Mercury rising: India records highest temperature ever

[WhiteTara]

Source: CNN

(CNN)India recorded its highest ever temperature on Thursday when the heat in the town of Phalodi, in the western state of Rajasthan, shot up to a burning 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

It was the second day in a row the town experienced temperatures in excess of 50 degrees Celsius.

Other towns in the state, like Churu, also recorded highs of about 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.
In New Delhi, the capital city of India, the temperature reached nearly 47 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.

The previous temperature record in India was held by Alwar, also in Rajasthan, at 50.6 degrees Celsius (123.1 Fahrenheit) in 1956. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest temperature ever was recorded at 56.7 degrees Celsius (134 degrees Fahrenheit) in Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/asia/india-record-temperature/

[phazed0]

1. Apparently doesn't matter..

According to the policies of Hillary. Gee, thanks!

[Botany]

2. Good God in Butter

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/05/18/hillary-clinton-u-s-must-lead-the-global-fight-on-climate-change/#2a7a2f516b0e

Troll much?

[phazed0]

3. She has only just recently shifted left....

And is likely just pandering to popular opinion instead of genuinely interested in helping in the fight against Climate Change. Also, let's not give Hillary Clinton the credit for "planning the fight" as that's Obama's plan sent to congress in February: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/ of which it is likely will not pass Congress.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/hillary-clinton-leftward-shift-climate

Leading from behind and all that.

TPP, Clinton says Yes to the "Gold Standard" - barf.

[Botany]

5. "She has only just recently shifted left...." no she hasn't

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/


You are either a troll or you are looking for a fight where none exists.
Hot temps in India? It must be HRC's vault.

HRC has a long history of talking about green energy, the climate and jobs.

Her honest talk about the coal business has cost her votes too.

[phazed0]

7. Lol. Please. Why not post a more reputable site than the liar's own?

Let's see how long she has been conveniently on the side of helping Climate. When did she finally denounce KeystoneXL? Hmm. How convenient for her political run.

http://environmental-action.org/blog/lip-service-clintons-green-plan-bad-news-for-brown-communities/

At a time when scientists are telling us that we must leave 80 percent of fossil fuels in the ground to avert the worst case scenarios of climate catastrophe, Clinton’s platform is the antithesis of the “Leave It In The Ground” Manifesto. Further, it would increase investments in fracked-gas infrastructure instead of a renewable energy revolution. To choose to plow countless dollars and jobs into building a new generation of pipelines and export terminals, when the clean energy economy is already creating more jobs than the fossil fuel industry is ridiculous.

Clinton’s plan even considers technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a long-since unproven technology with no future in a global warming action plan. We need to vastly reduce the amount of global warming pollution we produce, not invest in technology that doesn’t work and can only be used by our worst polluters. Further, we all know, based on our country’s legacy of targeting Black and Brown communities for the placement of toxic waste, where CCS facilities would likely be situated — certainly not communities like Chappaqua, NY.

Bernie Sanders Will Ban Fracking. Hillary Clinton ‘Sold Fracking to the World’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-will-ban-fracking-_b_9156182.html

Less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton attended a gala fundraiser in Philadelphia at the headquarters of Franklin Square Capital Partners, a major investor in the fossil-fuel industry, particularly domestic fracking. The controversial fracking industry is particularly powerful in Pennsylvania, which will host the Democratic National Convention this July.

Clinton has avoided taking any clear stand on fracking...

The pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record, run by David Brock, touts Clinton’s aggressive pro-fracking record.

Bernie Sanders never accepted money from corporations involved in fracking, and certainly never accepted money from prison lobbyists. His challenger, on the other hand, is linked to oil and gas contributions that span across the globe. According to Reuters, “the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative have accepted large donations from major energy companies Exxon Mobil and Chevron.” Clinton’s foundations also accepted money from an office of the Canadian government linked to promoting Keystone XL.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe—part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/the-holes-in-hillary-clintons-climate-plan-120682#ixzz49DFGLEWd

“Clinton’s climate plan is remarkable for what it doesn’t say, yet,” California-based environmental activist R.L. Miller, who founded the Climate Hawks Vote PAC, said in a statement. Specifically, she added, Clinton offered “no effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground, no price on carbon; no word on Keystone XL, Arctic oil or other carbon bombs; no word on fracking.”

