Kill Magical Thinking on Climate Change Before It Kills Us

400 ppm. We're fucked. Unless the people who hold the fate of humanity on this planet Wake. The. Fuck. Up.

Sheldon Whitehouse gave this speech two days before scientists announced the milestone that announces approaching catastrophe. He was dead-on right anyway, as he has been for years.

Full transcript here.

Do you despair of persuading the gravity-deniers you know? Here's some help from PZ Myers:

Very useful: it’s a list of 154 denialist claims with short rebuttals to each. Bookmark it, everyone!