Our Planet's Primal Scream -- Is Anyone Listening?

[agent46]

Our Planet's Primal Scream -- Is Anyone Listening?
~Barbara Boxer

How much more do we need to know about the devastating effects of climate change before Congress takes action?

In California, the first six months of 2014 were the hottest on record, and 82 percent of the state is currently experiencing extreme drought. And the situation is expected to get worse -- recently scientists predicted that 2014 will end as the hottest year ever recorded. Experts also tell us that climate change has tripled the probability that the drought-causing weather conditions will continue.

This historic drought is contributing to more frequent and intense wildfires. In the past, California's wildfire season lasted about three months out of the year, but now it is virtually year-round, and that is straining our state's budget.

Disturbing pictures in Alaska showed 35,000 walruses -- almost all females and calves -- stranded on a beach. They should have been able to use the Arctic sea ice to dive for food, but the ice is gone. Temperatures in Alaska's North Pacific Ocean are the warmest ever recorded, and the amount of Arctic sea ice shrank to one of its lowest levels on record. According to new peer-reviewed findings, the warming waters and melting ice have also led to sea levels rising at rates unprecedented over the last 6,000 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer/our-planets-primal-scream_b_6043706.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000048

[belzabubba333]

1. this planet is not sounding a primal scream- the planet is fine and will be fine and it

will get better faster once it gets rid of the bacteria infecting it

[Xipe Totec]

2. It's just a fever. It will pass. nt

[The Stranger]

3. The U.S. Republican Party is the greatest threat to life on planet Earth as we know it.

And as I type those words and think about:

1. The world's only hyperpower (and most prolific polluter, currently and historically) being hijacked by a group that denies overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and prevents corrective policies;

2. Launches wars unilaterally, displacing millions and wreaking havoc on regions, states and peoples;

3. Provides war machines and materiel for various groups all over the world to terrorize, kill and maim;

4. Continues to promote policies that favor deforestation and the destruction of wildlife habitats;

5. Supports genetic tampering and manipulation of the food supply all over the world; and

6. Prevents simple policies seeking to scale back human overpopulation.

. . . I don't think that it is really hyperbole.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Washington DC is where great ideas go

to die.

[bigwillq]

5. K and R