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Old 05-02-2016, 05:05 PM
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"The Future Is Happening Now"

Whatever we humans do, it's gonna be too little too late.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3...-happening-now

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"Many people now think that the problem is solved since we reached a nice agreement in Paris last year ... but the negative side is that we haven't changed our behaviors," Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization, told the media recently.
Worsening storms and their greater frequency are wiping out food crops on a regular basis.

As if to underscore that point, March global temperatures crushed the 100-year-old record by the greatest margin we've seen for any month yet. February was also notably far above the long-term average, enough so that scientists described that month as a "shocker," as well as it being "a kind of climate emergency." Then, on the heels of February, the Japan Meteorological Agency released data showing that March was even hotter. NASA data confirms this increase, and also shows that March was 1.65 degrees Celsius higher than the 1951-1980 March average, while February was 1.71 degrees Celsius hotter than the February average over that time period.

NASA data shows that March was also the 11th straight month in a row that set a new global temperature record. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that is the longest such streak ever recorded.
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