one last post. I don't know how many people on this site are following the methane hydrate releases at the pole. The last NOAA ship to investigate a few months ago found the ocean to be boiling "like a teakettle". It seems a great many scientists (not all, obviously) believe the earth will be uninhabitable in a number of years. Thus the record number of high temp records set this year.
https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-record-lows-across-us
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/20...c-heat-wave-and-drought-fuels-oklahoma-fires/
The ratio of hot to cold records historically was, of course 1 to 1. Since the middle of the last century it has averaged above that. During the first decade of this century it averaged 2 to 1. Last year it averaged 3 to one.
So far this year it is averaging 12 to 1.
now mainstream media is starting to pick it up:
Study predicts imminent, irreversible planetary collapse
Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 21 scientists, including one from Simon Fraser University, predict we’re on a much worse collision course with Mother Nature than currently thought.
In Approaching a state-shift in Earth’s biosphere, a paper just published in Nature, the authors, whose expertise spans a multitude of disciplines, suggest our planet’s ecosystems are careering towards an imminent, irreversible collapse.
Earth’s accelerating loss of biodiversity, its climate's increasingly extreme fluctuations, its ecosystems’ growing connectedness and its radically changing total energy budget are precursors to reaching a planetary state threshold or tipping point.
anthropocene era:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene