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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMajor Report: the Arctic Is Unraveling
...and still republicans persist in their systematic, corporate-funded lies about climate change. They are stripping America and the world of all creative initiatives to deal with this, and instead liberating and empowering republican-minded corporations to continue to despoil our air, land and water - and to hasten this comprehensive global disaster. If Jesus were around, he would totally kick idiotic, greedy, anti-life & anti-common sense republican ass.
From Scientific American: April 28, 2017
:The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, suggests a huge assessment of the region. The warming is hastening the melting of Arctic ice and boosting sea-level rise.
"The report, compiled by more than 90 scientists, documents the myriad changes already under way across the Arctic because of climate changefrom declining sea ice and melting glaciers to shifting ecosystems and weather patterns. From 2011 to 2015, the assessment finds, the Arctic was warmer than at any time since records began around 1900...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-report-prompts-warnings-that-the-arctic-is-unraveling1/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_ENGYSUS_NEWS
Sticky
(1,406 posts)"Climate change is melting permafrost soils that have been frozen for thousands of years, and as the soils melt they are releasing ancient viruses and bacteria that, having lain dormant, are springing back to life."
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Stupid humans are apparently down with the total extinction of our species.
2naSalit
(86,056 posts)we deserve to be eliminated by the planet after all the damage we've done in the last two centuries.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Cockroaches and micro-organisms with survive. Guess that's the point at which conscious life will begin, again.
as an ESA specialist, I am painfully aware of that fact and several others that are equally as horrid.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2naSalit
(86,056 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Trump suffer excruiatingly. My own suffering will be made more bearable watching those bastards suffer.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)SDJay
(1,089 posts)Jebus will protect us. Or somesuch.
Another example of how sickening it is to watch scum lie to rubes and have it actually affect policy that could kill us all if it isn't handled the right way.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Just think of the profits to be made in the spice trade by the Dutch East India Company.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)from real estate and become a Republican shithead.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"The first tall ship in more than 100 years will sail through the Northwest Passage this summer (2017), according to voyage organizers..."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tall-ship-northwest-passage-1.4083732