The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 16th May 2016
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‘Clean green NZ’: what a sick joke!
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/new-zealands-increasing-use-of-fossil.html
The probability of staying under recently-agreed-to 1.5oC increase in average temperature is now zero.
And with practically all governments paying lip service to environmental action whilst promoting environmental destruction, the probability of staying below the ‘critical’ 2oC is rapidly approaching zero.
‘April 2016 was the hottest April on record globally – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records.
The latest figures smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever recorded.
It makes three months in a row that the monthly record has been broken by the largest margin ever, and seven months in a row that are at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month. When the string of record-smashing months started in February, scientists began talking about a “climate emergency”.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/16/april-third-month-in-row-to-break-global-temperature-records
+100 ….yes it is quite alarming the heat for this time of year and the lack of birds and bees
….this from Johnm on the Standard:
‘Risk From Abrupt Climate Change is Enormous’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaIjs5lC3U
“Published on Feb 25, 2016
People (public, politicians, even scientists) are terrible at evaluating RISK. As a result, society makes many stupid choices and fails to worry and deal with the most serious problems. People need to worry a lot more about abrupt climate change, which dwarfs all other risks…”
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