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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #225 on: June 05, 2015, 01:51:46 pm »
NOAA: There Has Been No ‘Pause’ or ‘Hiatus’ in Global Warming
 


http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/05/michael-mann-noaa-no-hiatus-global-warming/
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #226 on: June 06, 2015, 04:08:30 pm »
Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona 


Cole Mellino | June 5, 2015 11:44 am

 http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/05/heat-wave-alaska/
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« Reply #227 on: June 09, 2015, 06:52:29 pm »


NOAA temperature record updates and the ‘hiatus’ 

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— gavin @ 4 June 2015

In a new paper in Science Express, Karl et al. describe the impacts of two significant updates to the NOAA NCEI (née NCDC) global temperature series. The two updates are: 1) the adoption of ERSST v4 for the ocean temperatures (incorporating a number of corrections for biases for different methods), and 2) the use of the larger International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI) weather station database, instead of GHCN.

This kind of update happens all the time as datasets expand through data-recovery efforts and increasing digitization, and as biases in the raw measurements are better understood.

However, this update is going to be bigger news than normal because of the claim that the ‘hiatus’ is no more. To understand why this is perhaps less dramatic than it might seem, it’s worth stepping back to see a little context…

Global temperature anomaly estimates are a product, not a measurement

Full article with several significant and irrefutable charts at the the web site staffed by Climate Scientists.

2036AD: Fossil Fuelers discuss global temperatures... 
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« Reply #228 on: June 10, 2015, 09:16:37 pm »

1882 photo taken by G.D. Hazard; 2005 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. Courtesy of the Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology.

Before And After Pictures Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth  :(

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Agelbert NOTE: This is part one of two parts.

Almost all scientists now agree that global climate change is caused by humans, while the White House pledged $1 billion on Friday to prepare for weather disasters and other events related to climate change.

A steadily-warming planet impacts the environment in many different ways.
Rising global temperatures, largely due to man-made greenhouse gases, are the source of widely-discussed observable changes to the Earth like melting glaciers, rising sea levels, warming oceans, and more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and floods.


In the pictures that follow, we take a look at how climate-change-related events have affected regions around the world, whether directly or indirectly.

See the drastic changes »      :o


ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK BEFORE: Healthy pine trees stretch for tens of millions of acres in the northwestern United States and western Canada.



ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK NOW: A hillside of dead pine trees killed by Mountain Pine Beetles shows the effects of warming temperatures in the mountain ranges. In the past, freezing temperatures reduced insect populations. The beetles are now able to survive the milder winters leading to devastating infestations.



THE GREAT BARRIER REEF BEFORE: Considered one of the most biologically-diverse regions in the world, Australia's Great Barrier Reef covers around 135,000 square miles, or an area that's nearly the size of Texas. Ocean acidification and temperature increases from climate change are the reef's biggest long-term threat.


THE GREAT BARRIER REEF NOW: Warmer water temperatures trigger widespread coral bleaching, when coral turns white and is much more susceptible to death. Coral is vital to supporting ocean life.



THE DANUBE RIVER BEFORE: The Danube, Europe's second longest river, flows eastward from its source in Germany to the Black Sea in Romania. The Danube river basin is critical to supporting industry, transport, agriculture, and fishing.



THE DANUBE RIVER NOW: Between 2011 and 2012, a persistent drought led to record-low water levels along the Danube, stranding boats and paralyzing parts of the busy waterway.



THE ALPS BEFORE: Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest peaks, located in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland, is pictured with a blanket of snow and ice on Aug. 16, 1960.



THE ALPS NOW: The Swiss peak, pictured on Aug. 18, 2005, is eroding as a result of melting glacier water at the summit. The water sinks into cracks and creates even bigger fissures after several cycles of freezing and thawing. The disintegration of Matterhorn is anecdotal of the effects of climate change in most of the Alps.



MUIR GLACIER BEFORE: A late-19th century photograph of Alaska's Muir Glacier shows many icebergs — some nearly 7-feet wide — in the foreground.



