Unprecedented Flooding in Louisiana and Texas indicates a worse problem:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Climate Change will destroy humanity and most life on Earth, faster than anyone realizes it will. Diverse species are intricately intertwined with each other and the environment.

Think It’s Hot Now? Just Wait

By HEIDI CULLEN AUG. 20, 2016

July wasn’t just hot — it was the hottest month ever recorded, according to NASA. And this year is likely to be the hottest year on record.

Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have occurred since 2000, as heat waves have become more frequent, more intense and longer lasting. A study in the journal Nature Climate Change last year found that three of every four daily heat extremes can be tied to global warming.

This map provides a glimpse of our future if nothing is done to slow climate change. By the end of the century, the number of 100-degree days will skyrocket, making working or playing outdoors unbearable, and sometimes deadly. The effects on our health, air quality, food and water supplies will get only worse if we don’t drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions right away.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sunday-review/climate-change-hot-future.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FGlobal%20Warming&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. Thanks for five fast recommendations. Viewers obviously enjoyed the short documentary

It's comments that propel readership at Democratic Underground, though. Paid trolls, who work online for large oil companies, can criticize the scientific findings to earn money and friends! Maybe we can get an Exxon advertisement to appear on the Opening Post! I bashed both Exxon and British Petroleum, at Democratic Underground, after catastrophic oil spills. At least the US Federal government -powered by citizen complaints - forced the companies to clean up their messes, to some degree.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Great example of Elected

Leadership in the Gulf States kowtowing to the Oil and Gas Industries. Still is"I got mine,now get off my lawn".

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. One world leader in the video could teach those nasty corporations an expensive lesson on pollution

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While China has a veritable army of proficient internet cleansers; they were ordered to preserve these images.
http://www.demilked.com/city-pollution-china-environmental-issues-photography/
Pollution in Beijing has made one of the worlds most ancient and beautiful cities in the world, almost uninhabitable:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-is-tackling-its-pollution-crisis-by-changing-the-level-of-what-it-says-is-unsafe-a6890786.html

Even The City of Light has sunk into the darkness of pollution. As large forest fires continue to destroy ancient trees, on an international basis, deforestation, smoke and poisonous emissions, continue to drastically alter rainfall and oxygen levels, on a worldwide basis.


Air quality in the EU: Environment MEPs call for tougher new national caps on pollutants

As air pollution is responsible for around 400,000 premature deaths in the EU yearly, Environment MEPs on Wednesday tightened up Commission plans and called for more ambitious national caps on emissions of six main pollutants, such as sulphur dioxide, particulate matter and nitrogen oxides in order to cut emissions by 70% across the EU and save €40bn in air pollution costs by 2030. MEPs also want to include emissions reduction ceilings on mercury, and a midpoint target for most caps of 2025. http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/new_zealand/press_corner/focus/focus_items/air_quality_eu_content_en.htm

[Wellstone ruled]

5. This photos remind me of

London in the early 50's. The photo of a I-phone and smut do thick one could cut it is priceless.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Do readers realize, Chinese media is publicizing this worldwide problem?

In most advanced nations, accidental arson can lead to large fines and imprisonment. US roadways are lined with cameras.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. What folks do not understand is,

This smut or smog travels along the jet stream and it really affects the weather patterns in California and the interior of the South West.

[malaise]

3. Fools die for want of wisdom

I'm just sorry for those who are trying to do something about it but have nowhere to go

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. Others are dying for want of water

Starvation also triggers all kinds of crime-related problems.

What Brazil’s New President Means For Its Environmental Laws

As it is now customary in multiple countries, Brazil requires environmental assessments prior to construction projects. But the Senate is now considering a bill that would give fast-track status to projects like roads, dams or ports deemed in the national interest by the president. That would allow developers to move forward simply by saying an environmental impact study is in the works, but bar agencies from halting the project once construction begins. Moreover, there is a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate environmental licensing altogether...

For environmentalists, these proposals are ludicrous, as Brazil is still grappling with the aftermath of the collapse of an iron ore dam that caused the largest environmental disaster in Brazilian history. https://thinkprogress.org/what-brazils-new-president-means-for-its-environmental-laws-1e950f258269#.s30n8p27n

More than half of Brazil's tree species are threatened with extinction

[malaise]

7. And meanwhile they are privatizing our water to

multinationals - think long and hard about that.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

26. Please elaborate on "multinationals privatizing" our water?

[Saviolo]

28. Here's a story about that:

Local communities and environmentalists are begging the Ontario government here in Canada to stop Nestle from drawing millions upon millions of litres of water per day from Ontario aquifers during the drought we've been going through:

http://marketbusinessnews.com/refuse-nestle-water-taking-permit-ontarian-environmentalists-urge/142481

And they pay $3.71/million litres of water they pull.

Another article from Canada's national newspaper:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nestle-continues-to-extract-water-from-ontario-town-despite-severe-drought-activists/article31480345/

the CEO of Nestle made some comments that water is not a human right, though he partially walked that back:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-privatisation-of-water-nestle-denies-that-water-is-a-fundamental-human-right/5332238

[boomer55]

8. The elephant in the room? Human over population

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Yep! It also lowers the value of human life.

Moyers: What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if population growth continues at its present rate?

Asimov: It will be completely destroyed. I will use what I call my bathroom metaphor. Two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have the freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want, and stay as long as you want, for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in the freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, "Aren't you through yet?" and so on.

The same way democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are the less one individual matters.

