More Confirmation of Global Warming: Butterflies, Heat Waves, Wildfires

San Francisco Chronicle: "UC Davis Professor Arthur Shapiro, considered one of the most prominent butterfly trackers in North America, said Monday he has found fewer butterflies this year than at anytime since he came to California 35 years ago."

Elizabeth Kolbert's book, "Field Notes to a Catastrophe," talks about migrating butterfly populations and the impact of climate disruption. It's all there in the computer modeling. Al Gore mentions it as well in his film, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Meanwhile the nation is broiling in its hottest half-year on record. No wonder the Toxic Right has backed off questioning whether global warming exists. Now their argument is so what, there's no proof humans are causing it. Gore puts the lie to that canard as well.

Still, you wish the cloth-eared media would start to connect the dots. To write entire articles about heat waves and not once mention the term global warming seems not just thick-headed but irresponsible. Remember when the press' responsibility was to inform and enlighten?

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood