Senator Whitehouse: "It May Be Too Late"

[Brenda]

It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate system collapse to reality as nightly TV news broadcasts flash floods and record-setting temperatures year-by-year with increasing intensity, but that’s just for starters.

Along the way, Earth is regurgitating decades of climate system abuse as glacial lake outbursts bury entire villages, Blatten, Switzerland and more telling yet, the world’s leading insurance companies, e.g. Allianz (the world’s largest) warn of uninsurable mortgages because of a lashing climate system. They foresee an upcoming systemic breakdown of the financial system, which is climate change’s payback, unless, as stated by insurance executives, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are stopped.

Nobody has warned of the dangers like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) who on September 9, 2025 delivered his 301st Time to Wake Up speech to the US Senate, warning of a collapsing socio-economic future because of a whacky climate system fed by the fossil fuel industry’s excessive CO2 emissions, but as he explains in some detail, horror of horrors, fossil fuel interests are now on ‘the inside’ with a complacent Trump administration as global warming’s new partner working in its best interests to exceed +2°C above pre-industrial, With the full power of the US government as an ally, global warming should be able to achieve much hotter temperatures much sooner. Then, in due course, Climate Armageddon will have its own nightly TV news show, for the full hour.

Senator Whitehouse has brought out in the open for all to hear: “It may now be too late to prevent it. It may now be too late to wake up. But I hope not… We are on the verge of a major economic shock. But Congress is lost in the moment, not paying attention. When that economic shock hits, I want people to know how and why we failed to protect them. The shock is simple: Climate change makes property insurance unpredictable. So, insurance prices soar. Insurers withdraw from high-risk regions. And fake or flimsy insurance populates the market. As the insurance market goes, so goes the mortgage market… as mortgage markets fail, property values fall.”

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My personal opinion is that no, it's not a matter of "may be too late" - IT IS TOO LATE, however...

301 freaking speeches about this - Senator Whitehouse is a true American hero. And the American MSM has covered what percentage of these speeches (other than CSPAN) compared to the hyper excessive coverage of the murder of a vastly unknown blogger and the white hood fest of the memorial and funeral for that Lying Bigot Extraordinaire blogger?

I was out of state the other day and picked up a free USA Today at the hotel. A few pages in I saw a full page photo of Kirk with the words saying something about how he is with our Lord. And yeah, I guess anyone can buy a full page ad in the paper, but it really PISSED ME OFF.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/19/senator-whitehouse-it-may-be-too-late/