Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben marked a landmark temperature event with an op-ed on climate change in the Boston Globe.

From the article:

Thursday, while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization.