This year in global warming

Spring 2010 was officially the warmest on record both for Washington, D.C., locally and Earth as a whole.

Deniers can bicker about how inconvenient it all is, how it may or may not be due to human interference, or how Al Gore is a Democrat so he couldn't possibly be right, but the bottom line is that climate change is real, and it is upon us.

So what should we do?

Dan Malouff is an Arlington County transportation planner who blogs independently at BeyondDC.com. The Local Blog Network is a group of bloggers from around the D.C. region who have agreed to make regular contributions to All Opinions Are Local.