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AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:30 PM May 2016

The stupid fuckers wouldn't listen -- so let them asphixiate along with their families, pets and

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ocean and land animals, and eventually the whole world.


The information provided at the link was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the American Geophysical Union journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.



U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has made the climate change issue his first priority calling it a "dire emergency". The National Science Foundation has just released a report showing that climate is changing more and more rapidly as non-linear processes accelerate the damage. Loss of oxygen is one of the most serious problems surfacing in my lifetime, getting worse with each passing year. That is why this presidential election is so critically important. It may already be too late, but if not, the steps to stop it must be drastic, and immediate.


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/nsf-ept042916.php

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raging moderate

(4,297 posts)
1. Thank you for crediting Giovanni Gentile with the fascism=corporatism equation.
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:37 PM
May 2016

I thought it was odd when I read the earlier attribution to Benito Mussolini, because I once read something by Mussolini in which he proudly coined the name "fascism" for his system of government by corporations. I had not run across Giovanni Gentile, and your explanation makes much better sense.

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
4. What does this have to do with the topic of this post
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:46 PM
May 2016

Please clarify.

Also, I didn't see "the earlier attribution to Benito Mussolini."

This post is about how oxygen is disappearing from the oceans and the earth.

Qutzupalotl

(14,300 posts)
11. rm was referring to your sig line. nt
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:24 PM
May 2016

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
2. The scientists from Collaborative for Health and the Environment
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:37 PM
May 2016

say that "inertia" got us where we are.

I would add "greed".

I wished that those nearly four thousand members were activists, but they insist that they can't be scientists if they are activists.

When they start losing the ability to breathe, I wonder if that will change.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. No thanks, I am pretty sure it's not just the deniers that will suffocate.
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:38 PM
May 2016

usedtobedemgurl

(1,134 posts)
5. The "only" problem with that....
Tue May 3, 2016, 12:47 PM
May 2016

is the innocents suffering (children and pets) and all of the rest of us who believe! Why should we all go down because of the ignorance of a few?

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
6. Because the 1% of those who profit from petrochemicals do not want to believe in climate change
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:05 PM
May 2016

and they control everything. OLIGARCHS remember. They own this country, its politicians and the decision-making process is corrupted by their money.

Yes, like Sanders says, it's the first priority for him and it is a MAJOR EMERGENCY.

Sick and stupid bastards everywhere just think he's a silly boy. Hillary lovers don't care that she doesn't have much to say at all about climate change...and I don't think she is capable of seeing the big picture.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
7. But...but...Sen. Inhofe tossed a snowball in the Senate!!!
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:15 PM
May 2016


And that makes everything okay! Doesn't it? I mean, a snowball tossed in the Senate? That makes everything okay!
Right?

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
9. When he starts to turn blue, maybe he will send DU a "selfie"
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:19 PM
May 2016




Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
8. Loss of OCEAN oxygen is very different from the non-loss of ATMOSPHERIC oxygen
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:18 PM
May 2016

Your post is badly wrong about people "asphyxiating".

The article is about ocean oxygen levels being depleted. There are many different chemical reactions and life interactions involved there compared to the atmosphere.

All the same, the loss of ocean oxygen is a serious problem.

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
10. I think you need to read the entire paper, the remarks of the scientists, and the comments from
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:21 PM
May 2016


those who actually conducted the study.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
13. I did read the paper. That's how I knew that your damn OP was badly wrong!
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:29 PM
May 2016

YOU read the paper. The paper is about OCEANIC oxygen, not atmospheric oxygen. You can't point to anything in the paper that says people will asphyxiate or that atmospheric oxygen will significantly deplete. Read the article for comprehension. It is not difficult to tell the difference between ocean and atmosphere.

The paper does NOT say people, pets, and land animals will asphyxiate. They will NOT asphyxiate.

Your original post is badly wrong and makes little sense. So I went to read the paper just in case I missed something. I didn't. Here is your Original Post:

The stupid fuckers wouldn't listen -- so let them asphixiate along with their families, pets and
ocean and land animals, and eventually the whole world.

The information provided at the link was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the American Geophysical Union journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has made the climate change issue his first priority calling it a "dire emergency". The National Science Foundation has just released a report showing that climate is changing more and more rapidly as non-linear processes accelerate the damage. Loss of oxygen is one of the most serious problems surfacing in my lifetime, getting worse with each passing year. That is why this presidential election is so critically important. It may already be too late, but if not, the steps to stop it must be drastic, and immediate.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/nsf-ept042916.php

Kaleva

(36,294 posts)
12. IMO, it's already too late and we ought to concentrate on trying to adapt.
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:26 PM
May 2016

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
14. Locking
Tue May 3, 2016, 01:33 PM
May 2016
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