global warming

The Trees are Screaming. Why Aren’t We?

Posted on 08/21/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Your Life   Think of an area the size of two Delawares – 3,300,000 acres – about 5,000 square miles.  That’s the area blighted by the pine-beetle since the 1990′s, allowing Colorado’s mountains to explode in wildfires and devastate this national treasure. Why has this happened? Because of climate change. There, I said it. A few years ago when I was driving with my daughter back from DC to her college in California, we stopped for gas about an hour out of Denver. I could …