Help! The world is on fire!!!!

I officially deny climate change....now call the fire department.

Riddle me this……..there is a small town…..just a few people remaining out of as many as 5000 in 1962 in Centralia, Pennsylvania. It was once a coal mining town until a controlled burn of the local dump set fire to a vein of anthracite coal. There are now seven people living in the town, all property of the town having been taken through imminent domain, and all buildings save for the seven homes destroyed by the fire below, which occasionally breaks through to the surface. All services are provided by the state and county and there is no nothing in Centralia. In Centralia, an accident 54 years ago set fire to a planet, the center of which IS fire.

And it still burns today. Over HALF of the worlds supply of anthracite coal comes from that region and that fire will burn until it runs out of fuel. All efforts, private and government, to extinguish the fire have failed, and it continues to spread and consume everything along the anthracite veins under the surface.

This week Leonardo di Caprio and Al Gore both visited the President elect. Lenny gave the President elect a copy of his almost unseen movie on man made climate change, and who knows what the hell Al Gore, whose work in the field of man made climate change has been roundly debunked by science, did while he was at Trump Tower. I am sure it was worth the cost of the admission. This week Tucker Carlson also handed a California Social Justice Warrior her uneducated ass in a televised discussion that included the appointment of the Oklahoma Attorney General, a vocal climate change “denier”, to head the EPA. THAT conversation proved that once again the area of Climate Change Science is the ONLY field of science where actual science does not matter (well, perhaps we can include abortion).

And I have a hard time taking this shit seriously. Assuming that man made climate change WAS a real thing and it WAS an existential threat (unlike the existential threats that actually DO face the US), why should we POSSIBLY think we could impact the issue in any meaningful way, when we cannot put out a half century old fire in our own back yard?

It makes no sense.

But none of it does.