"Terrifying New Math"

I just read a fantastically frightening article in the most recent Rolling Stone by Bill McKibben, no stranger to the effects of climate change. In the first few paragraphs, he writes:

"Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history."

Yikes. And it goes on from there. I don't really understand humanity's denial of hard data on climate change, but then again, I'm a scientist. These kinds of numbers scare the crap out of me.  Go scare the crap out of yourself and give this article a serious read, here.