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Mondavi

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Tue May 6, 2014, 03:06 PM May 2014

Humanity's Destruction of Earth's Climate in Ninety Seconds

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Humanity's Destruction of Earth's Climate in Ninety Seconds

As carbon emissions concentrate in the atmosphere, the planet is burning up... and fast.

That is the well-known bottom line when it comes to human-caused global warming and climate change.

Over the course of April, according to the world's premiere atmospheric monitoring station Mauna Loa, Hawaii, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the concentration of carbon averaged more than 400 parts per million for the entire month for the first time in human history.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06



Note the many interesting comments below the article

Either our rulers (they certainly aren't our government) are malevolent or they are as mad as hatters.



'We're Screwed': US Climate Report says Era of 'Normal' Over

Sen. Bernie Sanders: "It is no longer acceptable that coal and oil companies spend millions of dollars to defeat efforts to protect the planet."


That was how 350.org co-founder Jamie Henn responded to Tuesday's release of the federal government's National Climate Assessment, the national scientific community's definitive statement on the current and future impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

Compiling the efforts of 300 leading climate scientists and experts, the message is "bleak" as the NCA details how human-caused global warming is being felt "here and now" nationwide.

“I just hope that we convince as many people as possible that they live in a dynamic climate, that the old normal is broken and we have no idea what the new normal is going to look like when all of this is done.” —Gary Yohe, report co-author

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06-2


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Humanity's Destruction of Earth's Climate in Ninety Seconds (Original Post) Mondavi May 2014 OP
Oh, the thread title isn't a prediction of imminent doom - it's the duration of the video. Make7 May 2014 #1
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