Tipping point being reached in the Amazon.

[Richard D]

MUTUM, Brazil — A motorboat barreling through the night up a shallow Amazon stream could only beat the odds for so long.

Just after 9 p.m., the aluminum canoe slammed to a halt with the sound of a thunderclap. Passengers and cargo lurched into the air. Shouts of surprise, profanity and a man-sized splash echoed in the dark.

A swift lesson on Newtonian physics and the risks of night boating had been delivered by a large, semi-submerged tree.

The mishap demonstrated what everyone in this remote corner of the Brazilian jungle had been saying for days.

The world’s largest rain forest was dangerously dry, and may well be drying out.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/brazil/101102/amazon-drought-climate-change

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. But the children in DC are holding hearings

on the fraud that is global warming... and like unamerican and shit.

Serious.

The three year olds throwing a tantrum won't get it until their own back yard is burning... and then MAYBE... it could be Jayzus punishing them for the Gay... a more likely explanation in their puny weeny brains.

By the way nothing against Christians, just fundies. And all religions happen to have them, ours happen to be "christian"

[Catherina]

2. Rec'd. We'll care one day, when it affects us directly and is too late n/t

[pscot]

3. Sixty years of cowboy capitalism

It can't go on, but they can't stop themselves. It's the end game.

[thunder rising]

4. Warning!! This scam ran 4/5 years ago. The tributaries dry up annually.

[Richard D]

5. You might want to look into this idea

I have many friends who have lived in the Amazon for years. They all say that they've never seen anything like this year.