Look at the red. Climate change is real.

Astoundingly, there are still many climate change deniers in this world.

One must assume these people are either unavoidably stupid, willfully ignorant, or purposefully dishonest.

Quite possibly all three.

Either way, they are dangerous to humanity and our planet, particularly when they possess political power. The Pentagon recently declared climate change a “national security issue,” yet there are still many legislators – particularly from one side of the aisle – who prevent our country from taking action on what has become a true climate emergency.

While speaking to Congress this week, activist Greta Thunberg warned that today’s youth would not forgive denialism and inaction. “You get away with it now,” the 18-year-old activist said, “but sooner or later, people are going to realize what you have been doing all this time. That’s inevitable.”

She added, “We, the young people, are the ones who are going to write about you in the history books. So my advice for you is to choose wisely.”

For those who still deny climate change, I’ve seen nothing more compelling than this graphic, which indicates annual temperatures in the United States – broken down into rolling 30-year increments – compared to the 20th century average temperature.

It’s hard to imagine how any climate change denier could look at data like this and still claim that climate change is not real.

Yet they would and still do.

Mostly because they like money more than our planet and our future.