Climate Links: 08/30/2016

World is Warming at Rate 'Unprecedented' for 1,000 Years. Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams. Aug. 30, 2016.

Another day, another dire warning about the global climate emergency.
NASA's top climate scientist announced Tuesday that the Earth is warming at a pace not seen in at least the past 1,000 years, making it "very unlikely" that global temperatures will stay below the 1.5°C limit agreed to in the landmark climate treaty negotiated in Paris last December.
"In the last 30 years, we've really moved into exceptional territory," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the Guardian. "It's unprecedented in 1,000 years. There's no period that has the trend seen in the 20th century in terms of the inclination [of temperatures]."
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'People who think this is over are viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles. This is a chronic problem for society for the next 100 years'

Environment minister defends Alberta's oil sands 'gas' cap. BBC. Aug. 23, 2016.