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Massive Melting Of Greenland Ice Sheet In 4 Day Period
This should be read –> www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18978483
Despite the graphic, all the ice isn't GONE, just that it all experienced melt across the entire island. Even so, this news, given what all we know from several other weather events across the world, is definitely not good news. Note the period of time where there was massive melting occurring: over 4 days.
I've written about how climate change could happen much faster and worse than anyone can imagine when you take into account things like how fresh water melt from ice can disrupt the salinity of oceans and slow down currents like the Gulf Stream that deliver warm water north and cold water south, mixing things up and bringing temperature stability to the East Coast of North America and the West Coast of Europe. There are other such currents around the world's oceans that would have similar effects. Too, there is the concept of “methane venting”– which is what happens when methane, trapped for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years in a frozen state, either in oceans or beneath tundra, is suddenly released. There are scientists noting this has already started happening all over the world as well, as of the last 2 years. Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than even carbon dioxide, and so as it vents, it heats up the atmosphere much more quickly. Also? There are few scientific climate projections that even take massive methane venting into account. If they did, projections would be much more cataclysmic.
And here we see another of those little HINTS that all is not normal or even slightly 'off'. Things are going wrong. Not in a century from now, not 50 years from now, or 20, or 10… but actually nowish.
But its too damn late to reverse what's begun to happen. We have to watch things go nuts. The drought is becoming as bad as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s– just a couple more years of conditions like this and it will. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Russia and China, they're having devastating floods. Europe is drowning in rain. Food prices are set to rise substantially.
I'm so glad we have a garden in. Given where we know meat and dairy prices are heading, next year we're getting chickens for sure.
2012-08-23 15:13:19
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