Anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD)
Humanity acts to pass a first of its kind international agreement on climate
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Anthropogenic Money: Human Impacts
"Apparently, impending catastrophe doesn't mean much to some of the United States' wealthiest people. Once again a report has arisen documenting how fossil fuel millionaires pumped more than $100 million into Republican presidential super PACs last year. That means that $1 out of every $3 donated to Republican candidates coming from hyper-rich individuals came from people who made their fortunes from fossil fuels. In boosting GOP politicians, these funders were simply acting to protect their cash cows from those of us who happen to give a damn about the planet."
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / IPCC 2018
A report on climate deniers in Congress in March 2016 by the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows that more than six out of every 10 Americans are represented by a Congressional representative who denies the reality of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (sometimes referred to as ACD or AGW as in anthropogenic global warming and CAGW - catastrophic anthropogenic global warming). According to the report, 59 percent of the Republican House caucus and an amazing 70 percent of the Republicans in the Senate deny ACD is real. The report also reveals that, according to the US Census, 202,803,591 Americans are represented by an ACD denier."
♦ This Congressional denial position opposes consensus science and the public's position on ACD/AGW reflects a 'democratic disconnect'.
"The general public is way ahead of Congress — a recent poll found that 76 percent of Americans said they believed global climate change is occurring, including 59 percent of Republicans. And 67 percent support President Obama’s plan to regulate power plants to cut carbon emissions.
♦ Over 3 out of 4 Americans Now Acknowledge Climate Change Is Occurring -- including the majority of Republicans (reported in Scientific American, Fall 2015)
Climate Disruption in Overdrive
- Twenty-first-century climate and sea-level change" / Nature Climate Change
- NASA / data confirming warmest month ever measured globally
- A study recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that carbon emissions are now the highest they have been since the age of dinosaurs, 66 million years ago
- Former NASA scientist James Hansen... publishing a paper showing that 1 degree Celsius was the scientifically proven point of no return
- Dozens of countries across Europe and Asia set or tie all-time temperature records
- Cities across the United States see record warm temperatures, in which the 2015-2016 winter was the warmest ever recorded
- Winter in the US, according to meteorologists, technically takes place from December through February. This year, that winter was 4.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, breaking the previous record, which was set in 1999-2000
- Every single US state has winters nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal and Alaska's winter was an incredible 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal
- The New Scientist reports in early March that earth had its highest-ever annual increase in carbon dioxide levels
- Meanwhile, melting in Greenland is occurring so intensely and quickly that it is "feeding on itself," according to a recently published study
- In North America, millions of acres of forests are struggling and under increasing threat
- Another recent study shows that food scarcity caused by ACD would cause at least half a million deaths across the world by 2050, due to food production being impacted by the effects of ACD
- The UN recently released a report showing that an ongoing decline of pollinating species now poses a very dire threat to the global food supply
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