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From The Guardian :
The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it "very unlikely" that the world will stay within a crucial temperature limit agreed by nations just last year, according to Nasa's top climate scientist.
[...] But Nasa said that records of temperature that go back far further, taken via analysis of ice cores and sediments, suggest that the warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium.
[...] [Director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin] Schmidt repeated his previous prediction that there is a 99% chance that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, with around 20% of the heat attributed to a strong El Niño climatic event. Last year is currently the warmest year on record, itself beating a landmark set in 2014.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:23AM
If the options are between dead rock or a living planet,
What a load of fucking bullshit.
Seriously. Your response to "we should to try preserve the Earth as it is so the human race can survive" is "eh, as long as it doesn't turn into a dead rock, I'm good."
WTF is wrong with you that you do not give a damn about billions of lives?
A little perspective indeed.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday September 03 2016, @03:37AM
Read the sentence I quoted again. I'm not saying that I don't care about human life, I'm saying that I do care about other life. We're quite a bit closer to Mars colonization than the octopuses are, and I'd rather we not go extinct yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:47AM
I wrote the sentence.
At best your response was an unrelated tangent caused by you brainfarting on a syntax parsing error that context should have corrected.
Its liked you pulled an "all lives matter" cop-out.