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Seismic events claw at the Doomsday glacier by rolling icebergs slamming into the fragile ice shelf.

Scenarios for iceberg calving at fast tidewater glaciers. Buoyancy-driven calving is likely to produce icebergs with small width-to-height ratios that will capsize against the terminus front. The generated iceberg-to-terminus contact force is responsible for the production of glacial earthquakes.

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Seismic events claw at the Doomsday glacier by rolling icebergs slamming into the fragile ice shelf.

Pakalolo February 24, 2020

The most menacing glacier for coastal regions worldwide is the Thwaites glacier, aka the doomsday glacier, located...

Climate breakdown shock – Ocean circulation is ramping up significantly due to global heating.

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Climate breakdown shock – Ocean circulation is ramping up significantly due to global heating.

Pakalolo February 7, 2020

Faster than previously expected. Those four words are horrifying when it comes to describing the changes to...

Satellites show Antarctica's doomsday glacier is 'coming apart at the seams'.

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Satellites show Antarctica's doomsday glacier is 'coming apart at the seams'.

Pakalolo February 6, 2020

Leading scientists have warned that nine of the tipping points identified over a decade ago are now...

The platypus, one of the world's Gondwana 'dinosaur' lineages, face extirpation from climate change.

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The platypus, one of the world's Gondwana 'dinosaur' lineages, face extirpation from climate change.

Pakalolo January 21, 2020

The raging bushfires and intense drought that has plagued the Australian continent for several months have taken...

Adani gets it's filthy hands on QLD's Galilee Basin; Insurers feast on climate refugee misery.

Platypus {Ornithorhynchus anatinus} swimming underwater Tasmania, Australia. Commposite.

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Adani gets it's filthy hands on QLD's Galilee Basin; Insurers feast on climate refugee misery.

Pakalolo January 19, 2020

The moment of crisis has come. Sir David Attenborough Adani is a global company based in Ahmedabad,...

Australian fires may have opened the gates of hell by changing the globe's climate patterns.

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Australian fires may have opened the gates of hell by changing the globe's climate patterns.

Pakalolo January 15, 2020

The smoke from Australia’s raging bushfires will make the full circuit around the globe and return to...

Climate models suggest global food system crisis at hand; dust bowl scenarios now locked in.

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Climate models suggest global food system crisis at hand; dust bowl scenarios now locked in.

Pakalolo January 13, 2020

We know from the National Climate Assessment that climate disruptions to agriculture over the past 40 years...

As flames burn Australia, Indonesians face a climate crisis of their own, billionaire class shrugs.

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As flames burn Australia, Indonesians face a climate crisis of their own, billionaire class shrugs.

Pakalolo January 9, 2020

Indonesia is one of the most vulnerable nations on earth to climate change. Indonesians will face more...

Australia's burned forests may never recover; Over one billion animals die in fires and heatwaves.

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Australia's burned forests may never recover; Over one billion animals die in fires and heatwaves.

Pakalolo January 9, 2020

Though temperatures have cooled somewhat in Australia, providing much-needed relief for the overworked and exhausted firefighters, provides...

Western Australia will experience the first cyclone of summer with heavy rain and strong winds.

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Western Australia will experience the first cyclone of summer with heavy rain and strong winds.

Pakalolo January 7, 2020

Some good news for the north coast of Western Australia. A tropical Cyclone promises heavy rain and...

Fire and heat conditions in Australia 'may not be survivable' for those 'too late' to escape.

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Fire and heat conditions in Australia 'may not be survivable' for those 'too late' to escape.

Pakalolo January 4, 2020

The firestorms continue unabated in smoldering Australia. If you are a praying person, now would be the...

Half a billion animals incinerated in Australia

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Half a billion animals incinerated in Australia

Pakalolo January 1, 2020

“The anger is real. The anger is justified. Because this disaster was all foreseen and predicted. For...

Thousands celebrating New Years Eve in Australia flee into the ocean to escape raging bushfires.

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Thousands celebrating New Years Eve in Australia flee into the ocean to escape raging bushfires.

Pakalolo December 31, 2019

Climate change, it’s here. Perhaps it is time that the world helps Australia in their moment of...

For millions of years, the permanent wet remnants of Gondwana forest have never burned, until now.

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For millions of years, the permanent wet remnants of Gondwana forest have never burned, until now.

Pakalolo December 17, 2019

“Friends. Shit is getting well-serious. I am at my place at the very top of the Bellinger...

Quantifiable evidence that Antarctica's weakened ice shelves cause ice to 'move from land to sea'.

25 Years of Antarctic Land Ice Elevation Change Anomalies (West Coast Fly Over)

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Quantifiable evidence that Antarctica's weakened ice shelves cause ice to 'move from land to sea'.

Pakalolo December 4, 2019

“Ice shelves are the most vulnerable parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet system and we know that they...

Sydney, population five million, receives first ever 'catastrophic fire warning'.

Sydney skyline blanketed in wildfire smoke.

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Sydney, population five million, receives first ever 'catastrophic fire warning'.

