ELEVEN DEGREES IS A LOT

By ALEX DUNBAR

This shit keeps getting worse and worse. I can’t tell if we’re being fucked with by the scientific community or what, but the steady rise in predicted temperature elevation’s getting scarier everyday. The University of East Anglia along with the British Antarctic Survey now predict an 11 degree rise in the next hundred years. For those of you keeping score, that’s twice as hot as some of scariest projections presented in Al Gore’s movie. Over the last century, the Earth’s temperature rose a measly 1.3 degrees, but still we lost %25 of the Arctics Ice. As you’ve probably noticed, humankind has basically decided to take an extended fart break instead of actually addressing the most critical issue ever to face our species. Because, you know, what would happen to the economy if we stopped emitting CO2 and started actually pursuing alternative fuels, creating hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process? All those super-rich 1%ers might have to sell off their mega yachts, and then what kind of world are we living in? If we’re not going to mitigate, we’re forced to adapt, which (please believe me when I say) will suck ferociously.