February 28, 2014

For the Climate, For Clean Energy and Healthy Communities: We March | Common Dreams

For the Climate, For Clean Energy and Healthy Communities: We March | Common Dreams

"A recent report funded by the Central Intelligence Agency says the climate extremes we’re now seeing are early warnings of more disasters to come.“Unexpected changes in regional weather are likely to define the new climate normal,” says Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

The vast majority of scientific academies agree that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to more intense heat waves, extreme weather, rising of sea levels, ocean acidification, and the melting of the glaciers. No wonder Secretary of State John Kerry’s finally admitted recently to students and civic leaders in Jakarta: "Climate change is the world's largest weapon of mass destruction"."