Discussions about climate change are off-limits while Trump is president. Another climate-change scientist resigned from the Department of Agriculture when the Trump administration refused to publish his research paper about rice losing nutrients. The researcher credits the change in rice DNA to climate change.
Young Republicans are bucking Trump’s climate change edict. They know climate change is not fake news. College-age Republicans see and feel the changes brought on by fossil fuels and human negligence. Mr. Trump continues to support the oil industry and his fossil fuel agenda, according to the New York Times.
But the realities of climate change are hard to ignore for most people around the world. Life on Earth won’t be the same in 10 years. A recent news report from Greenland claims 11 billion tons of ice fell into the sea in one day in July. According to climate scientists, parts of cities like Miami and New Orleans will be under seawater by 2030. And the news reports coming out of Russia isn’t much better. Temperatures in Siberia and other parts of the Arctic are hot enough to melt the ice twice as fast as in other parts of the world.
The permanently frozen ground in Siberia holds a plethora of information about life on the planet before the previous ice age. The permafrost also holds free radicals that have the ability to invade humans and create diseases that will create new challenges for the medical world, according to the Times.
The melting permafrost has other secrets to show the world. The remains of prehistoric wolves and woolly mammoths continue to show up along coastlines as the permafrost melts.
Siberia is the Kingdom of Winter, but that Kingdom is not the same as it was fifty years ago. The melting permafrost changes the landscape. It knocks down houses and destroys roads. The excess water rolls corpses from their graves, and it threatens villages as waves eat away the melting coastlines. The people living in Siberia want the cold to come back. They don’t comprehend the radical changes that continue to alter their way of life. But the Arctic is their home.
Mr. Trump doesn’t care about those people or the millions of Americans who will lose their homes to the Earth changes that are too far along to stop, according to the Times.
