<story><title>February breaks global temperature records by &apos;shocking&apos; amount</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/14/february-breaks-global-temperature-records-by-shocking-amount</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>The really sad thing is that when those forces critical to resolving this (governments, corporate interests, the majority of the global public) finally come around to the idea that climate change exists, they won&amp;#x27;t be interested in solving it - they&amp;#x27;ll blame their neighbours, refuse to change themselves, and will go to war.&lt;p&gt;Our extinction &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we&amp;#x27;ll take with us.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re just not that great, and our behaviour is &amp;quot;primate basic&amp;quot; to the extreme.&lt;p&gt;Children playing with matches.</text></item><item><author>anc84</author><text>Climate change scares me so much yet I feel completely helpless that I rather hear nothing about it. The effects have been known for years but those in power completely ignore or even sabotage attempts to act. What&amp;#x27;s the point in hearing about it if there is practically nothing I can do but worry?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derrickdirge</author><text>Are other people made very uncomfortable by people like this looking down their nose at the entire species? I&amp;#x27;m just not sure what these levels of defeatism and misanthropy get you.</text></comment>
<story><title>February breaks global temperature records by &apos;shocking&apos; amount</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/14/february-breaks-global-temperature-records-by-shocking-amount</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>The really sad thing is that when those forces critical to resolving this (governments, corporate interests, the majority of the global public) finally come around to the idea that climate change exists, they won&amp;#x27;t be interested in solving it - they&amp;#x27;ll blame their neighbours, refuse to change themselves, and will go to war.&lt;p&gt;Our extinction &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we&amp;#x27;ll take with us.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re just not that great, and our behaviour is &amp;quot;primate basic&amp;quot; to the extreme.&lt;p&gt;Children playing with matches.</text></item><item><author>anc84</author><text>Climate change scares me so much yet I feel completely helpless that I rather hear nothing about it. The effects have been known for years but those in power completely ignore or even sabotage attempts to act. What&amp;#x27;s the point in hearing about it if there is practically nothing I can do but worry?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skylan_q</author><text>&lt;i&gt;finally come around to the idea that climate change exists&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes... they somehow impose carbon taxes, go to climate summits and make up protocols to agree to but none of them believe in climate change.</text></comment>