It's early July, 2012, and this week the Midwestern U.S. is socked in with an enormous heat wave. This isn't unexpected, even in the course of the greater Global Warming (yeah, let's call it that). It's simply our turn. This happened to Australia in their summer of 2010, remember that their summer is is in January. It happened to Asia (especially Russia and Pakistan) in 2010. Moscow often broke 100 degrees F, which is either extraordinarily rare or has never happened.
This weather pattern will be hitting the Eastern Seaboard this weekend, which means it will actually matter.
And yet most of our corporate media sees nothing wrong:
THIS is the defining moral issue of our time, and yet we just keep whistling past the graveyard.
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