The North Pole Is Now in a Death Spiral

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The North Pole Is Now in a Death Spiral
KEVIN DRUMNOV. 17, 2016 9:50 PM

Speaking of broken things, apparently we've broken the North Pole:

Something is totally off. The Arctic is super-hot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia...“It’s about 20C [36 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia,” Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/north-pole-now-death-spiral

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1. The planet

Will soon be dead.

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3. The planet will recover

Humanity...not so much.

[Else You Are Mad]

7. The planet has been...

Much hotter and much colder than this. What soon will be dead is humanity and most of life as we know it. The planet will survive and in 65 million years, scientist of whatever species will be trying to determine what happened.

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2. It's China's fault.

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4. When the gulf stream changes

there will be some huge issues, especially for Western Europe. The UK is at about the same latitude as Labrador.

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5. And the Mango Mussolini is still in denial

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6. Yup

Most people are wildly underestimating what Trump’s win will mean for the environment
Updated by David Roberts and Brad Plumer Nov 14, 2016, 9:21am EST


Federal climate policy will all but disappear; participation in international environmental or climate treaties will end; pollution regulations will be reversed, frozen in place, or not enforced; clean energy research, development, and deployment assistance will decline; protections for sensitive areas and ecosystems will be lifted; federal leasing of fossil fuels will expand and accelerate; new Supreme Court appointees will crack down on EPA discretion.

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/11/14/13582562/trump-gop-climate-environmental-policy

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8. He isn't in denial...

He just doesn't care. He knows that there is money to be made regardless of the harm, and that is what he supports.