The IPCC Smashed The Climate Change Snooze Button And Congress Is Waking Up

Much has been written about the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report this week telling us what we already knew -- our planet is hotter than it has been since the beginning of the last ice age, we're largely responsible for that warming, and many of the wildfires and extreme storms we're experiencing are related to that warming.  Letting nature take its course is most certainly not an option.  Each of these things cannot be reasonably disputed.

So perhaps it isn't surprising that within hours of the IPCC's release of its apocalyptic report, Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate voted to pass an infrastructure bill providing hundreds of millions of dollars to fund programs to prevent climate change-related calamities or at least mitigate the damage they cause.