TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History (hat tip to Peter Sinclair) August 22, 1981: The New York Times reports on a groundbreaking study by Dr. James Hansen on the risks of escalating carbon emissions. nytimes/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw August 22, 2008: MSNBCs Keith Olbermann notes: While lunatic groups like [the Koch Brothers-backed] Americans for Prosperity continue to deny [that human-caused climate change is] happening, this from the Bush administration‘s own wildlife monitors off the northwest coast of Alaska: Nine polar bears were spotted swimming in ocean water last Saturday. So what? Sounds like fun, sort of. Except they weren‘t swimming near their homes on the Alaskan ice--they were swimming because their ice homes broke off or melted due to the fact that summer ice is disappearing so quickly that at this rate, it will all be gone by the year 2030. The grim reality behind what those wildlife monitors saw was: those nine bears were on their way to either dying from exhaustion or drowning. So Americans for Prosperity—keep denying and start swimming. youtube/watch?v=mwjaomthkgc biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2008/los-angeles-times-08-22-2008.html August 22, 2012: On MSNBCs NOW with Alex Wagner, Bill Nye calls upon mainstream media entities to ask pointed questions about the climate policies of President Obama and Mitt Romney in the upcoming debates. Unfortunately, his call falls upon deaf ears. youtube/watch?v=y_tXILoudWY
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:10:02 +0000
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