According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans still have low levels of concern about the future impacts of climate change.
Just a little over a third of those polled said that they worry "a great deal" about climate change and global warming.
It's time to put an end to all of the pseudoscience and climate-change denial talk.
Whether Republicans want to admit it or not, not only is climate change very real, but it's also hitting us a lot harder, and a lot sooner, then we once thought.
Just a few years ago, the world's top climate scientists were saying that we had decades to address and solve the climate change crisis.
But now, we have just a matter of years to convert our energy systems from fossils to sunlight.
We've waited long enough to address the climate change crisis, and in the process, we're already creating havoc. From superstorms, droughts, and killer cold- and heat-waves to the crop failures in the Middle East that touched off the Arab Spring, climate change is here, now.
The Affordable Care Act was a big deal, but having a doctor does you no good when the entire human race is faced with extinction.
We need to mobilize our nation the way we did for World War II and jump headlong into the 21st century, thus solving the problem of the world's largest polluter and providing an example for the rest of the world. And we need to start today. Time is running out.
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