Political and corporate leaders ignore climate peril

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just issued a new report that says, without swift action by the world’s governments, the dire effects of climate change will be coming much sooner than expected — perhaps within two decades. As he has in the past with other warnings about how the United States and the world will suffer severe consequences if no action is taken in response to rising global temperatures, President Donald Trump shrugged it off, accusing scientists of having a “political agenda.” See more of David Horsey’s cartoons at: st.news/davidhorsey View other syndicated cartoonists at: st.news/cartoons