World sees first 12 months above 1.5C warming level: climate monitor

When I was 22 years old, on the advice of an old friend, I took the Dale Carnegie Course: it was literally a life-changing experience, and I credit that course with a good bit of the successes I've enjoyed in business and the media in the intervening years. In one of the early weeks of the course, we each had to get up in front of the class and act out with great emphasis this statement (almost a mantra): "I know people in the ranks who will stay in the ranks. Why? I'll tell you why: Simply. Because. They. Haven't….