More bad news about glaciers — and therefore sea levels

[AverageJoe90]

17. It's really not so much the warming itself,

(IPCC records actually show that we've largely stayed on track for the average predicted increases, and not quite as warm as Hansen predicted back in '88) as more like some of the knock-on effects are coming on quicker than even the scientists predicted, particularly the ice melt in the Arctic.

But instead, once the first warnings were issued, and deliberately "don't want to be too alarmist," oil industry PR kicked into overdrive on so many levels-- starting the "there is lots of doubt" talking points, encouraging more consumption of oil with giant hummers and "Morning in America" thinking-- we're great! we don't have to cut back! -- and all kinds of delay.

Definitely true, and it didn't help that dishonest hacks like Christopher Hooker and others kept claiming that even moderate action on climate change would destroy the world economy(which was and still is blatantly untrue, but I don't expect them to give a fuck anyhow), and many other pieces of bullshit they've been spewing of course.

Thank goodness more people are getting out there to protest and push for change now.

Very true.