gone unmentioned by both Clinton and Trump. They're both alike in this.

but I'm not up to documenting it all. So I'll just dump a little of it here.

The Earth has for the last 2 billion years existed in a range of global average temperatures of 12 to 22 degrees (everything in Celsius). During the PETM (Permian Extinction Thermal Maximum) this popped to 23 degrees for some reason, 90 percent of ocean species went extinct, 95 percent of terrestrial species went extinct.
Exclusive of that little detail, we are looking at a 10 degree range from ice age to hot house Earth where mammals basically can't survive. Don't think humans will still be around at 21 C, we won't be the first mammal to go extinct, but we will be far from the last.
The reporting agencies all (for some reason) report temperatures as a difference from a baseline, and there are multiple baselines in common use. Scientists are careful about which baseline they use at any given time, journalists much less so, and deniers will frequently move the goal posts by taking a different baseline.
NOAA reports the 20th century average (the baseline they most often use) as 13.9 C.
NASA frequently uses the 1951-1980 average as its baseline (except when they don't), which if my math is correct is 13.85 C.
We talk about a goal of no more than 2 C above "the preindustrial temperature". Then they use the 1880-1890 temperature as that baseline, as that is the earliest reliable instrumental (people regularly checking thermometers and recording the results across much of the land and at least some of the sea) record. NASA reports that as -0.2 against their 1951-1980 baseline, so 13.65 C. Of course, that isn't actually pre-industrial, it was 130 years into the industrial revolution. I don't know what the original goal of 2 C was supposed to be against, it was never a scientific number it was an economic number adopted by the scientific community because why not. Estimates are that the 1750 temperatures were another -0.2 C from there, or about 13.45 C.
So 12 C is an ice age, we were at about 13.45 C when Watt got his steam engine working (this is probably the optimal temperature for humans, the plant and animal communities we depend on, and human civilization), and the 20th century average was 13.9. Our 2 C goal is probably supposed to be 15.65 C (2 degrees above the 1880-1890 average).
Note that there is little difference between the 1951-1980 average and the 20th century average. Things really started to head up in the last couple of decades, but didn't pull up the average of the previous 80 years all that much.
Global average temperature in 2014 was 14.59 C, in 2015 it was 14.72 C.
The "stretch" goal of 1.5 C warming in the Paris agreement was in response to the growing consensus that 2 C will be a disaster.

From Nature 30 June 2016

The Paris climate agreement aims at holding global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to “pursue efforts” to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To accomplish this, countries have submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) outlining their post-2020 climate action. ... The INDCs collectively lower greenhouse gas emissions compared to where current policies stand, but still imply a median warming of 2.6–3.1 degrees Celsius by 2100. More can be achieved, because the agreement stipulates that targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are strengthened over time, both in ambition and scope. Substantial enhancement or over-delivery on current INDCs by additional national, sub-national and non-state actions is required to maintain a reasonable chance of meeting the target of keeping warming well below 2 degrees Celsius.

The plan as agreed to won't get us there. The ink isn't dry on the agreement yet.

I'm not sure that 3.5 C of warming means human extinction. Nobody knows. The numbers I use are that the die-off starts around 2 C, 4 C means no more industrial civilization, 6 C is full on human extinction. Feel free to pick your own numbers.

Back to the absolute scale:
12 C - ice age
13.5 C - ideal human conditions
14.7 C - 2015 global average temperature
15.2 C - Paris stretch goal (probably too late for this)
15.7 C - 2 degree goal (perhaps the start of the die-off)
17.7 C - no more industrial civilization
19.7 C - human extinction
22 C - top of the scale, few if any mammals exist

This year has been much hotter than 2015, but monthly averages can't be compared against annual averages.We won't know the final numbers until January, of course. Still, it would take a major cooling trend to pull them down much at this point.

From NOAA

The average global land and ocean surface temperature for January–June 2016 was 1.05°C (1.89°F) above the 20th century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F)—the highest global land and ocean temperature for January–June in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.20°C (0.36°F).

Note that the 20th century average 15.5 C is for the January-June period, not the full year (so is different than above). The notable figure is that so far this year is 0.2 C hotter than the same period in 2015.

El Nino is over, the La Nina pattern is forming. We need to see just how much of this extra heat radiates off into space. The 1997-1998 El Nino boosted global average temperatures by about 0.15 C, then fell back about 0.1 C. We got much more than that from this slightly weaker El Nino, it remains to be seen how much cooling we see over the next few months. BTW, El Nino contributed to 2015 temperatures as well.

TL;DR - it's fooking hot and getting hotter, and it's later than you think.

to the mix and it's a dead certain catastrophe.

Certain Euro countries have shown how quickly a country can convert to renewables but in the USA, no politician with a national audience will speak out and keep hammering on the existential threat we face.

The incrementalists seem to be happy that the rich will die last.

Hope Bernie jumps on board too.

The article gives a name to something we have experienced here in Texas quite a few times this past year and a half ... "Rain bombs." And wild electrical storms. On July 4 we had a rain bomb. 4 inches in 2 hours. It was preceded by the loudest wildest thunderstorm I have ever witnessed. Freaked me out.

Mother Nature will help folks vote green. Unfortunately, it will take something spectacular to shake the shit out of some. IMO super storms on the ocean will do it. Hope not too many more people have to die first.

in Philly this last week, maybe not as bad as described above, but the worse thunderstorms I've witnessed in years. And then heat and humidity that made it feel like you were taking a steam bath.

We either change or we die. It's that simple.. As Jill Stein said in her speech at the People's Convention, the solutions are out there now. We just have to have the political will to take them.

This came Jill during an interview with Democracy Now:

We’ve heard from the NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, recently. They just got an "oh, my god" report from the—from the Antarctic, which they will be rolling out written reports about soon, but this was a verbal report saying that we can expect as much as nine feet of sea level rise by 2050, unless we have a dramatic turnaround.