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2. It could be that Chris was concerned for his new baby's future?
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:26 AM
Sep 2018

Folks don't want to hear the bad news and how dangerous the environment will become for their children. (Even my 31yo phd physicist son doesn't want to hear me or his dad expound on the dangers.) Besides, it's probably bad for msnbc ratings.

The guy said it was difficult for him, knowing the truth, because this is his profession. And yet he has to write about it every day. I remember when first reading and absorbing all the bad news, how I went for weeks in such a depression that I'd go into intense crying bouts. And we've seen many DUers who are in denial of the extent of climate change and to what dire measure we MUST take to mitigate it.



Temps in the Arctic remain way above normal, which will release more methane from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean.
This is a feedback mechanism. I sat in a theater one evening watching Star Wars and began crying because a scene in the movie reminded me what's going to happen to earth, not in our lifetimes but in our children's. This knowledge is crushing.


Here are the "101 Top Web Resources on Climate Change"
https://www.environmentalsciencedegree.com/climate-change/
From general climate change news to specific scientific information.


Thanks, BigmanPigman.


If you have a strong stomach, read this - or if you value your peace of mind, don't....
https://www.environmentalsciencedegree.com/climate-change/

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