It has been delivered to the administration, and people everywhere breathlessly await … what? The very best outcome is that the administration will take this as a convenient excuse to bow to reality and repudiate just about everything it has ever said and done so far. I guess there’s that hope.

But really, everyone who has been open to the preponderance of past evidence and ever-accumulating new evidence has recognized this as screamingly obvious for some time now. And President Trump? Trump has had all this information at his disposal for the same length of time as the rest of us, and his response has been just that — disposal. He has rounded up a ragtag army of last holdouts on this subject, staffed his administration with them and thrown the United States of America into hard reverse on the most dangerous threat the nation faces.

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There is no way for a sane, rational person to look at this squarely and remain sane. It needs to end, and now. We will still have enough subjects to fairly argue about to keep a political system busy. This is not one of them. It is untenable and unendurable for this country to let a deliberate policy of climate change denial and inaction to last for four years. We are beyond out of time to declare a crisis-level state of emergency.