If you watched cable news at all this weekend, you probably heard a lot about Donald Trump's bad week and how it was a turning point in the presidential campaign.

But you probably didn't hear anything about another big turning point, one that demonstrates how little time we really have left to stop climate change.

Last week, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has stayed above 400 parts per million throughout the entire year up to this point.

We've crossed the 400 parts per million (or PPM) threshold before -- sometimes for weeks at a time, sometimes for months -- but the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere usually dips at the beginning of autumn, something that just hasn't happened this year.

As a result, scientists now think that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will stay above 400 parts per million permanently.

That's right -- permanently, as in FOREVER, at least in human terms.

This is, to paraphrase Vice President Joe Biden, a big "effing" deal.

The last time there was this much carbon in the atmosphere, human beings didn't even exist, at least not in our current form. And just for some perspective, 400 parts per million is already about 50 parts per million more than what most scientists consider "safe" levels of CO2 concentration.

So yeah, things don't look good at all for Planet Earth.

Couple this with vanishing Arctic sea ice, rising sea levels, and the fact that 2016 has already been the hottest year on record, and things look even worse.

As if it wasn't already obvious before, it should be now: we are rapidly running out of time to stop climate change.

We're already in the danger zone, and every single day we keep pumping fossil fuels into the atmosphere just pushes us closer towards total climate devastation.

The situation may even be worse than most people realize.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Pipeline Protesters Arrested / The Toxic Trade Map (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "One year of Trump’s tax returns were just revealed. Now we know why he won’t release the rest." by Judd Legum.

Article: "How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter" by James B. Stewart.

Article: "7 tweets by Trump about taxes that are very awkward now" by Judd Legum.

Article: "I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me" by Michael Diehl.

Article: "Call the Midwife" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Giuliani: Trump is better than a woman in White House" by CNN.

Article: "Donald Trump ‘demeaned female participants on The Apprentice with sexist language and comments’" by Andrew Buncombe.

Movie: "The Producers".

Article: "October surprise" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Mayor's Seperation: The Overview; Giuliani and His Wife of 16 Years Are Separating" by Elisabeth Bumiller, May 11, 2000.

Article: "The truth about Newt and his cancer-stricken wife" by Justin Elliott.

Article: "Vote Yes on California Proposition 59, The Overturn Citizens United Act".

Article: "Why Trump wants his supporters to monitor the polls in 'certain areas'" by Ben Rosen.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "How Donald Trump Made A Fortune By Losing A Billion Dollars " by Marty Rudoy.

Article: "19th Amendment "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Article: "16th Amendment. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Article: "GDP and Other Major NIPA Series, 1929–2012:II " by U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

Book: Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank.

Site: Colonel Doug Applegate for Congress (CA49, running against Rep. Darrell Issa).

Article: "Rep. Darrell Issa and Douglas Applegate trade barbs in attack ads" by Phil Willon.

Hour Two: What is "Smart and Fair" Trade?
- Dr. Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities/(former) Chief Economist & Economic Adviser to V.P. Joe Biden

Article: "Hillary Clinton calls for ‘smart and fair trade.’ What is that?" by Jared Bernstein.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Letter: " to James Madison" by Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1788.

Article: "Audio Reveals What John Kerry Told Syrians Behind Closed Doors" by Anne Barnard.

Video: Frontline: The Choice 2016.

Article: "Donald Trump’s new D.C. hotel vandalized with ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti" by Jessica Schladebeck.

Article: "Sen Mitch McConnell blames Obama for bill that Obama vetoed and McConnell repeatedly voted for" by Cory Doctorow.

Article: "Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump 'contributing nothing to our nation'" by MJ Lee and Dan Merica.

Video: The President's First Year and World War 4 - Douglas Cohn.

Book: World War 4 by Douglas Alan Cohn.

Book: The President's First Year: None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency by Douglas Alan Cohn.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" by Wikipedia.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Trump again questions Clinton’s stamina" by Bryan Renbaum.

Video: "'She can't make it 15ft to her car': Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton at rally".

Article: "Donald Trump: Military suicides happen to servicemembers who 'can't handle it'" by Tom LoBianco.

Article: "Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found" by David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey.

Article: "States with initiative or referendum" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "5 states could legalize recreational marijuana use this year — here's what we know" by Ben Gilbert.

Article: "Legal Weed in California and Other Huge Ballot Proposals to Watch in November" by Tory Newmyer.

Article: "How to watch the vice presidential debate on TV and online" (Tuesday Oct. 4) by Adam Epstein.

Article: "Voters unsure who will win VP debate: poll" by TMN.

Article: "Supreme Court punts on compensation for college athletes" by Gary Gately.

Article: "Supreme Court won’t hear appeal over police stun gun use" by AP.

Article: "Supreme Court turns away challenge to death penalty sentence in fragging case" by Steve Vladeck.

Article: "U.S. top court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case" by Lawrence Hurley.

Article: "Federal judge hits Wisconsin for voter ID problems" by Ariane de Vogue.

Video: Sloths Run the DMV in the New 'Zootopia' Trailer.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman

Hour Three: Latest on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vs. DAPL
- Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog

Article: "White House seeks improved tribal relations as pipeline fight lingers" by Valerie Volcovici.

Article: "Donald Trump's PTSD Comments: Some Veterans 'Aren't Strong,' 'Can't Handle It'" by Tim Marcin.

Article: "Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising in NY" by TMN.

Article: "New York AG denies Trump probe politically motivated" by Nick Gass.

Article: "CBS CEO: “For Us, Economically, Donald’s Place in This Election Is a Good Thing”" by Lee Fang.

Movie: Snowden.

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Healthy Schools...It Matters
- Donna Shalala, The Clinton Foundation

Site: Clinton Global Initiative.

Book: Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi.

Book: Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer.

Article: "Retirement plans in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Site: Vote for John Scott (District 79, Florida).

Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript).

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