The Many Costs of Climate Change
Of course the Trump administration will do anything in its power to bury the discussion about climate change and its terrible costs.
But in the case of the shut-down of NOAA, we’re talking about the hard, direct costs like rebuilding after fires and hurricanes.
The long-term costs in terms of loss of land mass, displaced populations, wars fought over increasingly scarce resources, and the disease and deaths associated with pathogens released by melting permafrost are terrifying, but are impossible to pin down.
The most tragic part of life in the United States is that about half of Americans have become indifferent to the truth of a certain statement, if it comes from Trump or one of his lackeys.
In a recent post about the meme at left, entitled 
These folks write: Clean Energy Powers Homes and Lowers Energy Bills in America. Encourage President Trump to support Clean Energy Tax Credits that Power America.
There is no law that says you can’t do what Santa Claus on the left says he’s doing. The challenge, however, is that a 1000 Watt solar PV array will take 16 days to charge the typical Tesla with its 100-KW-hour battery. If that sounds like an appealing idea, go for it.
It’s been said that the difference between Trumpists and progressives is that the latter group is concerned about the welfare of other people, regardless of whether or not they themselves are being oppressed.
According to Trump, “We are losing nothing.”
Until recently, “nauseous” meant “causing nausea,” and the correct form of the word at left was “nauseated.” Now, because it was so often misused, it’s acceptable to use “nauseous” in the sense shown at left.
We Americans live our lives surrounded by constant reminders of the hypocrisy of the far right wing “Christians,” and incidents like a change in papal leadership serve to heighten our awareness of all this.
