BECAUSE THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE
Pakistan heat wave claims hundreds of lives
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At the Edhi morgue in Karachi, the smell is overwhelming.
At least 650 bodies have been brought here since Saturday. Many lie in storage. But an oppressive heat wave – and the frequent power outages from electricity grids trying to keep up with demand – means the morgue is unable to properly maintain the temperature at the overcrowded facility.
A handwritten sign outside says the morgue is filled to capacity. Other bodies lie outside.
Drought May Prompt Californians to Let Personal Hygiene Slide
The drought is affecting everything.. From BLOOMBERG:
Drought May Prompt Californians to Let Personal Hygiene Slide – Bloomberg Business
Dry shampoos already had started to gain traction because more consumers want to keep their hair’s natural oils intact and avoid harsh substances. Sales of the products are growing five times as fast as the 2 percent gain predicted for the total shampoo category through 2019, Aitken said, citing Euromonitor International data.
“It is now a case of skip a wash, or even two, among some of the users I know,” she said.
People who feel compelled to keep skip showers entirely have some waterless options for keeping clean. There are a number of personal cleansers geared to medical caregivers that don’t require water, including a version made by CVS Health Corp. for sale in its stores.
This is going to be undoubtedly controversial, amazing, historic, and news making when it occurs..
The GUARDIAN reports that Pope Francis will go on to write:
The Argentinian pontiff is expected to repeat calls for a change in attitudes to poverty and nature. “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it,” he told a meeting of social movements last year. “I think a question that we are not asking ourselves is: isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature? Safeguard creation because, if we destroy it, it will destroy us. Never forget this.”
Vatican Speaker on Climate Thinks There are 6 Billion Too Many of Us
I guess the ‘every sperm is sacred’ thought of the Catholic Church shall now change?
Although this makes me feel more like the Catlicks wouldn’t mind some good old fashioned eugenics to take hold, too..
Not a Christmas Coke commercial.
While this photo may not symbolize the sad and scared polar bear in climate change documentaries, it may be the better symbol of a changing global atmosphere. OR maybe the bears just found out they really liked the taste of something new..
From the linked report authored by the AFP:
Norwegian scientists have seen polar bears eating dolphins in the Arctic for the first time ever and blame global warming for the bears expanding their diet.Polar bears feed mainly on seals but Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute has photographed dolphins being devoured by a bear and published his findings in the latest edition of Polar Research this month.“It is likely that new species are appearing in the diet of polar bears due to climate change because new species are finding their way north,” he told AFP.The first incident he documented was in April 2014 when his team came across a polar feeding on the carcasses of two white-beaked dolphins.Although dolphins are regularly seen in the Norwegian Arctic in the summer months when the ice has melted, they have never been observed during winter or spring when the sea is usually still covered in sheets of ice.
