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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 08:01 AM Apr 2019

The Last Time There Was This Much CO2, Trees Grew at the South Pole

It is palpable now. Even the most ardent deniers of human-caused climate disruption can feel the convulsions wracking the planet.

I truly believe this, given that, essentially, we are all of and from the Earth. Deep down inside all of us is the “fight or flight” instinct. Like any other animal, our very core knows when we are in danger, as the converging crises descend ever closer to home, wherever we may find ourselves on the globe.

This anxiety that increases by the day, this curious dread of what our climate-disrupted future will bring, is difficult to bear. Even those who have not already lost homes or loved ones to climate disruption-fueled extreme weather events have to live with the burden of this daily tension.

The signs of our overheated planet abound, and another collection of recent reports and studies shows things are only continuing to accelerate as human-caused climate disruption progresses.

A recently published study showed that Earth’s glaciers are now melting five times more rapidly than they were in the 1960s.

https://truthout.org/articles/the-last-time-there-was-this-much-co2-trees-grew-at-the-south-pole/

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The Last Time There Was This Much CO2, Trees Grew at the South Pole (Original Post) BeckyDem Apr 2019 OP
The only people in the world that won't admit it are American Republicans world wide wally Apr 2019 #1
It's incredible the category of topics Repubican voters excel at, isn't it? BeckyDem Apr 2019 #2
And a few other lunatics, like Jair Bolsonaro. (eom) StevieM Apr 2019 #4
Kick dalton99a Apr 2019 #3

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
2. It's incredible the category of topics Repubican voters excel at, isn't it?
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 10:06 AM
Apr 2019

They're tops is the fundie category, tops in denying climate change, tops in denying Trump is a fraud con man who has been a racist his entire life.

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