MUIR GLACIER NOW: By 2005, Muir Glacier had retreated more than 31 miles. Although this picture was taken from the same location as the early black-and-white photograph, the glacier is completely out of view. There's an abundance of vegetation looking to the west, and the beach in the foreground is now covered by pebbles, which came from sediment deposited by Muir Glacier and by melting icebergs on the ground.



Second half of this series of before and after pictures tomorrow.   8)
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http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-before-and-after-pictures-of-earth-2014-2
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #230 on: June 11, 2015, 08:13:31 pm »
Before And After Pictures Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth   

Agelbert NOTE: This is part 2 of 2 parts. Go HERE for part 1.

LAKE CHAD BEFORE: Africa's Lake Chad, pictured in the 1930s, was once the world's sixth-largest lake. It provided water to at least 20 million people in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger.

Wikipedia/Walter Mittelholzer


LAKE CHAD NOW: The lake has lost about 80% of its surface area since the 1960s, a combined effect of irrigation, the damming of rivers, and global warming.

 AP Photo/Christophe Ena


SAN BLAS ARCHIPELAGO BEFORE: The San Blas islands in Panama are home to the Guna people. Their traditional thatched-roof houses and ancient way of life are being threatened by climate change.
 
 Shutterstock/Jarno Gonzalez Zarraonandia


SAN BLAS ARCHIPELAGO NOW: The Caribbean island communities are flooded for several days every rainy season as a result of rising ocean levels caused by global warming. In the foreground, a traffic sign reading "Slow Down" is partially submerged.

 REUTERS/Carlos Jasso


CORAL REEFS BEFORE: Corals seen in Dibba, located on the east coast of the northern Emirates, are healthy and teeming with fish in 2004.

 REUTERS/Climate change/Handout



CORAL REEFS NOW: The reef was devastated in 2008 by harmful algae blooms known as red tide, potentially linked, in part, to increased greenhouse gases and rising ocean temperatures. The tide kills sea life by depleting the oxygen in the water.

REUTERS/Climate change/Handout



WHITBY HARBOR BEFORE: Whitby, in northern England, was once a busy fishing town that was packed with boats, fish-sellers, and tourists.

 Shutterstock/Lighttraveler


WHITBY HARBOR NOW: The port is now quiet, flanked by empty pots, nets, and dried-out fishing boats as global warming has pushed fish stocks northward. Only about 200 fishermen remain in Whitby.

REUTERS/Dylan Martinez



CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS 2003: An infrared image from July 2003 shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The red areas indicate that carbon dioxide concentration is at or above 380 parts per million.



CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS 2007: The same image of the globe, taken exactly three years later in July 2007, shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising. The color bar used for 2003 had to be adjusted to account for the increase in carbon dioxide around the globe. Otherwise, the "2007 map would be saturated with reddish colors, and the fine structure of the distribution of carbon dioxide obscured," explains NASA.


BONUS: These maps compare temperatures in each region of the world to what they were from 1951 to 1980. Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 1.3°F since 1880.


 Go HERE for part 1.


http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-before-and-after-pictures-of-earth-2014-2?op=1

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« Reply #231 on: June 17, 2015, 07:44:15 pm »
Tue Jun 16, 2015 at 08:03 PM EDT.

Global Temperatures Soaring: 2015 starts off the top of the chart & El Niño is just warming up

2014 was the warmest year in global climate records but 2015 is on track to be significantly warmer than 2014. The first 5 months were the warmest on record and global models are predicting a super El Niño that could be the strongest ever measured on record or by paleoclimate proxies.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology just released a stunning compilation of forecasts from a range of global models.  The consensus of models forecasts that this will be a super El Niño with water temperatures in the equatorial central Pacific of greater than 4.5°F (2.5°C) above normal. NOAA's CFS model forecasts that abnormally warm waters will spread across the southern hemisphere.

Moreover, the deep mass of much warmer than normal water in the Gulf of Alaska dubbed "the blob" will expand to cover the whole far north Pacific.