Issac Asimov, quoted in A World of Ideas by Bill Moyers (May 26, 1989), p. 276

What about our densely packed cities? See the following:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. Another great solution to overpopulation; Rats, mice and the Black Plague!

Unlike threatened species on the planet, AIDS mutates at such a rapid rate, a cure remains unlikely. With such a long gestation/ infectious period, the virus allows unsuspecting carriers spread the deadly disease, at a rapid rate.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. Large governments like the USA, China, England, France and Russia have a plan for that problem:

These governments and others, especially in the Mid-East, have spent trillions to solve the problem; and media helped! WE ARE FINALLY ABLE TO CREATE LARGE NUMBERS OF REAL, LIVE TERRORISTS! These suicidal freaks, who think they are Holy Warriors, will rapidly reduce that pesky over-population problem. Neither Russia nor China are immune.
Terrorism through a child's perspective

The Russian plane that had taken off from Egypt, headed for St. Petersburg, crashed in the desert. A Russian investigation has now determined that the plane was destroyed in the air by a bomb smuggled on board by ISIS. Russian President Putin has vowed to hunt those responsible and bring them to justice.

[IronLionZion]

12. Several governments are encouraging citizens to have more babies

6 Creative Ways Countries Have Tried to Up Their Birth Rates
http://mentalfloss.com/article/33485/6-creative-ways-countries-have-tried-their-birth-rates

Can government incentives reverse falling birth rates?
http://national.deseretnews.com/article/1769/can-government-incentives-reverse-falling-birth-rates.html

POLAND PAYING FAMILIES TO HAVE MORE BABIES
http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/poland-paying-families-to-have-more-babies

And here in the US, the christian conservative groups encourage large families and oppose birth control

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. If Trump can make sure all members of large, conservative families are well armed; Problem Solved!

The Trump Final Solution: Race Wars

Other US citizens will be forced to buy weapons - or flowers - to protect themselves from right-wing militias, who are willing to occupy property illegally, kill people and loot, when necessary.

For now, the Trump family only brags about endangered species they slaughter, not accidentally dead business rivals, at construction projects. Most workers and many subcontractors at large construction project are minorities. Trump tends to keep subcontractors in court litigation, instead of paying them. Eventually, many of his rivals lay-off all their workers and go bankrupt, without the protection Trump legal teams construct to prevent loss of his expensive personal property.



TRUMP DEFENDS HUNTING ENDANGERED SPECIES
Teflon Don and his sons robustly defend their big game hunting and boast of numerous endangered elephants, leopards and other animals, they slaughtered in Zimbabwe.

[ErikJ]

14. We might have to live underground

I dont know what we'll eat though.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. Worms.

Give them time to poop out what's inside them and they're ready to eat!


I've never tried them, so maybe they're not too bad? Survivalists like John "Lofty" Wiseman claim they're better when cooked.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

17. With soil depletion an aspect of Climate Change, larvae of insects that bite humans have potential

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Mosquito larvae, maggots and grubs of large biting flies will flourish! Yummy!

[Ford_Prefect]

16. Have you ever heard of Soylent Green?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

19. Wasn't Soylent Green an old movie?

What was the name of the old doomsday movie, where a bunch of zombies, who were religious zealots, were trying to kill the only person on Earth, who could cure their disease?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. No. SPOILER!

It was about an overpopulated future in which the government secretly turns dead people into food.

[Ford_Prefect]

22. No, not Omega Man(1971). Soylent Green was 1973, contained no zombies but had too many people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film combines the police procedural and science fiction genres, depicting the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

[Jeffersons Ghost]

25. Soylent Green IS people! They had become cannibals

But the food - made from humans - should have been red or brown like blood.

[klook]

23. These maps are scary as hell

Fourteen of the hottest fifteen years ever have occurred since 2000, and it's only going to get worse. I'll be dead before the heat becomes unbearable for most of the year in much of the country. But I pity the younger generations who will suffer because of our stupidity.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. Plenty of other natural and man-made events could accelerate Climate Change...

The problem is that no one is willing to take major steps to reduce a worldwide extinction event that is associated with Climate Change. Currently, species are vanishing faster than they did during the period before and after the Chicxulub Event. The meteor simply finished off numerous species of dinosaurs, which were already in rapid decline.

[Motley13]

27. Global warming is a hoax spread by China

as the maggot says, that is enough reason not to vote for someone that stupid.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

29. In fact, like scientist in other nations, Chinese scientist agree Climate Change is a big problem

Trump is a sociopath, who only cares about himself. If he becomes president, his supporters will become his victims. The trust his supporters have for Trump will make them the easiest targets for his scams. While the term "Global Warming" seems accurate, some scientist suspect certain areas might not continue to grow hotter.

As jungles, which surround the Earth's largest river vanish, an area some scientists refer to a the Lungs of the World, becomes an arid zone that lacks potential to support indigenous life-forms. In Brazil, species are vanishing before scientist are able to name them. Tropical rain forest are a driving factor in balancing weather systems, rainfall and even oxygen production.

Climate disruptions, on a planetary scale, as Earth is currently experiencing, creates a butterfly effect, where seemingly minor events trigger increasingly dramatic consequences. Critical results of an initial incident become progressively less predictable, as unrelated factors continue to modify the cause and effect scenario.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

30. why did this Opening Post get more attention than comments on racial and gender equality?

FEMALE "SUPERMAN" WILL NEVER GIVE UP!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028117108

At any rate, this comment is a great way to add both of them to my journal.