Don't be gullible people.

[Botany]

9. Well she is gonna be the nominee .... end of story

Are you going to vote for her or not vote and support Trump?

[phazed0]

10. So shift the subject?

Hell with the fact your candidate isn't for you. I see.

[LanternWaste]

12. Shifting the subject seems less an indictment than moving one's own goalposts

Shifting the subject seems less an indictment than moving one's own goalposts (from "she won't" to "she shifted her position&quot .

However, I understand the desire to hold others to a higher standard we hold ourselves to-- it's less complicated to an undisciplined and biased mind.

Good luck! Wishing you well!

[phazed0]

20. Lol, making a case based purely on semantics..

Way to go, what a winning strategy. Any opinion on the OP or will you continue to ignore the important bits? Hmm.

[Botany]

13. Yes, I changerd the subject.

Are you or are you not going to vote for HRC in Nov.? And do you want
a President Trump?

Because from where I sit you seem like a troll trying to stir up shit.

Global warming in India? Let's blame HRC.

[erlewyne]

17. I'm voting for Bernie Sanders

I do not support the DNC.

If we are so stupid to vote foe Trump then we deserve him.
Take our medicine.

I will write BERNIE SANDERS on my ticket.

[Botany]

25. A vote for Bernie is a vote for trump

[erlewyne]

42. O.K., it's a deal

At least he is honest.

[Sunlei]

30. Your 'ticket' will be thrown away in the trash if you write name of someone not on a ballot.

Do you think Bernie Sanders would EVER tell anyone to do that?

You'll have to ask for a "special Ballot" & not use the computer to vote, so you can hand write on it.

May as well not vote at all.

Do you think Bernie Sanders would EVER tell anyone to do that?

[erlewyne]

43. Throw it away!

I will not vote for the DNC.

[phazed0]

18. I am also writing Bernie in. nt

[Botany]

26. A vote for Bernie is a vote for trump

[phazed0]

29. A vote for hillary is a vote for Trump

[Sunlei]

31. Do you think Bernie Sanders would EVER tell anyone to do that?

[Plucketeer]

22. I'll be writing in Sanders' name

if it comes to that. AND.... if it gets us Trump, then that's JUST the medicine that the DNC needs to pull its head out of its backside. Some of the better medicines taste like hell. Right now, we have the establishment banking on the ignorance and apathy of this nation to be able to execute the coup they're striving for. LOL! Just LOOK where DS Hillary's money's coming from. The powerful don't care WHO we send to the WH so long as they own the selectee.

[Botany]

27. " ...if it gets us Trump, then that's JUST the medicine that the DNC needs..."

I don't give a shit about the DNC but about America, the World and the SCOTUS if
Trump gets in. Remember w bush's "fun run?"

[Plucketeer]

32. Did you read the whole post

or just pick out what served you? There was this also: " we have the establishment banking on the ignorance and apathy of this nation". See - I'd read this line and have the savvy to realize that the word "nation" exceeded DNC. It would be nice if there were NEVER any deaths on this whirling rock. But that's not a valid hope given the history of humankind's rise and flourish. No matter what the aims are for good, there's going to be casualties - and not necessarily physical deaths.

I'm really finding it quizzical that there's NO reference back to the time of this nation's independence. When I mentioned it in a thread yesterday, I was backhanded with the facts that the founding fathers were slave owners, so how could I compare todays impending dooms to those cretins??? WTF??? When DOES the nice world start - or does it EVER?

[Duppers]

11. And...

It's strange for someone whose favorite group is E&E not to have known this.


Good job, phazed.

[snort]

15. Just the second E,

if you please. Clinton's choice of hangouts in Iowa are telling.

[Botany]

28. I have devoted much of my adult life to the environment thank you very much

n/t

[JDPriestly]

16. What is the problem with this sentence?

"HRC has a long history of talking about green energy, the climate and jobs. "

It's the word, "talking." She was with Bill in the White House for 8 years.

We had to wait until Obama to get a garden in front of the White House that reminds people of the importance of our food and the fact that we won't be able to grow enough food to feed us if the temperatures keep rising as they are.

We had to wait until Obama to get solar panels back on the White House.

The Clintons, neither of them, are environmentally as conscious as we all need to be at this time. I do not trust Hillary on this issue, not at all.

