The climate Titanic And The Melting Icebergs

[Oscar]

The climate Titanic And The Melting Icebergs (Numerous LINKS)

[ http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/ ... -icebergs/ ]

in Climate change — by Andrew Glikson — June 30, 2016

“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” –George Orwell

March 2016 set a new record temperature for that time of year, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The global temperature was 2.30 °F (1.28 °C) warmer than the average for March from 1951 to 1980, which is used as a baseline. [ http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2432/ ]

In total, CO2 levels have risen from ~280 to ~407 ppm since the 18th century, currently rising at a rate of ~3 to 4 ppm/year as measured at Mouna Loa observatory, Hawaii [ http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ ]

Little mention is made of the existential threats posed by the climate and nuclear issues in the context of the current elections in the US and Australia.

According to the world’s climate research institutions and the bulk of the peer reviewed scientific literature, the Earth has now entered a critical stage at which amplifying feedback effects to global warming transcend points of no return. Manifestations of a shift in state of the climate include; current rise in CO2 at 3.3 parts per million per year, the fastest recorded for the last 65 million years; extreme rises in Arctic temperatures; a plethora of extreme weather events such as cyclones, floods and fires; demise of habitats such as the Great Barrier Reef where corals die due to high water temperatures and coral bleaching; and other developments.

The extreme rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide since the onset of the industrial age, and the corresponding rise in mean global temperatures as a direct result of the rise in carbon gases, pose an existential risk to the future of nature and civilization.

MORE:

[ http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/ ... -icebergs/ ]