Snow in Dubai
It snowed in Dubai this past weekend. No, not the fake snow that the obscenely rich oil emirate routinely manufactures for its decadent desert ski resorts, but real, honest-to-goodness snow.
For only the second time in recorded history, according to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, The United Arab Emirates has experienced a “natural” snowfall. I wish we could just sit back and enjoy the rich, ironic humor contained in this weather update, but, as luck would have it, we happen to share an atmosphere with these lovely oil producers.
Climate change is real and it is here. Not only is it real, but a newly released study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America says that climate change is basically irreversible.
As study author Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and one of the world’s foremost climate scientists, explains, “People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide that the climate would go back to normal in 100 years or 200 years. What we’re showing here is that’s not right. It’s essentially an irreversible change that will last for more than a thousand years.” Continue Reading…
