We will have a fossil fuel-free economy by 2100. That's according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who announced today that the G7 nations have agreed to "decarbonise the global economy in the course of this century."

The G7's agreement is more of a goal than it is a hard-and-fast plan, but it's still a big deal.

This week world leaders are meeting Bonn, Germany for preliminary talks before this fall's climate summit in Paris. Apparently, the talks haven't been going very well, but maybe, just maybe, today's announcement from the G7 will kick them into gear.

That being said, even if the G7 nations do phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century, it won't be enough to prevent severe damage to the planet - and to the human race.

Michael Mann, a frequent guest on this program and one of the world's leading climate scientists, estimates that we only have until 2036 -- 21 years -- to prevent the Earth's temperature from rising 2 degrees Celsius, the standard cutoff point for "acceptable" levels of warming.

After we cross that 2 degrees Celsius threshold, global warming will lock in with devastating consequences for every single living thing on this planet

Other scientists, like James Hansen, have an even gloomier view of how much more warming the planet can take. In a recent interview with an Australian radio station, for example, Hansen called the 2 degrees Celsius number "nonsense" and warned that it's "a prescription for disaster."

Hansen now argues that we need to lower the limit of "acceptable" warming to 1 degree Celsius - a number we're already dangerously close to reaching.

Whether you agree with James Hansen that we need to limit warming to 1 degree Celsius or with Michael Mann that we need to focus on 2 degrees, one thing is clear: we must stop using fuels way before the end of the century if we want to stave off total climate devastation.

Which raises the question: If the stakes are so high when it comes to global warming, why aren't doing more right now to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions and move towards renewable power?

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Explosive Radioactive Waste Crisis (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

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Need to Know: Bernie Sanders May Win The White House
- Ari Rabin-Havt, The Morning Agenda (SiriusXM Progress 127)/The Benghazi Hoax    

 

Screwed: Swimming While Black Apparently Is Against The Law
- Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium (ActionCAC)   

 

Plus, Big Pharma Now Claims The Right Of Free Speech...They're A Person!
- Dr. Michael Carome, Health Research Group, Public Citizen  

 

Best of the Rest: Lookout For The Wall Street Timebomb
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work  

 

Plus, The Explosive Nuclear Waste Crisis...
- Paul DeRienzo, WhoWhatWhy  

 

  

Monday's Daily Stack 

 

Hour One: Is it a crime to attend a pool party while black?
- Kymone Freeman, Black Lives Matter DC/We Act Radio  

Article: "Teen Speaks Out About What Happened When Cops Broke Up A Texas Pool Party" by Julia Craven.

Article: "Texas Cop Suspended After He's Caught On Video Grabbing Black Girl By Her Hair And Sitting On Her" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "White-On-White Crime Strikes Again In Waco" by Julia Craven.

 

Article: "My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House" by Eric Zuesse.

Article: "South Carolina police officer in Walter Scott shooting indicted on murder charge" by Mark Berman.

Book: Sexy Liberal!: Of Me I Sing by Stephanie Miller.

Article: "Sanders pulls within 8 points of Clinton in Wisconsin" by Ben Kamisar.

Article: "ISIS Forces That Now Control Ramadi Are Ex-Baathist Saddam Loyalists" by Malcolm W. Nance.

Hour Two: Should healthcare be a right or a privilege in America?
- Neil McCabe, Townhall/The Washington Mercury  

Video: "New Covenant speech", October 23, 1991 by Bill Clinton.

Speech: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by FDR (second bill of rights) (audio).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".

 

Article: "Powerful people are quick to notice injustice when they are victimized, research finds" by Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Article: "40 Reasons Why Our Jails Are Full of Black and Poor People" by Bill Quigley.

Article: "Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements" by Julia Preston.

Article: "White privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack'" by Peggy McIntosh.

Article: "Frank Serpico" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Serpico".

Site: Daniel Ellsberg, "Pentagon Papers" Whistleblower.

Article: "Edward Snowden" by Edward Snowden.

TV: "All in the Family" by Norman Lear.

TV: "Maude" by Norman Lear.

TV: "Criminal Minds" by Jeff Davis.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes 6/8" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Did inmates have inside help in `Shawshank'-style breakout?" by Michael Hill.

Article: "G7 Summit Wrap-Up" by Ari Zoldan.

Article: "G7 to limit global warming to below 2 degrees" by Sara Stefanini and Ryan Heath.

Article: "Obama: 'No complete strategy' yet on training Iraqis" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Obama Vows to Address 'Significant Vulnerabilities' After Latest Cyberattack" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge To S.F. Gun Rules" by Richard Gonzales.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008.

Article: "Can A 4�C Earth Support 10 Billion People?" by Joe Romm.

Article: "PETM Shocker: When CO2 Levels Doubled 55 Million Years Ago, Earth May Have Warmed 9�F In 13 Years" by Joe Romm.

Article: "Permian-Triassic extinction event" by Wikipedia.

Article: "World's Leading Skeptics Of Man-Caused Global Warming Gathering In Washington, DC" (June 11 -12) by PRWeb.

Article: "Tobacco Chiefs Say Cigarettes Aren't Addictive" by Philip J. Hilts, April 15, 1994.

Article: "Silicon Valley Boss Died In 'Treadmill Slip'".

Article: "Climate Change Threatens Health: Infectious Diseases: Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus, and Lyme Disease" by NRDC.

Book: The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse by Rebecca Costa.

Site: Daily Kos

Site: Democracy for America

Speech: "The Economic Bill of Rights" by FDR (second bill of rights) (audio).

Article: "Poll Of Likely 2016 Voters" by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive Change Institute.

Article: "Taking the Carbon Out of Coal" (coal-direct chemical looping) by Robert VerBruggen.

Video: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change - Allan Savory TED talk.

Article: "Ferguson Police Racist, Unconstitutional, Justice Department Says" by Kory Grow.

Article: "You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History" by Juliana DeVries.

 

Article: "Study: Yep, American Presidents Are Guided By Wealthy Elites" by Brendan James.

Article: "The American People Have Spoken: Get Money Out of Politics" by Sarah Lazare.

Article: "F.C.C. Chief Seeks Broadband Plan to Aid the Poor" by Rebecca R. Ruiz.

Article: "Drug Companies Are Gouging Cancer Patients, Top Doctor Says" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "Vermont Governor Signs Bipartisan Election Day Registration Bill" by Brennan Center for Justice.

Article: "California Senate passes bill to raise minimum wage to $11 per hour" by Reuters.

 

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