Cold Facts of Global Warming. New York Times op-ed piece captures what I’ve felt for a long time; that those denying global warming have their heads in the sand, and the sand is getting hotter and hotter.

Ambulances patrolled streets in southern Romania to pick up

some of the many individuals who fainted in temperatures

that were well over 100 degrees. Soldiers were deployed in

western Bulgaria to fight a major forest fire. At least 10

people were reported dead from the heat in Turkey. Intense

fires raged on a number of islands in the Aegean. And

wildfires in Italy consumed hundreds of acres of forest in the

southern Gargano region.

No single weather event can be attributed to global

warming. But this is the kind of terrible weather that

scientists have long predicted would accompany the

warming of the planet. That warming is not only well under

way, it is accelerating.