How Much Has the World Warmed Already?
Channel: Climate Casino
Date: 2021-08-30

Links for today's video: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record
https://www.temperaturerecord.org/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544117/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19082

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The planet is in crisis. Everywhere we turn, there is another climate change fueled disaster.  We are headed at full speed into unknown and uncharted planetary conditions.  Survivability on planet Earth for the ironically named species homo sapiens (wise man) will not exist for very much longer. 

In case it is not yet clear to you, I am a "doomer."

In these videos, I will be covering current climate change in real time, reacting to the day's news and giving you my analysis and perspective.  These diaries are as much for the viewer to learn and keep up with the day's big disaster news as they are a tool for me to relieve my own sadness, stress and sense of futility.  Life will go on until it doesn't.  But along the way it will be very sad.

In the mean time, please consider these three choices for living your life you can make right now:

1) Be kind.  Avoid pettiness and battles over the small stuff.  And today, more than ever before, it is ALL small stuff.

2) Be generous.  To the best of your ability, give to others.  Give to people who are in need.  Give to organizations that are doing what they can to prolong habitable spaces and conditions where nature can endure. 

3) Be of service.  Find ways to donate your time to help others and help the planet.  If you help one butterfly live another day, you have done enough.

And love.  Most of all, love.  Others may not agree with your politics, your thoughts about COVID or your religious views on the meaning of life.  But they are going through the end of global-industrial civilization with you and they are going through the sixth mass extinction with you. So at the very least, you can love them.

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