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Another piece of Arctic sea ice destruction confirmed; 'Heat Bombs' from the Pacific.

The ‘heat bombs’ destroying Arctic sea ice

According to new findings from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, primarily in summer, unprecedented quantities of heat from the Pacific are pouring into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. This likely explains the rapid decimation of sea ice in the region. The decline has...

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April 23, 2021

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The Brunt ice shelf calved an iceberg that is one mile thick and the size of London.

The rift on Antarctica’s Brunt ice shelf has torn itself away from the glacier resulting in a massive iceberg that is known as A74. British Antarctic Survey has been monitoring the glacier for years. The shelf was at its largest extent for over 100 years. The Brits have relocated their research station twice...

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February 26, 2021

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The Christophe de Margerie makes history in the Arctic; Jet stream collapse leads to mass starvation

The “Arctic is already under such threat from so many angles, and while production there is expensive, it is also very, very high risk. It requires absolutely the strongest levels of global oversight.” Phoebe Barnard, Professor at Washington’s Conservation Biology Institute Putin’s Russia made history today when the Christophe de Margerie, the enormous...

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February 16, 2021

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Breaking: Considered stable, Antarctica's Larsen D ice shelf, calved two named icebergs.

Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks free - Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Nobody has reported on this discouraging news as of yet. The last news I saw on Larsen D was from June of 2020, when satellites revealed cracks on the massive ice shelf. Suitland, MD — The Larsen-D Ice Shelf calved two more icebergs which are large enough to be named....

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February 1, 2021

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Siberia's peat climate bomb is burning despite minus fifty-eight degree Fahrenheit temperatures.

I keep vigil. Last summer, record-breaking wildfires in Siberia, “in and around the Arctic circle,” continue to smolder and burn; the fuel feeding the fires is peat, decomposing organic matter that has been stored in the earth for millenniums. According to NASA estimates, at least half of wildfires burned in Siberia in the...

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January 29, 2021

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Siberia's Laptev and Kara sub-sea methane activated.

“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. Dozens of scientists from Sweden, Russia, China, and seven other countries studied methane emissions...

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November 23, 2020

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Laptev and East Siberian sub-sea methane activated.

“It’s gotten so out of whack that we are now looking at survival for our children, not survival of our grandchildren.”, Peter Carter, M.D., – reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. Dozens of scientists from Sweden, Russia, China, and seven other countries studied methane emissions...

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November 23, 2020

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Mount Kilimanjaro is on fire.

The highest free-standing mountain on earth is on fire—Mount Kilimanjaro (elevation 19,341above sea level) located in Tanzania. Africa's tallest peak consists of three dormant volcanic cones – Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. Wildfires have been increasing in number and intensity across the entire planet. This fire is especially cruel as wildlife may not flee in...

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October 12, 2020

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Antarctica's Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are tearing themselves apart, and it is horrifying.

It is no surprise to those who follow the deglaciation process in Antarctica and are aware of the real threat posed by these glacial behemoths to human civilization. Rapid sea-level rise is likely when Pine Island and Thwaites (A/K/A The Doomsday glacier) glaciers collapse and take all of West Antarctica with them....

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September 23, 2020

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The front of Greenland's NE ice stream has shattered – it will funnel the interior ice to the ocean.

Bad bad news for you and me. Be kind to each other. Satellite imagery from the European Space Agencies Copernicus has revealed that the front of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in NE Greenland has disintegrated. Greenland has experienced a rapid temperature rise in the atmosphere by 5.5 Fahrenheit since 1980. Mind-blowing melting has...

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September 14, 2020

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Sixty percent of Antarctica's nation-sized glacier plugs are vulnerable to fracture and collapse.

$Areas of Antarctic ice shelves buttressing glaciers vulnerable to hydrofracturing are shown in red. Blue areas adjoining the ocean are vulnerable too, but those portions do not help hold back glaciers. Smaller green and yellow areas closer to land are less vulnerable.$

“Oh yes Sapiens, you hungry little monkey, it's all about you” comment via Greenland Ice Sheet — Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn New research has found that 50-70% of Antarctica's glacier marine extensions are at risk of hydrofracture due to enormous meltwater lakes on the...

