Though temperatures have cooled somewhat in Australia, providing much-needed relief for the overworked and exhausted firefighters, provides some critical time to strengthen containment lines the firestorms have not stopped. They are predicted to intensify in the next few days as yet another heatwave will desiccate the soils, plants, and trees of Australia to tinder. Many…
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Quantifiable evidence that Antarctica's weakened ice shelves cause ice to 'move from land to sea'.
“Ice shelves are the most vulnerable parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet system and we know that they are shrinking, but what we didn’t know before this work was how that was impacting the grounded ice behind them.” Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Disheartening news out of Antarctica, once again, as researchers found the “first…
Greenland's Inuit traumatized by the climate crisis; N. Atlantic Current slows due to melting
I am not sure if people realize the significance of the dramatic and probable, irreversible loss of Greenland's ice by warming oceans and atmospheric changes. Most of the time I feel a good majority simply don’t give a rat’s ass. Here is a tip for you, if you even bothered reading this far, start planning…
Dead bodies piling up on Alaska's beaches due to an extraordinary marine heatwave.
And all those facing outward, towards the planetary, the geologic, the unknown, raised a great cry, a witnessing of the very tide that had been predicted. Homo Colossus did not stir from its dream of currency. The Greenland Ice Sheet. All of the sea ice has melted around the Alaskan coast for up to 150…
Alaskan marine-terminating glacier melting 100 times faster than current models predict.
“We found that melt rates are significantly higher than expected across the whole underwater face of the glacier – in some places 100 times higher than theory would predict.” – Rebecca Jackson Trouble with tidewater glaciers. The American Association for the Advancement of Science writes: The newly observed melt rates are up to two orders…
Peat, the world's largest terrestrial carbon store, ignites into 'unprecedented' Arctic firestorms.
Throughout the High Arctic of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia unprecedented wildfires are raging. Thanks to stunning satellite images from NASA and the EU of the burning Arctic, this crisis has made international headlines. MSNBC discussed these fires yesterday and today I saw CNN, give this nightmare the coverage that it deserves even though it was just…
Wildfires sweep across the Arctic circle; seventy percent of soil carbon could be lost by 2100.
It’s time to tell the full truth. It’s time to pursue hospice, with as much honesty, integrity, and compassion as we can muster. It’s time to admit that ignoring the decades-long warnings about climate change have led directly to the expected outcome. It’s time to comfort the afflicted, which includes each of us. Guy McPherson…
Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and predicted the CO2 milestone of 2019.
If you do not pay attention, then how can you prepare yourself for what is to come? This critical moment in time is, our last chance to act before it is too late, most will scroll past this diary, and other stories like it on this site and I would like to know why. I’m…
