McKibben is RIGHT.

On November 29, 2012 Bill McKibben, one of the foremost activists on the issue of climate change, shared some of the following harsh realities on Wisconsin Public Radio; other statistics I'm adding: The past decade was the hottest on record in the co ntinental United States, and last July was the warmest July ever recorded in the Lower 48. Due to rising sea temperatures, the world's oceans are now 30% more acidic than they were 40 years ago, resulting in terrible damage to coral reefs, for example. The Florida reef that extends from just south of Miami to beyond Key West, I've read, is more than 90% dead already. Greenland's ice cap is melting at an unprecedented rate - last summer, more than 97% of its surface was in some stage of melting. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is breaking up, and the Arctic Ocean's winter ice cover has been dramtically disappearing in the years since satellite imagery began regularly keeping track, in 1979. According to a BBC report from last night, global sea level has risen 11 milimeters in the last two decades. Hurricane Sandy may have caused as much as $50 billion in damage to NY State alone, and our Summer 2012 Midwestern drought may have caused another $150 billion in losses. Where are all the global climate change deniers now, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy? Every single caller to "Wisconsin Talks" was in agreement with Mr. McKibben as to the basic fact that human-induced climate change is occuring at a breathtaking and shocking pace. If Canada and the US stay on track to export and burn all the oil extracted from Alberta's tar sands, it could very well be "Game Over" for Planet Earth. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/18/2012-hottest-year-on-record-federal-agency-says/