Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re fucked. Climatologist Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland We all have our hands full at the moment, with multiple catastrophes occurring at once. Before scrolling past the headline of this diary, I implore you to explore this diary,…
Category: Deglaciation
Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F; 80 years faster than expected
Even if a small fraction of the Arctic seafloor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re fucked. Climatologist Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland We all have our hands full at the moment, with multiple catastrophes occurring at once. Before scrolling past the headline of this diary, I implore you to explore this diary,…
The speed of Abrupt Climate Change accelerates upheaval in the Arctic. And, summer 2020 is coming.
I am sharing some of the stories from the Arctic that have not received the media attention that they deserve. We can expect increasing wildfires, a busy and dangerous Atlantic storm season, and rising marine and land temperatures as a result of the incredible speed of the climate crisis. As we leap from crisis to crisis…
Siberia's record-breaking heat spreads across the Arctic kick-starting an early melt season.
There is no vaccine or hydroxychloroquine dosage that can stop an exceptional heating event happening in the Arctic. In Siberia, an intensifying heatwave threatens a disastrous melt season across the Arctic, once again. Summer is coming. We should brace ourselves for an ominous and dangerous summer of wildfire and powerful storms as intense ice melt and permafrost…
We have upset the natural cycles. Oceans are the warmest on record; whole ecosystem collapse by 2030
Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information. The high temperatures, particularly in the tropics, will help in forecasting the fierceness of the Atlantic hurricane season, and “the eruption of wildfires from the Amazon region to Australia,…
Enhanced solar absorption on Greenland is found to be a major driver of ice sheet calamity.
We have our hands full of worldwide contagion due to the incompetence of Donald Trump, Remember the same denial and sabotage of scientific facts that have led us to disaster with COVID is in overdrive at the White House when it come to dangers from climate change. What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the…
Polar ice cap melt has increased six times faster than expected and tracks the worst-case scenario.
“I find it hard to exaggerate the peril, this is the new extinction and we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get.” Sir David Attenborough Antarctic and Arctic ice caps are melting six times…
Massive and catastrophic glacier collapse with deadly mudflow near Machu Picchu, Peru.
Details at this time are unclear as to what exactly caused an enormous glacier collapse on the Andean mountain of Salkantay in Peru. Satellite images should solve the mystery of how the collapse started. There was a similar example of glacial collapse ice in 2016 in the Himalayas of Tibet but, it involved the collapse…
Seismic events claw at the Doomsday glacier by rolling icebergs slamming into the fragile ice shelf.
The most menacing glacier for coastal regions worldwide is the Thwaites glacier, aka the doomsday glacier, located in the active climate tipping point region of West Antarctica. Recently a new study found that Thwaites glacier’s marine extension’s underbelly is melting on all sides by warming ocean water. Researchers found that “the main surprise this year…
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier has yet another major calving event.
Pine Island Glacier is located in West Antarctica, has shed yet another major iceberg. The calving event is not unusual for this glacier. What is new is change over the years is that calving events have changed from a multi-year process to an annual process. The bergs from Pine Island historically have broken into one…
Waves washing over a Pacific Atoll spells catastrophe for 'premier' ballistic missile defense site.
If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston During WWII the United States took control over the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ), a part of the larger island group of Micronesia located near…
Rapid sea-level rise likely as Greenland ice-melt accelerates towards the worst-case scenario.
And what seems clear now is that Greenland is no longer changing in geological time. It is changing in human time. Jon Gertner, Yale Environment 360 …
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…
Abrupt permafrost thaw will cause Arctic wildfire severity to double from one year to the next.
The high Arctic is in serious trouble from the fossil fuel and extraction industries to the degradation of the region’s biomes from climate change. Despite the best efforts of the Trump regime to silence climate scientists, while sabotaging and burying their work, more and more studies are sounding the alarm that we are now floating…
'Like ice cream sliding off a piece of cake,' Greenland ice cap melts in a new and disturbing way.
“We have never observed an ice sheet behaving this way before. It’s unprecedented in human scientific history.” – Kristin Poinar, Glaciologist, University of Buffalo Greenland is, for the most part, a very moist environment (with the exception of northern Greenland which until recently had been a dry environment). The ice sheet works like a sponge…
Antarctic glaciers flowing 100% faster; tens of thousands of meltwater lakes mapped in E Antarctica
I keep vigil. Lots of activity on the world's largest reserve of fresh water. x Following the startling narrative of the IPCC report on the Oceans and Cryosphere, our open access paper came out yesterday in Nature Scientific Reports documenting >65,000 lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in a single melt…
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…
Record high temperatures in Alaska have sent salmon into cardiac arrest.
Humans have been eating salmon in Alaska for 11,000 years. The cold-water fish is a protein powerhouse and Alaskan wild salmon is beyond delicious. In a heating Arctic, the consequences of our fossil fuel emissions are coming under intense scrutiny. This summer in the Arctic, heat records were smashed, sea ice loss and raging wildfires…
