With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations having reached a “symbolic and significant milestone” in 2015—and with no signs of them abating this year—the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Monday that “a new era of climate change reality” is upon us.
‘New Era of Climate Change Reality,’ WMO Warns
24 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in Anthropogenic Climate Disruption
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Thanks for sharing, Cyril. Have a great week 🙂
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So sad….
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It’s beyond sad, Cindy. Can you imagine a world without those beautiful birds, flowers, and places that you share with us through your photos?
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It’s beyond sad, Cindy. Can you imagine our world without the flowers, birds, and places that you share with us through your photos?
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Scary, huh? At what point does the suicidal insistence on arrogantly denying reality become attempted murder of quite possibly all other life on the planet? Will sane, moral people need to resort to aggressive action against those in society who continue to believe in self-destruction simply due to a lack of intelligence and moral courage?
I often wonder. I’d like to believe that the ignorant hordes who hang on so stubbornly to irrational fear and hatred will eventually see the light.
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Scary, indeed! The arrests of peaceful demonstrators and journalists during the ongoing Standoff at Standing Rock in North Dakota against the access pipeline are a troubling development. [Learn more at http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/24/standing_rock_police_arrest_100_water%5D
Time is running out to wait for climate change deniers to “eventually see the light.”
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To “wait” for climate change deniers to see the light is not an option. The choices are to aggressively teach them not to fear truth and to face reality or something more “hands on”, if you know what I mean. Life is in the balance. This is no joke.
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“Life is in the balance.” I know. That’s why climate change is my number one issue when choosing our next president.
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may humans wake up
& accept reality
& it’s consequences.
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Well said, smilecalm!
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I saw this on the BBC News. It is very upsetting.
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Bernadette, it’s even more upsetting when we consider that we continue to spend trillions of dollars on endless wars instead of focusing on our transition to cleaner and sustainable energy resources.
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Rosaliene, Given that the climate change conferences and agreements are out of the control of the individual, I believe it’s important for individuals to be aware of the small but symbolic things they can do to increase their green footprints (as opposed to reducing their carbon footprints). when Savannah lost so many trees to Hurricane Matthew, it was particularly painful in light of the fact that trees are such great carbon sinks. That forests are being razed for developments, highways, packaging and junk mail, seems such an unnecessary waste.
In his book “Collapse,” Jared Diamond links failed civilizations to deforestation, which caused massive soil erosion, decimation of bird species and other crucial links in the food chain.
Before the hurricane wiped out so many of our trees, I prided myself on having a larger green footprint than carbon footprint, since I drive a hybrid car, boycott packaging as much as possible, shop with a reusable canvas bag, use a reusable coffee cup, and don’t use air conditioning.
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Katharine, I’m sorry to learn that Hurricane Matthew wiped out so many of the trees in your city. Sadly, fiercer storms are our new normal. And they will get worse with warmer oceans.
Thanks for reminding us that we all have to do our part in reducing our carbon footprint. I’d like to add cutting beef from our diet to your list.
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Agreed. I generally don’t eat meat at all. In “Diet for a Small Planet,” Frances Moore Lappe gives astounding figures about how much grain goes to feed livestock. She says there’s plenty of food to feed the starving, but something like 70% goes to feed livestock, instead. Now that grain is going to feed cars (ethanol).
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Katharine, not to mention the methane they release to the atmosphere with their farts.
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All farts contain methane, including human farts. All decomposing life forms contain methane. It’s part of the natural life cycle. Methane (natural gas) is the simplest organic molecule. “Organic chemistry” is the science of carbon-containing molecules. Carbon is the basic building block of life.
That’s why the reduction of “climate change” to CO2 and methane is too simplistic for my taste. Both molecules are part of the natural life cycle. CO2 constitutes less than 0.02 percent of the atmosphere. Water vapor may have more effect on climate change than the CO2 and methane.
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Katherin, the difference today in cattle rearing is the large scale of our operations.
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Truly. All of our industry is out of balance with what the planet can support. The focus on production, excess, and oversupply has led to exorbitant waste and consequent buildup of pollution and environmental toxins.
I’d like to see a shift towards making recycling and utilizing waste profitable. Isolated facilities, such as in Germany, are doing that.
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Oh dear. Although I’d kinda suspected it. It might sound odd, but this summer the sun seemed to literally burn my skin every time I went out. I couldn’t explain it, but it just felt much hotter. Now, I know I wasn’t crazy.
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Katherin, lots of crazy things are happening with our climate. And it will only get worse if we don’t stop pumping carbon and methane into our atmosphere.
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With big companies and lobbyists, the governments see little need to change anything that doesn’t have any effect upon “them” and their generation.
For decades smart people have been crying out from the mountain tops about Climate Change, and yet, they are dubbed as “fanatics” by those who only look at their bottom-line
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So true, Michael. I guess they’re planning on colonizing another planet in our solar system. Mars?
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Thanks, Rosaliene. If one thinks of the human race from a historically and evolutionary perspective, almost all of our history required little advanced planning by the individual. Things simply didn’t change much. You lived where you were born or close to it, did the same small set of tasks to mate, raise your offspring, and survive; and died young. Evolution ill-prepared us for the climate-change threat. It may seem like it doesn’t ask very much for people to “get” the program (and certainly many of us do), but the condition of the world is asking something more than evolution has prepared us for. Of course, looked at differently, maybe we are simply going to be the next casualty of evolution, as the dinosaurs once were — creatures that were not best adapted to the conditions of a changing time. Yikes!
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Dr. Stein, our intellectual/technological evolution advanced too fast for our moral evolution to keep apace. Unlike the dinosaurs, we are accomplices in the destruction of our species. Too smart for our own good!
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At a practical level, I don’t think one can separate these various components, although one can in the abstract. For evolution, the question is always whether we have become more “fit” on the whole — better adapted to survive and procreate. By definition, at any give point in time we either did or didn’t. Let’s hope the jury is still out. Your point re: the dinosaurs is a good one.
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Who could’ve imagined that our success at survival and procreation would be our undoing?
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Excellent point. And a good argument for all of us that the need to adapt, both personally and as a world, sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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