\IV AA/3 L,,,,,tv1ENTARY Watch Bill's honest take on democracy and our times Anthony Leiserowitz on Making People Care About Climate Change January 4, 2013 BILL MOYERS: Welcome. So as you know, we avoided the cliff, at least for the moment. But only for the moment. A bigger Grand Canyon looms ahead, in about two months, as the government reaches its debt ceiling and can't borrow any more money. President Obama wants to lift that ceiling. The Republicans don't. And it appears we're heading for another "Thelma and Louise" ride to the edge. Remember — they went over. We'll discuss that possibility next week with Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics and New York Times columnist whose bestselling book, End This Depression Nowl calls for full employment as an alternative to austerity. Read it, then send us the question you would like me to put to Paul Krugman. Meanwhile, another reality beckons and there's a menace more threatening than the fiscal cliff ever was. What should really be scaring the daylights out of us -- the crisis which could make all the others irrelevant -- is global warming. Get this one wrong and it's over -- not just for the USA, but for planet Earth. That's the message delivered by Hurricane Sandy, and by almost all the extreme weather of the past two years. And here in the first month of the New Year, it's the message from the most informed scientists in the world. They're scared, for real. And they say that unless we slow the release of global emissions from fossil fuels, slow it enough to keep the planet's temperature from rising by two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the earth's polar ice sheets will melt away -- with catastrophic consequences. Time's running out. Not one, but two major scientific reports in the last few weeks have concluded that the rapid increase in fossil fuel emissions makes that increase of two degrees Celsius all but inevitable. This headline in the National Journal spells it