TRUTHTALK13 NEWS

Is This Global Drought Being Caused By The Systematic Destruction Of The Hydrologic Cycle? By Michael Snyder, on May 20th, 2015 Have you noticed that severe drought seems to be gripping much of the planet right now?  You probably have.  But why is this happening?  Could it be possible that we are doing this to ourselves?  Many want to try to link the rise and fall of precipitation levels to temperature variations, but there is something much more obvious that they are overlooking.  Trees play an absolutely critical role in our water cycle, and every single minute the amount of land that is deforested around the globe is equivalent to 36 football fields .  By extracting water from the soil and releasing it into the atmosphere, trees provide a critical link in the hydrologic cycle that we all depend upon.  If there were no more trees, life on this planet would become exceedingly difficult for humanity.  So the fact that we are literally ripping...

New and troubling carbon threshold passed, researchers say Scott Sutherland Meteorologist, theweathernetwork.com Friday, May 8, 2015, 8:26 AM - Global carbon dioxide concentrations have reached a new "benchmark" of 400 parts per million, a level unprecedented in at least a million years. "Reaching 400 parts per million as a global average is a significant milestone," Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, said in a press release this week. "This marks the fact that humans burning fossil fuels have caused global carbon dioxide concentrations to rise more than 120 parts per million since pre-industrial times. Half of that rise has occurred since 1980." Unprecedented in millions of years These values aren't just high when compared to recent history, or even human history. The release of tens of billions of metric tons of CO 2 into the atmosphere every year, through the burning of fossil fuels, has increased ca...