Exceptionally warm water off of the coast of New England will continue to affect east coast weather. Extraordinarily warm global sea surface temperatures forecast for this summer and fall will bring on even hotter temperatures in the second half of 2015 than the first half. If the models are correct 2015 temperatures will spike far above 2014.

Charts and graphics at link: 


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/17/1393794/-Global-Temperatures-Soaring-2015-starts-off-the-top-of-the-chart-El-Nino-is-just-warming-up
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« Reply #232 on: June 20, 2015, 02:44:49 am »
Most Important Quotes from Pope Francis Statement on Climate Change


Diane MacEachern

June 18, 2015

Pope Francis has unequivocally proclaimed climate change to be one of the “principal challenges facing humanity.” In a letter, or encyclical, the Pope calls on citizens, politicians, business leaders, organizations—in short, all of us—to act immediately and decisively to stop climate change, renew our relationship with Nature, and “enter a dialogue with all people about our common home.”

“Nobody is suggesting a return to the Stone Age,” he said, “but we do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way.”

The encyclical, titled “Laudato Si, or Praised Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home,” took a year to produce with the input of dozens of scientists, scholars, theologians and even previous popes.

Here are the key quotes from the encyclical:

SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF CLIMATE CHANGE

“A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. … A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity.”

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE


“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.”

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.”

SEA LEVEL RISE


“If present trends continue, this century may well witness extraordinary climate change and an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for all of us. A rise in the sea level, for example, can create extremely serious situations, if we consider that a quarter of the world’s population lives on the coast or nearby, and that the majority of our megacities are situated in coastal areas.”

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ANIMALS


“Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost forever.”

We “must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.”

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE POOR


“One particularly serious problem is the quality of water available to the poor…. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity.”

“The exploitation of the planet has already exceeded acceptable limits and we still have not solved the problem of poverty.”

“The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: ‘Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.”

WAR AND NATIONAL SECURITY

“It is foreseeable that, once certain resources have been depleted, the scene will be set for new wars, albeit under the guise of noble claims.”

SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN OBSTACLE TO SOCIAL CHANGE


“When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously…. True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution.

“Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature.”

RELATIONSHIP TO POLITICS AND OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM


“There is urgent need for politics and economics to enter into a frank dialogue in the service of life, especially human life.”

“The economy accepts every advance in technology with a view to profit, without concern for its potentially negative impact on human beings.”

“The orientation of the economy has favored a kind of technological progress in which the costs of production are reduced by laying off workers and replacing them with machines. This is yet another way in which we can end up working against ourselves.”

“Once more, we need to reject a magical conception of the market, which would suggest that problems can be solved simply by an increase in the profits of companies or individuals. Is it realistic to hope that those who are obsessed with maximizing profits will stop to reflect on the environmental damage which they will leave behind for future generations? Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration, or the complexity of ecosystems which may be gravely upset by human intervention.”

OVERCONSUMPTION


“We need to take up an ancient lesson, found in different religious traditions and also in the Bible. It is the conviction that “less is more.” A constant flood of new consumer goods can baffle the heart and prevent us from cherishing each thing and each moment. To be serenely present to each reality, however small it may be, opens us to much greater horizons of understanding and personal fulfilment. Christian spirituality proposes a growth marked by moderation and the capacity to be happy with little. It is a return to that simplicity which allows us to stop and appreciate the small things, to be grateful for the opportunities which life affords us, to be spiritually detached from what we possess, and not to succumb to sadness for what we lack. This implies avoiding the dynamic of dominion and the mere accumulation of pleasures.”

WE ARE ALL ONE FAMILY


“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.”

“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE


“Yet all is not lost. Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start, despite their mental and social conditioning.”

