Via Lynn Hasselberger

on Jan 31, 2013

Colbert on Climate Change: The New Abnormal. {Video}

Hurricanes, wildfires, record heat? Oh my!

Get used to it.

I was shocked when I recently saw a new poll that found “78 percent of respondents believe the planet had warmed over the past 100 years”. The other 22 percent burst into flames.

~ Stephen Colbert

Mr. Colbert also said:

Even Koch brothers-funded climate change skeptic and hairbrush denier Richard Muller has done a 180, now stating global warming is real, and “humans are almost entirely the cause.”

And…

Give up. Crawl into bed with a cheesecake and wait for death. And now, sure, the only thing worse than global warming itself might be knowing you’re destroying the planet, and doing nothing…

Here’s what President Obama said about climate change… 

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Lynn Hasselberger lives in Chicagoland with her son, husband and two cats. She loves sunrises, running, yoga, chocolate, reading and writing, and has a voracious appetite for comedy. The founder of myEARTH360.com, Lynn is also a marketing consultant and writes for her blogs I Count for myEARTH and LynnHasselberger.com. She's a treehugger and social media addict who you'll most likely find on twitter (@LynnHasselbrgr, @myEARTH360 and @IC4ME) and facebook. She hopes to make the world a better place, have more fun, re-develop her math skills and overcome her fear of public speaking. Like her writing? Subscribe to her posts.