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Related: About this forumThe March of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22002-the-march-of-anthropogenic-climate-disruption***SNIP
Let's take a closer look at a random sampling of some of the more recent signs.
Sao Paulo, South America's largest city (over 12 million people), will see its biggest water-supply system run dry soon if there is no rain. Concurry, a town in Australia's outback, is so dry after two rainless years that their mayor is now looking at permanent evacuation as a final possibility. Record temperatures in Australia have been so intense that in January, around 100,000 bats literally fell from the sky during an extreme heat wave.
A now-chronic drought in California, which is also one of the most important agricultural regions in the United States, has reached a new level of severity never before recorded on the US drought monitor in the state. In an effort to preserve what little water remained, state officials there recently announced they would cut off water that the state provides to local public water agencies that serve 25 million residents and about 750,000 acres of farmland. Another impact of the drought there has 17 communities about to run out of water. Leading scientists have discussed how California's historic drought has been worsened by ACD, and a recent NASA report on the drought, by some measures the deepest in over a century, adds:
"The entire west coast of the United States is changing color as the deepest drought in more than a century unfolds. According to the US Dept. of Agriculture and NOAA, dry conditions have become extreme across more than 62% of California's land area - and there is little relief in sight.
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The March of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2014
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DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)1. That's a great graphic...
...though the earth should probably be flipped 180 since arctic ice is melting/receding, antarctic growing.
pscot
(21,024 posts)2. This part caught my attention
Whenever we reach the 4C increase, whether it is by 2050, or sooner, this shall mark the threshold at which terrestrial trees and plants are no longer able to soak up any more carbon from the atmosphere, and we will see an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon, and an even further acceleration of ACD
God help the poor bastards who have to face that future. We shoud be parading the heads of the carbon barons around on pikes.