The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone – The Boston Globe

The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone – The Boston Globe:

Bill McKibben gives a quick notice of the unbelievable occurrence. The 2 degrees Celsius above normal is that critical milestone that governments have arbitrarily chosen as the drop-dead level for the planet.

We’ll congratulations, we have gotten there!

Somewhat humorously, you gotta laugh or you will cry, Anchorage, Alaska is importing snow for the great dog sled race. First year for no-show of snow!

Bill was active in the 350.org effort to try to roll back the CO2 levels of the planet to 350ppm from the 400 level we now find ourselves. Of course it has been only upward since then.

Ouch!

Double ouch!

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