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September 3, 2020

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Siberia's record heat caused an oozing tundra soil full of methane to blast rock and ice to the sky.

Сенсационная находка: на Ямале вновь обнаружили огромную воронку

Due to a buildup in methane in a rapidly heating Siberia, an explosion occurred that tossed boulders of frozen soil and ice “hundreds of metres” into the sky from the epicenter of the blast in the Yamal Penninsula. The powerful blast site was discovered by accident when a TV news crew...

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August 29, 2020

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Greenland ice cap melt has reached the point of no return.

Devastating and scary news from the Arctic as Greenland has reached the tipping point. The melting of our northern freezer which allows our civilization to flourish has reached the point of no return, even if we cut our emissions to zero. The tipping point is where snowfall “that replenishes the ice...

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August 14, 2020

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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...

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June 21, 2020

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Hottest day ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle; reached 100.4 F; 80 years faster than expected

A ‘graveyard’ for trees in Siberia after a fire event in 2019.

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...

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June 21, 2020

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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...

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June 11, 2020

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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...

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May 19, 2020

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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...

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April 28, 2020

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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...

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April 17, 2020

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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...

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March 16, 2020

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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...

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February 28, 2020

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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.

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...

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February 24, 2020

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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...

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February 10, 2020

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Waves washing over a Pacific Atoll spells catastrophe for 'premier' ballistic missile defense site.

Trump: 'I don't believe' gov't climate report

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...

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February 1, 2020

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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 ...

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December 12, 2019

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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)

“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,...

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December 4, 2019

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Abrupt permafrost thaw will cause Arctic wildfire severity to double from one year to the next.

forêt à perte de vue... forest..as far as the eyes can see

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...

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November 15, 2019

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'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...

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October 8, 2019

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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...

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October 1, 2019

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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...

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August 16, 2019

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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...

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August 14, 2019

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Alaskan marine-terminating glacier melting 100 times faster than current models predict.

A time-lapse video taken over 8 hours from a ridge above LeConte Glacier shows the strong meltwater plume flowing away from the glacier, as well as icebergs calving and swirling in the near-glacier fjord.

“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...

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July 30, 2019

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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...

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July 22, 2019

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A precipitous drop in Antarctic sea ice wiped out three decades of gains in under three years.

A NASA study found that Antarctica’s sea ice plunged from record highs to record lows in just three years (2014-2017). The difference is the loss of an area the size of Mexico. Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press writes:: The amount of ice circling Antarctica is suddenly plunging from a...

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July 10, 2019

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Just an additional half degree of temperature rise and we lose the Antarctic Peninsula.

The Paris Climate Accord goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius was to prevent runaway climate change (the world is currently at a 1C increase above preindustrial temperatures ). The study authors did note that humanity can avoid the loss of the Antarctic Peninsula by keeping temperature rise to...

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July 9, 2019

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Wildfires sweep across the Arctic circle; seventy percent of soil carbon could be lost by 2100.

(May 2019) Batagay in the district of Verkhoyansk, within the Arctic Circle, in Siberia’s Republic of Sakha There is still ice in lakes and rivers, but the tundra is on fire!

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...

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July 5, 2019

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Nares Strait Ice Arch collapses early – flushing old sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean into Baffin Bay

The left image shows the arch when it was still mostly intact on March 19, 2019. Notice the long, linear cloud streamers just south of the arch. This cloud type usually forms in the presence of strong winds, one factor that can help an ice arch collapse. By April 14 the solid pack of ice behind the arch was crumbling (middle), and by May 25 the broken bits were flowing freely through the Nares Strait (right).

Kathryn Hansen of NASA's Earth Observatory writes on the disturbing story out of the Arctic when the Nares Strait sea ice arch collapsed 2 months early in March instead of the normal June or July. Arches, whether formed by nature or engineered by humans, commonly tower above the ground. Not...

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June 26, 2019

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Iceberg calving from Greenlandic glaciers surges as 2019 surface melt season may be record-breaking.

“When you look at several decades, it is best to sit back in your chair before looking at the results, because it is a bit scary to see how fast it is changing,” French glaciologist Eric Rignot, of the University of California at Irvine Abrupt! Climate! Emergency! I was perusing my...

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June 17, 2019