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  We start at Cape Grim in Australia Today - where an atmospheric measuring station is picking up atmospheric CO2 levels that are on the verge of breaking 400 parts per million for the first time in human history. And unlike other measuring stations where concentrations fluctuate seasonally - the station at Cape Grim is in a region with stable CO2 concentrations - meaning CO2 levels in that area won't dip below 400 parts per million once it crosses that milestone.

On May 6th - scientists picked up a CO2 reading at Cape Grim of 399.9 parts per million - meaning that within weeks the reading will be permanently above 400 parts per million. This isn't the first station to cross the 400 ppm threshold - the first station to detect CO2 levels above 400 parts per million was the Mauna Loa observatory back in 2013. CO2 concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory fluctuate throughout the year - but soon CO2 concentrations there will be so high that they'll never dip below 400 parts per million, either. And last March - the global monthly average using all global readings crossed 400 parts per million - which guarantees that truly dangerous global warming is inevitable.

James Butler - director of the global monitoring division as the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - compared the situation to an electric blanket. He told the Guardian that "It's like lying in bed with your electric blanket set to three. You jack it up to seven - you don't get hot right away but you do get hot. And that's what we're doing." And that's the problem - it's difficult to know how much warming exactly we've guaranteed now that we're crossing the 400 parts per million threshold - especially considering that scientists said years ago that to avoid catastrophic warming we need to keep carbon concentrations below 350 parts per million.

What's clear is that yearly and monthly temperature averages have continued to break records regularly in the last couple of years - and with atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 400 parts per million - that trend will continue for years to come, even if we stopped emitting carbon completely today. The fossil fuel industry has blocked and disputed the science on climate change for so long now that now we can guarantee that the oceans will continue to acidify - warm - and lose oxygen - and we can guarantee that storms will get stronger - droughts will get worse - and communities will be devastated.

We need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for misleading the public for so long and for guaranteeing that a child born today will never know a planet with CO2 concentrations below 400 parts per million - and we need to go 100% renewable immediately.

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Pamela Haag PhD, THE GUNNING OF AMERICA: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

    

Friday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !" by PufPuf23.

Article: "On Facebook, Trump's Longtime Butler Calls for Obama to Be Killed" by David Corn.

Article: "Voter suppression in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Audio from 1991 surfaces of Donald Trump pretending to be his own publicist" by Ashley Collman.

Article: "Apple invests $1bn in Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing" by Charles Clover, Jennifer Thompson.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "House Bill 2 / S.L. 2016-3 Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.".

Article: "Obama administration issues guidance on transgender access to school bathrooms" by Emanuella Grinberg.

Article: "Dilma Rousseff suspended as senate votes to impeach Brazilian president" by Jonathan Watts.

Article: "A Slavers' Coup in Brazil" by Greg Grandin.

Article: "The Economics of $50 Lettuce" by Matthew Yglesias.

Article: "Hillary Clinton Email Inquiry Won't Be Rushed, F.B.I. Chief Says" by Eric Lichtblau and Matt Flegenheimer.

Article: "Joe Biden: 'I Would Have Been the Best President'" by Margaret Chadbourn.

Article: "Clinton expresses regret after assassination remark" by Elana Schor, on 23 May 2008.

Article: "Where Donald Trump Got His Secret Recipe to Channel White Male Rage Into Front-Runner Status" by Adam Johnson.

Hour Two: Who's Stealing Your Vote... and How?
- Harvey Wasserman, Solartopia/STRIP & FLIP SELECTION OF 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft (due in 2016) 

Site: Greg Palast.

Article: "Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?" by Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks.

Article: "Lawsuit Alleges Backdoor Present in Ohio Voting Machine Software" by Anthony Freed, November 07, 2012.

Article: "Katherine Harris" by Wikipedia.

Site: Free Press.

 

Article: "Pelosi: 'Not a Dime's Worth of Difference' Between Trump and House GOP" by Pam Key.

Movie: "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe".

Video: Vaxxed.

Video: Robert DeNiro: "Everyone Should See Vaxxed".

Book: Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury-a Known Neurotoxin-from Vaccines by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

 

Why We Need A "We The People Amendment"
- David Cobb, Move To Amend  

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Site: Washington State Coalition to Amend the Constitution (WAmend).

Article: "Washington Ballot Measure Approved for November Election!" by Move to Amend.

Event: May 6-9 in DC: "Move to Amend National Leadership Summit".

Bill: "H.J.Res.48 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only." by Rep. Richard M. Nolan [D-MN-8].

 

Article: "Donald Trump Adviser Signals Plan to Change Veterans' Health Care" by Ben Kesling.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Article: "US immigration officials planning 30-day 'surge' of arrests to deport families" by Reuters.

Article: "Some Obamacare Funding Deemed Illegal by D.C. Federal Judge" by Erik Larson, Andrew M Harris.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Quick Morning News - Bathroom Law Front And Center - May 13, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "North Carolina, U.S., square off over transgender rights" by Joe Sterling, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Joshua Berlinger.

Article: "Obama administration issues guidance on transgender access to school bathrooms" by Emanuella Grinberg.

Site: The T Spot.

Article: "Selection bias" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Promises To Appoint Anti-Abortion Justices To Supreme Court" by Laura Bassett.

Book: People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy by Robert W McChesney and John Nichols.

Speech: "Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy - January 20th 1961" "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You".

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" .

Site: Move to Amend

Site: Democracy for America

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

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