Ocean Warming Unstoppable, Pope Fights Capitalism? & More

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Many folks incorporate the warming of the oceans into climatic warming,, yet while there are certain inter-relationships they both have unique conditions that may cause them to act in separate ways. 

In other words, if we could fix the climate, it does not mean that we will also fix the oceans and its issues including  warming, acidification, and rapid life-form extinctions. The feedback loops in each of these cases appear to be marching to their own tunes.

Meanwhile,,the Vatican should be a little more careful with its messages  as history pictures and evidences  their concept and prior support of a - New World Order  - in an awful way  that says "people in glass houses should not throw stones".  In the  end,, you would have to be nuts to trust these theists and their lunatic rantings - for their true colors are irrefutable -- when push, comes to shove! 

Warming of oceans is now unstoppable

Seas will continue to warm for centuries even if manmade greenhouse gas emissions were frozen at today’s levels, after record temperatures last year, bringing additional sea-level rise, and raising the risks of severe storms

 

 700,000 Australian buildings at risk from just 1 metre sea level rise

South Florida’s drought deepens 

South Florida’s rainy season typically kicks in around June with the start of the hurricane season. But this year, following a dry spring, just over six inches has fallen across a 16-county region, more than two inches below average. July arrived with brutal heat, but little seasonal afternoon rain. Rainfall in Broward was off by more than eight inches. Miami-Dade was down seven inches.

We Own The World

Noam Chomsky: Is the empire worth building - and at what cost? 

Unbridled capitalism is the 'dung of the devil'

The pontiff condemns the impoverishment of developing countries and apologised for the church’s treatment of native Americans

Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism

He assailed the prevailing economic system saying that 

the systemic “greed for money” is a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women".

Pope Calls For New Economic Order, Criticizes Capitalism

 

Pope Francis in one of the longest, most passionate speeches of his pontificate,: “We want change, real change, structural change," the pope said, decrying a system that "has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”

The Encyclical and its economics

 

"Sorry Pope & Co., but for some strange reason - this time, we're just not buying it!" 

"Fool me once, shame on .... well, you know what I mean."

George W Bush 

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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were stored in forests and other ecosystems and in vast reserves of fossil fuels. In just the last few hundred years, humans extracted exploitable energy from these living and fossilized biomass fuels to build the modern industrial-technological-informational economy, to grow our population to more than 7 billion, and to transform the biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity of the earth. This rapid discharge of the earth’s store of organic energy fuels the human domination of the biosphere, including conversion of natural habitats to agricultural fields and the resulting loss of native species, emission of carbon dioxide and the resulting climate and sea level change, and use of supplemental nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar energy sources. The laws of thermodynamics governing the trickle-charge and rapid discharge of the earth’s battery are universal and absolute; the earth is only temporarily poised a quantifiable distance from the thermodynamic equilibrium of outer space. Although this distance from equilibrium is comprised of all energy types, most critical for humans is the store of living biomass. With the rapid depletion of this chemical energy, the earth is shifting back toward the inhospitable equilibrium of outer space with fundamental ramifications for the biosphere and humanity. Because there is no substitute or replacement energy for living biomass, the remaining distance from equilibrium that will be required to support human life is unknown.

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All The Ways Hackers Will Try To Kill You In The Future 

Remotely hacking and disabling a car's brake system, also the ability to jerk the steering wheel at will, with a simple laptop is not just on the horizon, it's here. As early as 2013, hackers were able to remotely gain access to cars and control them, including their brakes and lock systems. More recently, a $60 DIY device has been released which makes car hacking easier than ever. And this is what's going down before driverless cars hit the road.

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