Thanks to our MSM’s misguided efforts to be “evenhanded,” a huge number of Americans actually think that the jury’s still out on whether climate change is even really happening.

Actually, the jury has already ruled, and they’ve found us guilty of gross inaction. The penalty? We’ve been sentenced to life imprisonment on a planet whose eco-system may have been irreversibly thrown out of whack by our own greed and apathy.

The final report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just been released, and as grim as its findings are, some scientists have noted that the IPCC’s report doesn’t fully take into account the latest, and most ominous, indications that global warming is spiraling out of control faster than anticipated. As British scientist James Lovelock told the International Herald Tribune:

“Sadly, even the most pessimistic of the climate prophets of the IPCC panel do not appear to have noticed how rapidly the climate is changing”¦scientists have let this potentially disastrous future steal up on us unaware.”

But is it really fair to blame the scientists? Haven’t they, “along with Bill McKibben and Al Gore,” been trying to warn us about global warming for years? We just haven’t been listening. Maybe they just need to borrow one of Spinal Tap’s amplifiers”you know, the ones that go that one increment louder, all the way to 11. After all, it looks like we’re about to go off the charts, here.