Or just watch a lot of dystopian conspiracy theories bandied about YouTube.

So Easy.  A vigorous exercise of your internet freedoms, and just a click away.  Duh.

No, the conspiracy involves all of the world's governments and the large majority of its scientists. That's because they are all stupid and you and the only intelligent person in the world. It's like the dumb idea that the world is ball-shaped: common sense shows it is wrong.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota health officials say the West Nile virus season is nearing its peak.

The state Health Department reported Thursday that West Nile virus has been detected in humans or mosquitoes in 11 counties across South Dakota.

State epidemiologist Dr. Joshua Clayton says the West Nile season typically peaks during the first part of August, so people are being exposed to the virus now.

Clayton says people exposed today can take up to one to two weeks to develop symptoms.

Toronto city health officials received laboratory confirmation that an adult resident in Toronto has tested positive for West Nile virus. This is the first human case testing positive for West Nile virus in Toronto for 2018.

http://outbreaknewstoday.com/toronto-reports-1st-human-west-nile-virus-case-2018/

An amazing, very short visualisation of more than a century of national temperature data posted by Babytigrrr in OD:

Humans have depleted the Earth’s natural resources with five months still to go in 2018

https://qz.com/1345205/humans-have-depleted-the-earths-natural-resources-with-five-months-still-to-go-in-2018/

Sorry folks, but using mainstream economic theory to forecast how fast the Earth is using up its natural resources is fraught with misleading BS.  Not least because the mainstream theory (and Piketty too) contain tail-chasing tautologies when it comes to capital theory and measurement, inter alia.

If you want an incisive (and fairly short) introduction to the many issues involved, just read John Kenneth Galbraith's son (Jamie) on the INET Website.  Here's the link --

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/kapital-for-the-twenty-first-century

But these concerns do not alter the fact that the planet is both heating up and being polluted with verve.  Just so this post doesn't attract the usual tomato throwing, in its continuing food fight around GCC.

While it is true that different resources are being used up at different rates, it is undeniable that the world we have all known for the early parts of our lives is utterly unsustainable. We rely to a large extent on resources that are not only finite and not regenerated at a significant rate, but extremely limited. And that's before the fact that some of them screw up the entire global environment!

The topic seems about as pertinent to the larger issue being focused on here as a discussion about what was the best lounge chair to pick out on the Titanic.

"In sum... replete with ...information on the flows of income, transfers of wealth, and the distribution of financial resources in ... the world’s wealthiest countries. 

Piketty ... does not provide a very sound guide to policy. And despite its great ambitions, his book is not the accomplished work of high theory that its title, length, and reception (so far) suggest..."

Thanks for posting this link. Weighty, thought-provoking review that merits digestion. That being said, it is tangential to the current discussion, so best not to follow it too far.

OK, understood.  My chief point was not to count too much on "economistic logic" when it comes to GCC.  But, if you want to read one of the hardest hitting economists / globalists on the GCC issue, here's today's posting by Jeff Sach's in the Project Syndicate webpage --

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-change-disaster-in-the-making-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2018-08

Professor Sachs goes for the jugular, and displays a "take no prisoners" attitude towards GCC and U.S. government policies.

The Planet scoffs at your assertion.  It will do just fine, it has all the time it needs to study the infinite variety of change that can occur in an infinite existence.

We humans are destroying the inhabitability of the planet for our selves.

It's kind of a spiritual thing - let's see what happens when a 'high' species evolves in certain ways without acknowledging the importance of the need to simultaneously evolve the "self".

I agree it was rather rude of me, but it was addressed at those who claimed that global warming had stopped and advocated ignoring it: a hugely damaging position justifying worse than the word "dummy".

 Fine guy that John Denver. Sad he died so young.

Well, if there is anyone who doesn't yet know global temperatures are in an uptrend and that is being driven by human activity, they ain't the sharpest tool in the box.

If you said "Rummy-Dummy" instead?  Would you still be accused of being rude, Elroch?

Is a "Wooden-Rummy-Dummy" too harsh for civilized society?? 

P.S. -- Nice cartoon above, except that all the GCC action comes in the last 300 years.  It's called "capitalism and freedom," (by many folks, especially on the right), and they occupy many seats of power, as we have all learned recently.  Aside from Macron in France, and the new guy in Mexico, how many leaders currently in power are from the left?

In any case, damn few leaders (on either side) are pushing the UN negotiations on GCC.

This is an VERY unfortunate state of play.

This suggests a lack of understanding of how science works. You should be aware it does work, though, given that so much in the modern world is dependent on that.

When plastic burns it produces oxidised compounds, including a lot of CO2 and water, as well as some troublesome toxic pollutants, plus considerable heat. The reverse process would require a lot of energy, hence cost: in practice producers start with unoxidised chemical substrates instead. I read that there are proposed sustainable alternatives, but this is a work in progress. We can only hope it will succeed.