Creepy. In line with the record flooding in the Midwest, and all the tornadoes, ABC News asks some top scientists - are we living in the last century of civilization?:

Experts say that extreme changes in climate, combined with dwindling resources, famine, war and disease have the potential to create a post-apocalyptic world in less than a hundred years. Harvard University and Woods Hole climatologist John Holdrens says we cannot continue going down the same path.

“If we continue on business as usual, we are going to see more floods, more droughts, more heat waves, more wildfires, more ice melting, faster sea level rise,” Holdren said.

“We really have less than a decade to start getting this right. If we’re still dragging our feet in 2015 I think it really becomes at that point almost impossible for the world to avert a degree of climate change that we simply will not be able to manage without intolerable cost and consequences.”

As I’ve said many, many times, I think this is already a done deal. There’s no way we change the business-as-usual approach, too many vested interests in keeping things exactly the way they are now, regardless of consequences. And those “vested interests” might explain themselves, convincingly, in terms of economics; jobs. Prosperity versus enforced austerity.

And so even as we watch the increasingly extreme and frequent weather events, we’ll continue to argue over whether they really are extreme, who caused them, what might be done. And in the end we’ll simply not do enough to avert what might be rushing down the swollen river, right towards us.