“When we ask ourselves what kind of world we want to leave behind, we think in the first place of its general direction, its meaning and its values. Unless we struggle with these deeper issues, I do not believe that our concern for ecology will produce significant results. But if these issues are courageously faced, we are led inexorably to ask other pointed questions: What is the purpose of our life in this world? Why are we here? What is the goal of our work and all our efforts? What need does the earth have of us? It is no longer enough, then simply to state that we should be concerned for future generations. We need to see that what is at stake is our own dignity.”

WHAT WE CAN DO INDIVIDUALLY


“Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings. Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity.”

WHAT WE CAN DO COLLECTIVELY

“We are able to take an honest look at ourselves, to acknowledge our deep dissatisfaction, and to embark on new paths to authentic freedom. No system can completely suppress our openness to what is good, true and beautiful, or our God-given ability to respond to his grace at work deep in our hearts. I appeal to everyone throughout the world not to forget this dignity which is ours. No one has the right to take it from us.”



http://www.care2.com/greenliving/most-important-quotes-from-pope-francis-statement-on-climate-change.html#ixzz3da7uObwo
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« Reply #233 on: June 21, 2015, 10:14:32 pm »
Colombia: Windstorm affects banana crops


In Uraba, Colombia, more than 200 hectares of banana were seriously affected by a gale. The weather phenomenon also caused significant damage to homes in the town of Chigorodó.

According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia, the region was already on yellow alert due to the looming drought that El Niño could cause.

This implies there will be an increase in temperatures proportional to the lack of rain, which had generated alarms so that the producers took the necessary measures regarding the prevention of fires, floods and landslides.

According to estimates, there are 48,000 hectares of bananas distributed in four municipalities of Uraba, known as the Banana Axis, which accounts for more than 70% of the national production of this fruit.

Publication date: 6/8/2015

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/141071/Colombia-Windstorm-affects-banana-crops
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« Reply #234 on: June 24, 2015, 01:27:53 pm »
6 Devastating Heat Waves Hitting the Planet

Lorraine Chow | June 23, 2015 11:28 am

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/23/heat-waves-hit-planet/
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« Reply #236 on: June 29, 2015, 02:12:48 am »
Scientists Baffled Over Unprecedented Warming of Ocean Off Atlantic and Pacific Coasts

Tim Radford, Climate News Network | June 28, 2015 11:10 am

 

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/28/warming-of-ocean-atlantic-pacific/
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« Reply #237 on: June 29, 2015, 03:12:49 am »
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look at the storms, droughts, and floods we've had with a warming of less than 1oC
Can you give any actual statisics/links to back that?
Also, we have risen about two degrees since the little ice age. Basically you believe we need to stay right at some halfway point of a two degree range. When has that ever happened for a long time? :o

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« Reply #238 on: June 29, 2015, 01:59:56 pm »
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'Religious leaders have a duty to speak out about climate change':...
Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Climate Change

Cole Mellino | June 29, 2015 10:35 am

The Dalai Lama endorsed the Pope’s encyclical on climate change yesterday while speaking at Glastonbury festival, a massive five-day festival that takes place in Somerset, England. The Buddhist leader spoke at a panel on climate change, praising the encyclical and saying it was the duty of everyone to “say more. We have to make more of an effort, including demonstrations.”

Several Republican politicians have criticized the Pope for speaking out about environmental and economic issues, including Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum and James Inhofe. But at the Glastonbury panel on climate change, the Dalai Lama said Pope Francis was “very right,” and he appreciated him releasing the papal document. The Dalai Lama called on fellow religious leaders to “speak out about current affairs which affect the future of mankind.” He also called for increased pressure on governments around the world to stop burning fossil fuels, end deforestation and transition to renewable energy sources, reports The Guardian.

He also emphasized that words alone are not enough top stop climate change. “It is not sufficient to just express views, we must set a timetable for change in the next two to four years.”

The Tibetan spiritual leader also spoke about the need to end war, calling the concept of war “outdated.” The Dalai Lama said we need to shift our focus to launch a global effort to tackle climate change. “Countries think about their own national interest rather than global interests and that needs to change because the environment is a global issue.”

He also stressed that everyone needs to take action even on an individual level to reduce their impact.   