Pakalolo November 12, 2019

Yesterday not a single drop of rain fell on continental Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology was unable...

Alaskan climate shocks hinder migration of Bowhead whales through the Bering Sea to the Beaufort.

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Alaskan climate shocks hinder migration of Bowhead whales through the Bering Sea to the Beaufort.

Pakalolo November 5, 2019

The Arctic has been warming faster than any other region on earth. The marginal sea of the...

The tipping point for Antarctica is closer than we thought.

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The tipping point for Antarctica is closer than we thought.

Pakalolo October 31, 2019

Three new studies raise the specter that the great ice platforms of the Antarctic continent are more...

US Army finds that the 'military could collapse within twenty years' thanks to climate breakdown.

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US Army finds that the 'military could collapse within twenty years' thanks to climate breakdown.

Pakalolo October 26, 2019

According to a new report prepared by the US Army and, commissioned by the Pentagon, found that...

As permafrost slumps and turns to mud, a large climate study finds global impacts are imminent.

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As permafrost slumps and turns to mud, a large climate study finds global impacts are imminent.

Pakalolo October 23, 2019

The Arctic is unraveling before our eyes. As our understanding of the changes continues, scientists have been...

A new fast-moving lethal disease has spread from the Florida Reef to the corals of the Caribbean

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A new fast-moving lethal disease has spread from the Florida Reef to the corals of the Caribbean

Pakalolo October 9, 2019

“All the diseases I’ve studied in the past could be considered like the flu. They come every...

'Like ice cream sliding off a piece of cake,' Greenland ice cap melts in a new and disturbing way.

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'Like ice cream sliding off a piece of cake,' Greenland ice cap melts in a new and disturbing way.

Pakalolo October 8, 2019

“We have never observed an ice sheet behaving this way before. It’s unprecedented in human scientific history.”...

Antarctic glaciers flowing 100% faster; tens of thousands of meltwater lakes mapped in E Antarctica

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Antarctic glaciers flowing 100% faster; tens of thousands of meltwater lakes mapped in E Antarctica

Pakalolo October 1, 2019

I keep vigil. Lots of activity on the world's largest reserve of fresh water. x Following the...

Indonesian oligarchs took advantage of a US law and created a climate calamity of global consequence

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Indonesian oligarchs took advantage of a US law and created a climate calamity of global consequence

Pakalolo September 24, 2019

“We’ve created a situation that is so contrary to what we had hoped for. We’re doing more...

The greatest orgy in the world, with its blizzard of the particles of life, disrupted by warming.

Coral gametes floating on the surface of the ocean.

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The greatest orgy in the world, with its blizzard of the particles of life, disrupted by warming.

Pakalolo September 21, 2019

Disruption is not a good thing for the web of life. It often leads to extinction. One...

Aussies face climate apocalypse due to a sudden stratospheric heating event above Antarctica.

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Aussies face climate apocalypse due to a sudden stratospheric heating event above Antarctica.

Pakalolo September 13, 2019

Large swathes of New South Wales and southern Queensland will face catastrophic weather events over the next...

Dorian, one of the most powerful and slow-moving storms on record, decelerated the Florida Current.

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Dorian, one of the most powerful and slow-moving storms on record, decelerated the Florida Current.

Pakalolo September 9, 2019

The Gulf Stream, if viewed from above, is a deep dark blue stream of ocean off the...

Dorian destroyed oil storage facility on Grand Bahama resulting in catastrophic environmental damage

Here, the South Riding Point oil terminal’s on-shore tanks are covered in oil. Oil is also strewn across the soil and pavement of the site.

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Dorian destroyed oil storage facility on Grand Bahama resulting in catastrophic environmental damage

Pakalolo September 7, 2019

As if the misery of the Bahamian people was not horrifying enough, the apocalyptic winds of Hurricane...

Videos trickle out of the northern Bahamas; Donation links.

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Videos trickle out of the northern Bahamas; Donation links.

Pakalolo September 2, 2019

My local news channel just reported that a church filled with people riding out the storm together...

Cape Town's Great White Sharks have vanished.

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Cape Town's Great White Sharks have vanished.

Pakalolo August 29, 2019

This is interesting. Nobody knows where or why these apex predators have vanished to, but they have...

Scorpions migrating from climate change and deforestation, invade urban Brazil.

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Scorpions migrating from climate change and deforestation, invade urban Brazil.

Pakalolo August 24, 2019

Sao Paulo is the largest city in the southern hemisphere. It has a population of 11 million...

For the first time in recorded history, Anchorage enters “extreme drought”.

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For the first time in recorded history, Anchorage enters “extreme drought”.

Pakalolo August 23, 2019

Alaska's temperate rainforest is in a historic drought. The climate crisis is known to alter the Globe's...

Greenland's Inuit traumatized by the climate crisis; N. Atlantic Current slows due to melting

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Greenland's Inuit traumatized by the climate crisis; N. Atlantic Current slows due to melting

Pakalolo August 16, 2019

I am not sure if people realize the significance of the dramatic and probable, irreversible loss of...

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