Something In The Air

A Greenpeace protest juxtaposed the drowning of some of the world’s most iconic structures with Cancun, Mexico’s, rising skyline. Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

After this recent story, we maybe are just more aware of this theme and watching for it, or else there is something sticky about it:

Climate Change: A Time For Humor, A Time For Action

by TANIA LOMBROZO

May has been a demoralizing month for news about global warming. The third National Climate Assessment was released on May 6, with its bleak message that time is short if we hope to prevent catastrophic climate change. Soon after we learned that polar ice is irreversibly melting. And then there were fires and devastating floodsto remind us that, yes, we are all at the mercy of the elements.

So, perhaps it’s a surprise that May has also been one of the funniest months for climate change. On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver lampooned Americans for climate change denial and presented a “statistically representative” debate over climate change, one that reflects the distribution of opinions within the scientific community: three climate-change deniers versus Bill Nye … alongside 96 lab-coat-bearing scientists, all crammed into one small studio set: