And it may be too late for the human race even if you do vote for Bernie. How bad is it?
Scientists Consider Extinction
According to a study just published in Nature Geoscience, twice as much methane as previously thought is being released from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf...
The day after Nature Geoscience released its study, a group of scientists from Harvard and other leading academic institutions published a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that the amount of methane being emitted in the U.S. both from oil and agricultural operations could be 50 percent greater than previous estimates...
...“the Permian mass extinction that occurred 250 million years ago is related to methane and thought to be the key to what caused the extinction of most species on the planet.” In that extinction episode, it is estimated that 95 percent of all species were wiped out.
Also known as “The Great Dying,”... it caused temperatures to skyrocket further. All of this occurred over a period of approximately 80,000 years.
We are currently in the midst of what scientists consider the sixth mass extinction in planetary history...The difference being that ours is human caused, isn’t going to take 80,000 years, has so far lasted just a few centuries, and is now gaining speed in a non-linear fashion.
As the Sanders campaign pointed out today , scientists have announced that 2015 was the hottest year on record. Shattering the precious record set...just last year.
Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, calculated that if the global climate were not warming, the odds of setting two back-to-back record years would be remote, about one chance in every 1,500 pairs of years.
You can read the entire New York Times article here. It’s bad and as the oceans warm, it’s only going to get worse. The tipping point may already have come and gone. One thing is for sure, however, if there’s any chance to save the human race, it’s not going to happen if we keep electing Wall St. insiders.
The strong El Niño has continued into 2016, raising the possibility that this year will, yet again, set a global temperature record. The El Niño pattern is also disturbing the circulation of the atmosphere, contributing to worldwide weather extremes that include a drought in southern Africa, threatening the food supply of millions.
Some may tell you to hold your nose and pick the lesser of two evils, but that’s not true folks.
Evil is evil.
Just look at what Obama did to help cause the BP oil spill:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/05/28/870830/-What-the-hell-were-THEY-doing
...the Center for Biological Diversity and its allies won a court order vacating the Bush Five-Year Offshore Drilling Plan. Rather than use the court order as a timeout on new offshore oil drilling to develop a new plan, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar filed a special motion with the court to exempt approved oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He specifically identified BP's operation as one that should be released from the vacature.
So the system actually worked, and offshore drilling had been shut down around Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, but then...
Obama/Salazar intervened in court to start drilling again, in April 2009, without further evironmental review, exactly where Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank.
Bush Jr. had voided the Environmental Impact Studies for drilling in the Gulf by allowing categorical exclusions from environmental review. Environmentalists had finally overturned that ban. Instead of going back to a sane and responsible policy, Obama pushed for more and faster drilling and a continuance of the categorical exclusion policy on any impact study. Thus, on April 6th, 2009, the Interior Department issued BP a categorical exemption for the Deepwater Horizon well in a skimpy one page letter that warned that BP “exercise caution while drilling due to indications of shallow gas.”
And look at Hillary Clinton’s record on climate change:
And then there was Hillary Clinton. About midway through the debate, Clinton staked her climate record on what's widely perceived to have been one of the biggest diplomatic failures in recent history—the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. After years of anticipation, the meeting of world leaders ended in disarray, with Obama and his aides famously wandering around the convention center, looking for the leaders of China, India, Brazil, and other key nations. The toothless deal struck at the last minute was called a "grudging accord" by the New York Times the next day. Yes, Obama—and Clinton, then his secretary of state—were instrumental to that deal, but it's hardly something Hillary should be proud of.
In reality, the sour legacy of Copenhagen has haunted international climate negotiations ever since. It's now widely believed that the United States never wanted a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen at all—even though the Democrats controlled the Congress at the time and may have been able to successfully ratify the treaty—opting instead for a mostly empty pledge of billions of dollars in aid to developing nations.
What's worse, Hillary actually went out shilling for Big Oil:
The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe...But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.
...environmental groups were barely consulted, while industry played a crucial role. When Goldwyn unveiled the initiative in April 2010, it was at a meeting of the United States Energy Association, a trade organization representing Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and ConocoPhillips, all of which were pursuing fracking overseas.
The batshit crazy Republicans think it’s all a conspiracy theory from China. But the DNC and the Democratic Party leadership evidently aren’t thinking about this issue at all. Despite what they may say, action speaks louder than words.
And Bernie Sanders?
“Sanders is very much among the top leaders”
Sanders has one of the strongest climate change records in the Senate. In fact, according to rankings released by Climate Hawks Vote, a new super PAC, Sanders was the No. 1 climate leader in the Senate for the 113th Congress that ended in January.
If people spent the energy they waste defending/supporting Hillary “Frack That!” Clinton on getting Democrats elected who will fight to stop Big Oil, the human race might actually have a chance.
Maybe.
There really is no choice. Humanity CANNOT continue on its present course. We CANNOT have 4 more years of Big Oil buying our leaders. Vote Bernie Sanders…
...or die.