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Archive for June 12, 2016
30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming.
Jun 12th
30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar Chris Mooney June 11, 2016
“Thirty years ago we had a Republican senator who was leading the charge on addressing what he said then was a real and serious threat of climate change from the emission of gases from fossil fuel burning,” says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), recalling the 1986 hearings. “You can read through all the things that Senator Chafee said back then, and it has all been proven true. It’s very disappointing that thirty years later, there is no such voice anywhere in the Republican Senate, and if you look for a micron of daylight between what the fossil fuel industry wants, and what the Republican Party in the Senate does, you won’t find it.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
So, the question is: Who is really running things?
Is world peace just a dream?
Jun 12th
Global Warming on Speed
by Rolly Montpellier
(Ottawa, Canada)
http://www.climate-change-guide.com/global-warming-on-speed.html
Emissions – Uncharted Territory
“For the fourth consecutive year, CO2 levels have risen by more than 2 parts per million, with 2015 showing the largest yearly increase of 3.05 ppm, according to a NOAA report.
We are now pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 10 times faster than at any point in the past 66 million years, according to new research published in Nature Geoscience.”
“The dangerous climate future has arrived.”
And then, headlines on the BBC News. If we cannot sit down together to watch a sports event without breaking out in violence, then whence world peace?
“A number of British people are in hospital in France, the UK’s ambassador has said following a series of clashes between football fans in Marseille.
Violence has broken out between England fans, rival supporters and police for three days in the French port city.”