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Now we know that there is no longer such a thing as “facts.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/trump-booster-scottie-nell-hughes-gets-blasted-on-npr-after-saying-theres-no-such-thing-as-facts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dsc_0510\"In case you need some facts, regardless, if still willing to talk to your republican relatives over the Christmas goose or the Hannukah latkes, and I\u00a0will provide some\u00a0on climate change this week.\u00a0They are taken – directly – \u00a0from a\u00a0101 climate change primer\u00a0by Jelmer Mommers, a Dutch climate expert. I will link to the entire article by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

Why should I worry about rising temperatures?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Industrial livestock farming, deforestation, and fossil fuel use have released unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It\u2019s been tens of millions of years since there was this much CO2 out there, and levels have never increased as fast as they did in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

(As readers of prior blogs\u00a0know, I have argued in favor of industrial livestock farming, when discussing this terrific documentary:http:\/\/milkmenmovie.com<\/a>; but only with the relevant caveats about re-use of energy in form of manure-converting power plants and other complex issues.)<\/p>\n

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Some 97% of climate scientists agree that greenhouse gases emitted by human beings are having a dominant influence on the climate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When records shatter in rapid succession, you know it\u2019s time to worry. 2016 is on the way to being the hottest year ever. The last record year was 2015, which unseated the previous one, 2014. And the records are being broken by ever-greater margins.<\/em><\/p>\n