So, hard facts. Nineteen nations have set new all-time temperature records this summer. Federal scientists have just announced that we’ve come through the warmest six months, twelve months, and decade on record. A powerful new study published in “Nature” shows that global warming has cut phytoplankton populations by half in the last sixty years. It’s not left, it’s not right. It’s hot.”
— Bill McKibben, scholar-in-residence, Middlebury College, author most recently of “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet,” and founder of www.350.org, writing in the magazine “Orion: Nature/Culture/Place,” www.orionmagazine.org
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