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@PeterBrannen1 said:
@theAGU said:
https://news.agu.org/press-release/...g-carbon-levels-not-seen-in-56-million-years/
@PeterBrannen1 said:Peter BrannenVerified account @PeterBrannen1 Feb 21
Peter Brannen Retweeted Am Geophysical Union
Fun facts about 56 million years ago: 1) No ice on Antarctica. 2) Sand tiger sharks, palm trees and crocodiles in the arctic. 3) 104°F seawater in tropics. 4) Lethally hot on many places on land. 4) Global reef collapse. 5) Geological evidence for megastorms and floods.
@theAGU said:Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56 million years.
News out of #AGUpubs https://news.agu.org/press-release/earth-may-be-140-years-away-from-reaching-carbon-levels-not-seen-in-56-million-years/ …
Calving is a normal part of the life cycle of ice shelves, but the recent changes are unfamiliar in this area. The edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf has evolved slowly since Ernest Shackleton surveyed the coast in 1915, but it has been speeding up in the past several years.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144563/countdown-to-calving-at-brunt-ice-shelfNASAearth said:Cracks growing across Brunt Ice Shelf are poised to release an iceberg about twice the size of New York City. https://go.nasa.gov/2Sbh0m5 #Antarctica #ice #Landsat
Zlabe said:Anomalously low sea ice conditions continue around Alaska in the Bering Sea region. Well above average temperatures and relentless storms (wind & waves) have significantly affected the southern extent of the ice again this winter. More info: https://earther.gizmodo.com/why-americas-northernmost-city-is-having-a-weird-hot-w-1832619602 …
Something strange is happening to the northernmost city in the United States. It’s the dead of winter, and temperatures in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) should be well below zero. Late last week, they soared into the 20s and 30s—practically beach weather for Arctic Alaska.
On February 7, temperatures in Utqiaġvik flirted with the freezing mark, possibly setting a new daily high record as the normally-solid wintertime sea ice offshore gave way to open water.
The heat wave wasn’t isolated—the entire North Slope of Alaska was running a fever -1 to 10 degrees Celsius above normal. Meanwhile, to the south, levels of ice in the Bering sea were plummeting. Since January 25, Bering sea ice has receded 35 per cent, according to Rick Thoman, a climate scientist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
All of this, Thoman says, is related to a series of storms that moved from the North Pacific into the central and western Bering starting in late January. Some of those storms continued north into the Chukchi sea as well, and in doing so “transported very warm air up to the North Slope,” Thoman told Earther. The heat wave backed off this week, with temperatures dropping back into bone-rattlingly cold (aka normal) territory, although the respite from could be short-lived.
Either way, the sudden midwinter thaw falls in line with an pattern of heat and icy woes for northern Alaska, reminding us that the region continues to be ground zero for the impacts of climate change. Data Thoman shared with Earther shows Februarys in Utqiaġvik have warmed a staggering 11 degrees Celsius over the past 50 years — the highest jump of any month, although autumns on the North Slope are also seeing very rapid warming, which helps explain why the sea ice that forms offshore as the sunlight wanes has been weak as hell lately.
That the sea ice was already in a weakened state this year almost certainly contributed to its disintegration near the shoreline last week as storms blew in, Thoman said. He noted that historically, easterly winds during the winter would cause breaks in the ice a mile or two offshore, but this year’s icy breakup was a different beast entirely.
“This event was brought to you ultimately by warm sea surface temperatures that are keeping the ice thinner so it can fracture, ” he said.
In a climate sense, the rest of the state is also sweating. Februarys along the west coast, the southwest, and in the Alaskan interior are running about 12 degrees warmer than they used to, while late winter temperatures in the south and southeast have risen anywhere from a degree and a half to nearly 14 degrees.
Four of the past five years have been the warmest on record for the Alaska, with 2018 coming in as the second warmest on record.
@ajatnuvuk said:It’s February, the coldest month of the year. We have open water in front of Utqiagvik. It is 30 F out at 11:20 at night. Strange days indeed.
I was just reading on the SMH,l
Too old for that $hit, I would get bashed, I upset everyone.lolNot again!Jesus Homer, you're in Sydney, put down the SMH and go and enjoy The Cross or something
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It's folly to suggest a well educated student who understands climate better than the average person is doing other than state the problem, and demand that those with the power to do something begin to act responsibly.In nazi germany, little Gretchen were parading as well to praise the national socialism.Propaganda was born
I find it shameful to influence and brainwash kids that age.As a teacher Basilio, you know that more than anyone else.
"the ends justify the means" is usually used by dictator and autocrats, not people i can respect but in the media washdown and social media sea of garbage, why stop there..ethics what ethics
In nazi germany, little Gretchen were parading as well to praise the national socialism.Propaganda was born
I find it shameful to influence and brainwash kids that age.As a teacher Basilio, you know that more than anyone else.
"the ends justify the means" is usually used by dictator and autocrats, not people i can respect but in the media washdown and social media sea of garbage, why stop there..ethics what ethics
Not really sorry Basilio but using teens for propaganda is sick and a sign of utter madness and fanatism.Your way out of line here QldFrog. Your comparing a single young swedish girl articulating the concern of almost all climate scientists about an issue which threatens the whole world with a NAZI germany movement attempting to justify it's internal political agenda?
Madness mate. Please think again.
Not really sorry Basilio but using teens for propaganda is sick and a sign of utter madness and fanatism.
Sorry but if a teacher does not realise it, i know where the problem is.
If the nazi example who created that trend and the first footages recordedrof this method shocks you, feel free to replace by north korea, chinese CCP or Ussr models.
same same
Carefully chosen young girl, a masterpiece of manipulation.
I pity her
Anyway, back to partying, it's a waste of time trying to get through the emptiness.
But on a less confrontaational note, what evidence you have Qfrog for saying Greta Thunberg has been manipulated ?
If other Asperger sufferers are found to be pushing a more skeptical message, will you be as cognisant of their mental acuity?Try again Ann. Great and her family disowned "We don't have time". This company had no impact on the fact that millions of people have recognised the power of her message. They were trying to jump on her back but certainly wern't manipulating her.
Gretas Asperger ? Quite real and in fact a key part of seeing the issue as clearly as she does. As she points out given the seriousness of CC one would think it would be an absolute priority. But no. Just a lot of feet shuffling and pious talk.
And of course the deniers.
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