Global warming (many now call it "climate change", but I think that's just a way to present it as less harmful) is showing up in our lives and costing us.

See excerpts below from an article by John Heilprin, Associated Press on September 6, 2007 on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued the same day:

     "Earlier snowmelts, longer summer droughts and bigger Western wildfires on federal lands are being caused more by 'climatic conditions than land management techniques,' government investigators conclude."

     "A report Thursday by the GAO found the Interior Department has 'not made climate change a high priority,' despite a 2001 order to include climate change in land management planning.  Since 1850, the glaciers in Glacier National Park have declined from 150 to 26, and both summer and winter temperatures are increasing in the park. Some projections say the park's glaciers will be gone within 25 to 30 years."

     "Low-lying areas in the Florida Keys have been hit by rising sea levels already, bringing more saltwater onto the land."

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Bring to mind American citizens in California and other states that have lost their homes this year to wildfires.  Let's say you can give them the opportunity to turn the clock back 10 years if they agree to significant energy policy changes that will reduce the effects of global warming (let's say, for example, a tax shift at the federal level from income to non-renewable energy).  What do you think they would say?

Same question, but ask it of someone that just learned of a high-voltage power line (or electric power plant) that will be situated near their neighborhood to meet increased demand for electricity.  What do you think their answer would be?

The point:  THEY are US.  We just don't get it yet.  We sit here today - similar to the way those in the hypothetical situation above did before they got a chance to turn the clock back.

Our clock has been "turned back."  What are we going to do??