“To head off the worst effects of climate change, we need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to no more than 350 parts per million.” (On the right hand side of my weblog, the meter reads 394.49.) For the sake of future life on our planet, “the United States can’t delay any longer.”
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Global warming makes heat waves hotter and more frequent.
“The alarming fact is that this year’s minimum sea ice extent is already the 6th-lowest on record — and there’s still about a month to go in the melt season.”
Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Becomes Everyday Reality — The Race for What’s Left
“However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.”
head of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field claims that there is “no convincing evidence” that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth’s climate. On the contrary, the petition cites “substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the earth.”
End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,
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UCS/via We can’t blame climate change for every extreme weather event that slams into us, yet there’s little doubt among scientists that global warming is exacerbating heat waves, flooding, drought, and rainstorms. To illustrate that point, the Union of Concerned Scientists put together a handy little graphic that demonstrates which types of extreme weather scientists [...]
Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C., “Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. “It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.” We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon [...]
Nothing to which you should pay attention, just Destruction of Life on the Planet as We know It, move along
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