Global Warming will Increase Children´s deaths from Hypothermia

Summary: Research shows global warming will cause more deaths from hypothermia as people (in particular children) fall through  abnormaly thin  ice.

Scientists at the University of Southern Australia have published a paper in “Nature Climate Catastrophe”, documenting the coupling of their climate and human behavior models applied to iced over ponds in Europe, Asia, and North America.

 Results show a 21 % mortality increase in the Business as Usual Case, when CO2 concentration reaches 860 ppm. The total number of additional deaths caused by the 9 degree C temperature increase,  is 22,856,300 through the year 2300. Of these,  57 % are little children, the least situationally aware portion of the population.

Children are increasingly falling through 

thin ice due to global warming. 

 The heart breaking statistic about increased child mortality,  caused by the global warming/falling through thin ice link,    was estimated using the ICES Message Climate Risk model, developed at the University’s Climate Catastrophe Institute”.

My Readers´ Digest Version of Pope Francis´ Encyclical

I just finished reading Pope Francis´”Laudato Si” (also known as ENCYCLICAL LETTER ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME), and I decided to do my Readers´ Digest abridged version, because the original is really long and boring. 

I´ve read quite a few comments from leftist atheists who are really happy because the Pope sounds like a commie environmentalist, maybe because they only read the sections they liked, or because they read the extracted material their favorite newspaper served its readership. 

The document is incredibly long, so I doubt it was read in full by anybody except by Catholic priests and a few retired folk like me. I decided to extract it and try to be faithful to the original, so I included a lot of material I liked, and some I really hated. I think I was fair and balanced, and most readers will hate portions, which is what I´m trying to achieve. 

I think having a communist Pope is fine, because Jesus talked like a communist. I´m not Christian, which means I don´t have to pay attention to what they say Jesus said (I don´t buy the tale about the New Testament being written by people who had Jesus dictating its contents). But Christians should be really happy to get a communist Pope after all these years of slave holding Popes, medieval Popes, warring Popes, and capitalist Popes who own  the  Vatican Bank and shares in a zillion companies.

 I don´t know much about religion, but my suggestion to Pope Francis is to let his inner red take over without using typical communist practices (i.e. nationalize everything, ruin the economy,  abolish democracy, and run a hereditary dictatorship like they do in North Korea and Cuba).

Instead, he should be a true communist like Jesus, start wearing very simple clothes, give away all the Catholic Church money to Syrian refugees, and embrace gay rights because after all Jesus said to turn the other cheek, and he has to be very forgiving even  if he thinks homosexuals are bad people.  

He didn´t discuss much about human rights abuses, democracy, or press censorship, but maybe in the future he will deal with these  important problems. I definitely don´t want to have Catholics following a communist Pope who forgets details like making sure dictators are driven out of power. 

Anyway, I don´t want to clutter this with my own writing. Here´s the abridged version of the Pope´s encyclical. However, a subtly related post is found here 

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/i-interview-head-of-illuminati.html

The Pope, in his own (?) words:

Pope Francis during a Catholic ritual of some sort 

Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. The violence present in our hearts is also reflected in the sickness evident in the soil, and in all forms of life.

The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together. Some forms of pollution are part of people’s daily experience. Exposure to atmospheric pollutants produces health hazards, especially for the poor. The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

My Tweet about USA -Cuba relations.

I don't use Twitter to complain about politicians, but once in a while I can't stand it. Here's a sample:

Cuba under Fidel Castro

It was never an utopia. I had nightmares after I left, they lasted for many years. In these nightmares I was back in Cuba, and I couldn't get out. My relatives who were left behind seem to be lobotomized, adapted to take the abuse. They have an odd disconnection from anything involving politics. They seem to think the regime is all powerful and omniscient. And they fear it. 

The Cuban experiment has had an interesting result: those who were like me were either driven out or murdered, what's left isn't the Cuban people who used to be. I think the Castros committed the genocide of Cuban society. What's left isn't their perfect socialist man, nor is it Cuban as we used to be. When I think if it, it's horrifying.