves me deeply, as it does so many others, to see climate action falling short at all levels even as climate disruption intensifies. In fact, it seems that in the past seven years, the hottest in recorded history, the Earth has flipped into a new climate regime. Extremes including storms, floods, heat waves, droughts, wildfires and polar ice loss are surging. A report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released last August confirmed this acceleration. But climate action is now stalled in Congress, and the requisite sense of urgency is lacking.Even more grievous is the prospect that the limited progress we have made in the U.S. will be rolled back, at least at the federal level.
Source: Averting Climate Catastrophe: Can We Get Here From There? – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 