We're Toast 6

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series of posts.

Climate Change and Environment

• Tall ice-cliffs may trigger big calving events -- and fast sea-level rise.
• The Climate Change Solution That Could Spark Global War. An all too plausible scenario.
• Polar Warning: Even Antarctica's Coldest Region Is Starting To Melt. Time to sell that Florida beachfront condo. 
• As the World Warms, Clouds Could Disappear—Catastrophically. I have read some differing opinions on the likelihood that this could happen.
• Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds.
• The Worst Disease Ever Recorded, especially if you're a frog.
• This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out. 

Politics

• The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts "illegal" or "harmful" material.
• (How) American Collapse Resembles Soviet Collapse. 

Technology

• Synthetic Biology Could Bring a Pox On Us All. Probably a bigger threat than a rogue AI.