Ezra Klein at the Washington Post put up this video, which uses NASA data to, as he puts it, “prove to a global warming denier that climate change is real, in 14 seconds.” Take this, deniers!
Whether humans are the agents of global warming or not—and we are, but let’s pretend this is a real dispute—all that matters is whether we can help reverse it. Whether we can dial it back somehow by putting less crap in the air. Whether we can oppose the Keystone Pipeline, oppose fracking, and oppose coal operations that burn fuel from the ground and turn it into an earth insulating canopy in the sky. You know, we can turn down the gas, or we can let that video play for 20 more seconds and collectively hurtle into Planet Oven.