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Hate Summer? Just Wait Until Global Warming Really Kicks In
If you think summer is unbearable now, just wait until the end of the century. According to “Risky Business,” a report released on Tuesday by a bipartisan group of scientists and officials that included former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, global warming is going to make it so hot and so humid over the next 80-plus years that going outside in the summer will be pretty much impossible.
In fact, it will be downright deadly. Climatologist Robert Kopp, the lead scientist behind the report, told Reuters that, “As temperatures rise, toward the end of the century, less than an hour of activity outdoors in the shade could cause a moderately fit individual to suffer heat stroke.” In other words, if you try to take a run on a hot day in the year 2085, there’s a good chance that it will kill you.
But if we don’t do something now to stop global warming, heat stroke will be the least of our worries. That’s because according to Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, we only have until 2036 - 22 years - to prevent the Earth’s temperature from rising 2 degrees Celsius.
After that, global warming will lock in with devastating consequences for every single living thing on this planet. Serious scientific bodies are even debating whether or not industrial civilization can survive such a drastic temperature increase and the type of crazy weather, wildfires, and drought that will come with it.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Why are children fleeing on the border (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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The Best of the Rest...
Why are children fleeing on the border- Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Children Crisis on the border- Oscar A. Chacon, Executive Director of the National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC) 
Daily Take: Hate Summer? Just Wait Until Global Warming Really Kicks In
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: SCOTUS Decisions today!- Ian Millhiser, Senior Constitutional Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress & Think Progress
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".
Hour Two: Should Senators set foreign policy? Plus - Russell Brand rants about Fox News
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Hour Three: Can Boehner sue the President?
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." |
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Full Show 6/24/14: Is McCain Creating the Next 9/11?
Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses the release of the memo used by the DOJ to justify the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, the passing of the Massie-Lofgren NSA amendment and why Elizabeth Warren is campaigning in coal country. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how John McCain may have set us up for the next 9/11.
The Downside of Maverick-y Foreign Policy
The Thom Hartmann Program - June 25, 2014
SCOTUS: Aereo Must Stop Retransmissions
SCOTUS: No More Warrantless Cell Phone Searches!
Just who owns Fox News Anyway?
Caller: I'm Concerned About Illegal Children
Caller: Thom Taught me how to Debate Right-Wingers
Caller: We are Turning our Schools into Prisons
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A thought on the Cell-Phone Ruling:
My first reaction was that the 5 that suddently decided to vote properly were just concerned about the porn on their devices being discovered after a traffic stop, but I think it goes deeper.
The reality of the ruling is just that it has been clarified that technically, in "most" cases, a warrant needs to be obtained and the inference is that warrants are not easy to obtain.
Unlike so many other rulings by SCOTUS dealing with "privacy" (which the Corporate Media give little coverage to) - this ruling gets big headlines and more airtime than all those erosions of our rights.
Now why would that be?
My conclusion is that the (substitute the 3-letters of your choice) have noticed a decrease in the amount of personal / potentially embarassing or incriminating information being stored by people on their electronic devices since Mr. Snowden's whistleblowing began a year ago.
This ruling, although proper in itself, is intended to lull users back into a false sense of security about how cavlier they can be with how they use their electronic devices.
Interesting theory. Time will tell.
I suspect that a lot of people were not paying attention, and have not reduced their storage of data, but maybe the people that matter have.