Climate change

In the last few weeks, we received confirmation that concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere have risen above 400 ppm for the first time in 5 million years. It's more than doubled in the last 50 years, a period that we've been burning fossil fuels at unprecedented rates.
Some still cling to the idea that climate change is natural, but that completely ignores science. There is no natural phenomenon that correlates to the dramatic increase we've seen, and that standpoint ignores this indisputable fact: burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
You may recall a group called 350.org. Their goal was to stop CO2 from rising above 350 ppm, a level that most scientists agree will lead to global temps shooting past 2 degrees C increase for our planet. That could be catastrophic, yet we just blew by that like it was standing still. And we're still rising.
We've only seen 1 degree F change in the last 100 years - but Mother Nature is just getting warmed up.
Again this week, we've seen a massive tornado do damage in Oklahoma. Of course, tornadoes have been happening for quite some time, and this article points out that climate change may, in fact, reduce the number of tornadoes. However, climate change is affecting the frequency and intensity of all storms - whether floods, or blizzards, or hurricanes, and we can expect it to continue. Just here in Missouri the last three years, we've bounced from floods, to drought, to floods, in dramatic fashion. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
What can we do about it? For one, we have to admit the connection between man and the rise of CO2. And then we must find a way to transition away from burning fossil fuels for energy.
Climate change is big and scary, and it requires us to do things differently. But there's no reason to pretend like there's nothing we can do about it. Doing nothing is the sure path to finding out we were wrong, and paying for it with our lives. I'm sure that will be much worse for business than any action we might take.