BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU MAKE POLITICS YOUR RELIGION: Meteorologist Eric Holthaus describes counseling, inability to function due to climate change & Trump.

But to coin a phrase, what difference at this point does it really make? After all:

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.

—“President ‘has four years to save Earth’,” the London Guardian, January 17, 2009.

Update: The Federalist’s Sean Davis diagnoses cause of meteorologist’s climate/election despair.

I wonder if the 19th century’s infamous foursome of “Bearded God-Killers” pondered just how much existential despair they were about to usher in?