CounterCurrents: Scientists Warn Of 10C Warming As We “Dial Up Earth’s Thermostat”

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Scientists Warn Of 10C Warming As We “Dial Up Earth’s Thermostat” 
By Andy Rowell

http://www.countercurrents.org/rowell250516.htm

Nearly every week a new record is being broken on climate. A city in the north of India has registered the highest temperature ever recorded in the country at 51 C, during a chronic heatwave which has been going on for weeks. In nearby Pakistan, three cities recorded temperatures of 50 C or higher last Friday too. The heatwave is having a devastating effect and has caused the deaths of several hundred so far. Tens of thousands of farmers have also abandoned their land with crops devastated in 13 states. Rivers, lakes and even dams have dried up. Hundreds of farmers who have been left destitute have reportedly committed suicide. In Gujarat the sizzling temperatures are so bad that bats are falling lifeless from trees and pedestrians are getting their shoes stuck in the melting roads


Sri Lankan Flood And Landslide Deaths Continue To Climb 
By Pani Wijesiriwardena

http://www.countercurrents.org/wijesiriwardena250516.htm

Tens of thousands remain homeless in Sri Lanka, while the number of people killed from Cyclone Roanu continues to rise. According to the Disaster Management Centre’s latest report, 101 people are confirmed dead in flooding and landslides. Rescue operations continue at Aranayake, where three villages were buried in a catastrophic landslide last week. Only 23 bodies have been found, out of the 134 people believed to be buried under tonnes of mud in these villages


Pain: Man’s Greatest Enemy 
By Dr. BM Hegde

http://www.countercurrents.org/hegde250516.htm

Aches and pains are a sign of life in old age and doctors and patients together drug them so much that some elderly people are on two-three PAIN KILLERS on an average! I advise them to exercise to the best of their ability to get rid of the pain instead of resting and eating the killer pain medicines. Results have been very encouraging


A Bangladeshi MP Plays Judge-Jury-Prosecutor! 
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi250516.htm

A Bangladeshi MP – who paradoxically represents the ruling coalition as well as its opposition in the parliament – recently played the proverbial role of the judge, jury and prosecutor. He and his associates publicly tortured and humiliated a headmaster of a local school at Narayanganj, for his “blasphemous” comments against Islam. I don’t want to discuss the alleged blasphemy issue; other issues are more important and relevant today. The MP-turned-judge-jury-prosecutor’s highhandedness, and the way some vested interest groups, including Islamist fanatics and communal elements are trying to defend the MP, and fish in the troubled water are very ominous indeed


The Clean Image Mirage 
By Suraj Kumar Thube

http://www.countercurrents.org/thube250516.htm

More than the alternatives that the parties offer in terms of policies ( which aren't many in any case ), it is becoming more of an issue that revolves around what mobilises particular voters at a given point of time. In this context, one can possibly discern that voting patterns based on one's social identity ( something that has been a dominant paradigm ) should be juxtaposed with an equal weightage given to economic angle of the same. To use Immanuel Kant's concepts, are Indian voters discarding the virtues of a 'moral politician' by embracing the 'political moralist' who couches the negativity attached to corruption under the guise of 'pragmatism'?


Resistance 
By Dr. M. Mohibul Haque

http://www.countercurrents.org/haque250516.htm

A time will come when singing the songs of love will be the poetry of resistance
The time is not too far when wearing the cloth of one’s choice will be the symbol of resistance
When eating the food of one’s choice will be revolt