“The oil industry has tried, over and over again, to make the case for carbon capture. Even though some big green orgs are falling for it, it has never worked. It's ineffective, dangerous, and a completely false solution.”
“The Oil Industry’s New Climate Change Solution Is More Pipelines
Fossil fuel companies and their executives are banking on carbon capture as a boon for the green economy. Environmentalists say this is a climate myth.”
Luna Moth (Actias luna)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2017 6/12 022aaa2
“The melting of ice across the planet is accelerating at a record rate, with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up the fastest, research has found.
The rate of loss is now in line with the worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on the climate, according to a paper published on Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.
Thomas Slater, lead author and research fellow at the centre for polar observation and modelling at the University of Leeds, warned that the consequences would be felt around the world. “Sea level rise on this scale will have very serious impacts on coastal communities this century,” he said.
which the authors of the paper calculate would be enough to put an ice sheet 100 metres thick across the UK. About two thirds of the ice loss was caused by the warming of the atmosphere, with about a third caused by the warming of the seas.About 28 tn tonnes of ice was lost between 1994 and 2017.
Over the period studied, the rate of ice loss accelerated by 57%, the paper found, from 0.8tn tonnes a year in the 1990s to 1.2tn tonnes a year by 2017. About half of all the ice lost was from land, which contributes directly to global sea level rises. The ice loss over the study period, from 1994 to 2017, is estimated to have raised sea levels by 35 millimetres.
The greatest quantities of ice were lost from floating ice in the polar regions, raising the risk of a feedback mechanism known as albedo loss. White ice reflects solar radiation back into space – the albedo effect – but when floating sea ice melts it uncovers dark water which absorbs more heat, speeding up the warming further in a feedback loop.
Glaciers which the authors of the paper calculate would be enough to put an ice sheet 100 metres thick across the UK. About two thirds of the ice loss was caused by the warming of the atmosphere, with about a third caused by the warming of the seas.
Over the period studied, the rate of ice loss accelerated by 57%, the paper found, from 0.8tn tonnes a year in the 1990s to 1.2tn tonnes a year by 2017. About half of all the ice lost was from land, which contributes directly to global sea level rises. The ice loss over the study period, from 1994 to 2017, is estimated to have raised sea levels by 35 millimetres.
The greatest quantities of ice were lost from floating ice in the polar regions, raising the risk of a feedback mechanism known as albedo loss. White ice reflects solar radiation back into space – the albedo effect – but when floating sea ice melts it uncovers dark water which absorbs more heat, speeding up the warming further in a feedback loop.
The Guardian”
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August 3 MAP of Today’s wildfires - A nightmare for nature brought to you by Washington controlled by Charles Koch who actually wants to annihilate nature:
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Wisconsin again,..
“‘An abomination’: the story of the massacre that killed 216 wolves”
“In Wisconsin, hunters are allowed to use hound dogs to kill wolves. In the midst of a politically volatile context, activists are now filming the hunts to raise the alarm”
"After just two and a half days, hunters were already approaching the limit. Before regulators could shut down the hunt, 216 wolves had been killed – overshooting the quota by 83%."
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“Desecration of indigenous peoples’ cultures & remains in WI must stop”
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“SATELLITE IMAGES REVEAL A CLIMATE CRISIS NIGHTMARE IN SIBERIA
Understanding this study’s findings “may make the difference between catastrophe and apocalypse.””
Quote: “Now, scientists suggest another factor that demands our attention: According to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, considerable amounts of methane are being released from a previously unexplored source.”
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“The melting permafrosts could be losing 89% by 2100. Siberian and Alaska will become the big pinch by this report. Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
The international Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) said in a new report on Thursday.”
“Siberia and other Northern Russian regions are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the impact of the climate crisis, which is accelerating exceptionally fast in the Arctic regions, the international Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) said in a new report on Thursday.
The Arctic is warming roughly three times faster than the planet as a whole, scientists warned in the report. Annual Arctic temperatures are now 3.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, while Earth in general has warmed by 1.2 C. However, the present scale of weather disasters is much bigger than climate scientists had anticipated for this level of global warming.
Permafrost currently covers about 65% of Russian territory, but is melting fast due to the climate crisis. The Republic of Sakha and the Chukotka and Magadan regions are the most vulnerable to permafrost collapse, according to the report.
“Scientists have been shocked that the warm weather conducive to permafrost thawing is occurring roughly 70 years ahead of model projections,” it said.
The report also warned that by 2100 the Arctic could have lost 89% of its permafrost.
“Rapid Arctic Warming Is Accelerating Permafrost Collapse in Siberia, New Report Warns”
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“I wonder is all the smoke, the "Aerosol Masking Effect" slowing down the melt rate?”
“Wildfire Smoke “Airpocalypse” in Siberia Grounds Flights, Threatens Human Health”
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“Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says
Leak of potent greenhouse gas is currently small but further research is urgently needed, say scientists”
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Val Eisman \ Arctic news:
"As the climate warms, this thawing process has begun. Permafrost temperatures are rising at a much faster rate than the temperature of the air in the Arctic, and have risen between 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius in the last 30 years. As a result, permafrost layers are melting. A 3 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures could melt 30 to 85 percent of the top permafrost layers. If these top layers continue to melt, the vast carbon reservoirs might release into the atmosphere either as carbon or methane, intensifying global climate change."
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The goal is to have us hate government, so we don’t complain when they privatize it or eliminate it piece by piece:
“Sure Biden is s**t. That’s what happens in a system which elevates s**t. That’s why his predecessor was shit, and why his replacement will be shit. Without that system Biden would just be some creepy a**hole in an assisted living facility who all the caregivers try to avoid.”
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“Science Update: Shifting the Baseline”
Kevin Hester:
“As we circle the drain of abrupt climate change leading to biosphere collapse there is a recurring theme in the corporate media and 'owned' scientific voices like the liar Michael Mann, to down play the amount of warming we have already unleashed and what a safe level of warming really was.
I've been writing about this issue of dishonesty since 2017.
In this latest post from Professor Guy McPherson he does a much better job of exposing the deceit that I could ever have done.
All the assertions Guy makes in the video is backed up by hyperlinks in the post.”
Prof Guy McPherson:
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“In response to the ever-accelerating crisis known as abrupt climate change, the conventional approach is to shift the baseline. Instead of admitting the planet is at or near 2 C above the 1750 baseline, governments and many scientists have determined the baseline is actually 1981-2010, or later. This allows so-called scientists and self-proclaimed political leaders to claim Earth is “only” 1 degree Celsius above the 1750 baseline. Adherence to the Precautionary Principle is clearly unfashionable. Lying to retain privilege is rampant.”
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