How much more dire will we let things get?“

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another. For sure there was no effort to “misdirect” the attention of the public from climate change to information technology during the 1990’s. Advances in information technology during the 1990’s certainly had enough attractiveness of it’s own. When we consider the deterioration of our climate during the 90’s, however, it certainly appears like we were distracted by something. The last time the world was 2 degrees warmer, sea level was 6 meters or 20 feet higher. How else could we allow things to get as dire as they’ve become?

The real question is how much more dire will we let things get?

“I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
T. S. Eliot — The Waste Land

Following are key climate change events that took place during the decade of the 90’s:

• 1990: The first report of the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) finds that the planet has warmed by…