Bernie will really take steps to bring consciousness about the environment home to the American people. Hillary will not.

It's unfortunate that so many Hillary supporters are unrealistic about who Hillary really is.

Read this and notice that the Clinton administration is not mentioned.

Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the White House roof when he was president in the late 1970s. When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, one of his first actions as president was to have the panels, which his chief-of-staff allegedly said Reagan felt were “just a joke,” removed. The panels ended up at Unity College in Maine, where they were installed on the roof of the school’s cafeteria.

But as famous as the Carter installation — and subsequent Reagan removal — was, it was George W. Bush administration that installed the first active solar electric system at the White House (Carter’s panels were largely symbolic, though they were used for heating water). In 2002, multiple solar grids were installed on the White House grounds. The installation was done quietly, with far less fanfare than Carter’s, but the panels provided energy to several White House operations. According to a New York Times article from 2003, “a grid of 167 solar panels on the roof of a maintenance shed has been delivering electricity to the White House grounds. Another solar installation has been helping to provide hot water. Yet another has been keeping the water warm in the presidential pool.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/15/2242481/solar-panels-white-house/

The Clintons did nothing about improving solar technology at the White House although they could have. We need far more of that technology here in the Southwest. We have so, so, so much sun.

[reddread]

6. how do the saudis feel about global warming?

now you know HRC's actual future policies.
youre welcome!

[forest444]

8. I would imagine they're all for it.

It's no secret they'd the rest of the world to look like Saudi Arabia: cheesy, flashy, backward, and hot as hell.

[Sunlei]

33. They sumited a plan to the global meeting & already move to diversify their oil economy.

Solar and wind, they desalinate their close sea water using solar power.

Their countries climate change will mean more flooding, so they will use that flood runoff for a growth in agriculture. To green-up deserts. The Saudis have made plans for the past decade.

[reddread]

37. I certainly feel better about their prospects thank you

I would not want them to pay the full price for their achievement.

[Sunlei]

38. I doubt the USA will ever catch up to other 1st world countries, lets hope we don't move into 3rd.

We're really only a major disaster or major epidemic away from real problems for American citizens.

[reddread]

39. which part?

[Sunlei]

41. which part? education, medical care, food safety, inequity, is that what you meant?

have a good day, I'm going to the beach.

[reddread]

45. the rich or the poor?

I dont think they will be living in the same world for a while.

[NickB79]

36. Hillary has pushed fracking (and it's subsequent methane leakages) for years

Actions speak louder than words, and Hillary's actions have been God-awful up to this point.

And if the estimated leakage rates from these wells are even close to accurate, converting from coal to natural gas derived from fracking could actually be making climate change WORSE, not better.

But sure, Hillary cares about climate change. Whatever you say

[Sunlei]

40. State Gov. controls their mining/fracking. Why did Pa. Government allow land owners to lease?

Why didn't the State Government force the Corps to clean up their mess?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "There is no global warming!"

Limbaugh's hot air is a contributing factor

[yuiyoshida]

14. If this was Arizona or down south, I wonder

if Republicans would feel any different about climate change? I am guessing not.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Does Modi believe in global warming?

[Recursion]

23. Yes

His plan for it is kind of vague (the "smart cities" initiative; nobody can actually figure out what it concretely means).

He also doesn't want an arbitrary emissions target; his argument is that controlling population growth is more important than controlling per capita energy use, and controlling population growth requires economic development.

[Jack Rabbit]

46. Thank you

I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that he actually believes in global warming. I'm not at all surprised that he's doing little or nothing about it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. There are going to be parts of the world

that are just not habitable. The whole near east is just turning into a huge desert. Water shortages are becoming commonplace in those areas.

People are just going to have to learn to adapt or move to other areas.

Humans can't survive in that kind of heat.

[Sunlei]

34. There will be some parts of the world with much nicer weather then today.

We have to move the crop growing areas to all the places that will have much milder winters. People can adapt.

[Warpy]

35. They can if there is plenty of water

Unfortunately, India is having an extreme drought with a third of its population under threat.

[leftyladyfrommo]

44. Yes. So many people live there.

And so many if them are really poor. They don't have the ability to adapt.

[Plucketeer]

24. When you're of the one percent

Even your personal bubble has A/C.