Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2020-06-20 _F2A7626aaa
“If insects die, we die. It’s all connected.”
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“Globally, methane rose to 1924.99 ppb in December 2022, the highest in the NOAA globally averaged marine surface monthly mean methane record that goes back to July 1983.
The image has a polynomial trend added based on April 2018 to December 2022 NOAA global methane data and pointing at 1200 ppm CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent) getting crossed in 2027.
The Clouds Tipping Point, at 1200 ppm CO₂e, could be crossed and this on its own could result in a further rise of 8°C. This tipping point could be crossed as early as in 2027 due to forcing caused by the rise in methane alone. When further forcing is taken into account, this could happen even earlier than in 2027.
NOAA's 1924.99 ppb for the December 2022 global methane mean translates into 385 ppm CO₂e when using a 1-year GWP of 200 for methane.
So, adding this 385 ppm CO₂e to 424.5 ppm CO₂ would leave just 390.5 ppm CO₂e for further forcing, before the Clouds Tipping Point would get crossed.
Methane at higher altitude can reach even higher levels than NOAA's global marine surface data. Monthly methane rose to above 1950 ppb recently at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Further changes such as caused by sea ice loss and changes in aerosols can also speed up the temperature rise.
Vast amounts of ocean heat are headed to invade the Arctic. Last year, North Atlantic sea surface temperatures reached a record high of 24.9°C in early September. The continuing rise of ocean heat threatens to trigger massive loss of sea ice and eruptions of methane from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean.
All this is pushing up temperatures and will likely keep pushing up temperatures even further over the next few years. To say that the situation is dangerous is a vast understatement.
From the post 'IPCC keeps downplaying the danger even as reality strikes', at:”
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“Untamed Global Warming Risks Soaring Death Toll in Middle East”
“Heat-related deaths in the Middle East will multiply 60-fold in the region by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, according to a new study.”
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“Half The Gov’t Investigators In East Palestine Got Sick!”
“Within a couple of weeks of the East Palestine train derailment and “controlled” burn of toxic chemicals that had been released into the air, Ohio state officials reassured residents that the air and water were safe for human consumption. But then this past week the CDC revealed that nearly half of the workers investigating the East Palestine area have fallen sick with respiratory ailments. Does that sound perfectly safe to you?”
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“Bob McCormickThe Greta Effect
April 6 at 1:08 PM
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Annually, we spend 10 times more on our militaries than the UN estimates would be needed to end hunger and poverty for all existing humans.
We continue to live unsustainably and the World Health Organization advises us that 95% of our children are breathing toxic air.
1% of us control 50% of our wealth and 10% control 82%.
There is nothing set in stone when it comes to creations of our minds. Our documents, our institutions, and our laws are all creations of past human thinking. When these creations are no longer capable of guiding the behavior of existing humans, it is our sole responsibility to update the documents, institutions, and laws used to guide our behavior and our activities in a manner commensurate with our times and our thinking about what it means to be just.
A growing number of our own children are calling for an end to the intergenerational injustice that comes with our ongoing refusal to update our thoughts on acceptable human behavior.”
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“GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS KEEP RISING
Carbon dioxide was as high as about 424.5 ppm in a flask measurement in February 2023 at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Monthly methane rose to above 1950 ppb in December 2022 at Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Monthly global nitrous oxide rose to 336.33 ppb in December 2022.
A recent study found that atmospheric abundances and emissions of five CFCs (CFC-13, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, CFC-114a and CFC-115) increased between 2010 and 2020.
From the post 'IPCC keeps downplaying the danger even as reality strikes', at:”
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“Dr. Peter Gleick is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on global water and climate issues.”
“Just a reminder that actual observations and evidence all point to the fact that climate scientists are far more likely to have *underestimated* the impacts, speed, and severity of climate change than overestimated them.”
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“You lessen crime by eliminating poverty. You lessen crime with universal healthcare, public housing, strong unions, high wages, universal childcare, and free college.
You lessen violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t fighting over material resources”
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Death of aspirations: public television is running advertising that aims to convince people not to go to college. Saying all is fine without it as young factory workers busy themselves in the background
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American citizens are going to learn the hard way that the world is the Ukrainian battlefield and some just threw a bric through the proverbial humvee in Kiev not to mention shot down the US dollar,…but the rich are getting richer
Ukraine v2.0: As Taiwanese elections loom anti-China candidate is rolling in cash$ and luxuriating in Washington’s bipartisan attention.
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