To end the holy leader’s visit, Singer Patti Smith presented the Dalai Lama, who turns 80 today, with a birthday cake and led the crowd in singing happy birthday to him. 

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/29/dalai-lama-pope-encyclical/
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« Reply #239 on: June 29, 2015, 03:03:32 pm »
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look at the storms, droughts, and floods we've had with a warming of less than 1oC
Can you give any actual statisics/links to back that?

Of course. The following web site about climate science, run exclusively by climate scientists, has all the data about global temperatures (and other statistics as well). Climate science has established empirically that free energy has to go somewhere when it is trapped in our biosphere. That "somewhere" is storm activity (that mostly impacts the poorest humans and other earthlings  ).

Here's a snippet from one of the articles at RealClimate.org:


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Figure 1: The Global Commons and the fundamental problem of climate policy: there are still plenty of fossil resources in the ground, but only a limited disposal space in the atmosphere left. Data: Atmosphere: IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report, Table 2.2.; Resource: IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy, Figure 1.7. Source: Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).


To frame the climate problem as a “global commons” problem has far reaching consequences.

This became clear when the term was relegated by the governments from the main text into a footnote in the report of the IPCC Working Group III. Some countries feared legal and distributional consequences.

If the atmosphere is accepted as being a global commons, this immediately raises the question of who owns the atmosphere and who is allowed to pollute it.

The encyclical is very clear about this:

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The natural environment is a collective good, the patrimony of all humanity and the responsibility of everyone (95).

Ownership thus goes hand in hand with a responsibility to take into account the principles of justice.

The currently prevailing “law of the jungle”, causing the atmosphere to be overused in terms of the deposition of carbon ad infinitum, is thus de-legitimized by the Pope. - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/06/heaven-belongs-to-us-all-the-new-papal-encyclical/#sthash.MYn2tGnT.dpuf


Because of our distance from the sun, we should be a frozen ice ball with our oceans totally frozen solid. We aren't BECAUSE greenhouse gasses trap Infrared energy here. It's not a matter of belief; it's a matter of the curious, but scientifically measured way in which certain tri-atomic gas molecules like CO2 and H2O handle certain wave lengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.  This is old hat.

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Also, we have risen about two degrees since the little ice age. Basically you believe we need to stay right at some halfway point of a two degree range. When has that ever happened for a long time? :o

The little ice age is not the issue here. The industrial pollution revolution IS the issue. As to global temperature increases, even the temperature increase itself is NOT the real issue with the deleterious effects of said temperature increase.

So what's the big deal? Who cares whether it is one degree, a half a degree or even two degrees or more up? After all, our climate has a natural history of going up and down. As the global warming deniers say, climate change is normal on planet earth, is it not?

All these rhetorical fun and games the deniers play in order to defend the corrupt  profit over people and planet, empathy deficit disordered, abysmally suicidal status quo neglect the central issue with our present temperature increase.

THIS is the central ISSUE: The PRESENT HIGH RATE OF TEMPERATURE INCREASE IS A BIOSPHERE KILLER.

Humans may be able to adapt to this unprecedented rapid temperature increase for a while, but the rest of the earthlings that we depend on will not. Consequently, we are acting STUPIDLY if we don't do everything we can to preserve LIFE all over the biosphere. We ARE NOT DOING THAT. 

It happened before, albeit much more slowly. And still huge die offs occurred.

So, the biosphere math tells us that we are baking in a die off GREATER than the Permian extinction (the biggest die off in natural history), never mind the more recent (relatively speaking - we weren't around then)  die offs from rapid (but not as rapid as we are experiencing today!) temperature increases.

In summary, we are stewards of the biosphere BECAUSE we are, as far as I know, the only self aware species on this planet. Therefore we MUST, as a matter of COMMON SENSE, not just morality, act to keep the biosphere in the most life preserving range of gases and temperatures. Ignoring the facts so we can keep extracting resources willy nilly is abysmally stupid, suicidal behavior. 
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