ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica reach new highs

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They're saying a warm blob is keeping the rain out of southern California.
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A warm methane-enhanced blob IMHO, which eventually dissipates throughout the atmosphere and is carried away by prevailing winds. Hopefully in time for some end of season precipitation. :)
 
"The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone"
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...yz5MHZkH8aD0HIDJrcYJ/story.html?event=event25
Thursday, while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization.
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"Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are showing a startling increase"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...xide-levels-are-showing-a-startling-increase/
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Tans said the reason is very clear: Rates of fossil fuel burning remain at historically high levels, releasing 10 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. “The emissions are at a record high, therefore the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 is also at a record high,” he said.
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Tans said the reason is very clear: Rates of fossil fuel burning remain at historically high levels, releasing 10 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. “The emissions are at a record high, therefore the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 is also at a record high,” he said.
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Not sure why the article quotes a rate of 10 billion metric tons annually. The true number is more like 30 billion.
 
LockH said:
"Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are showing a startling increase"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...xide-levels-are-showing-a-startling-increase/
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Tans said the reason is very clear: Rates of fossil fuel burning remain at historically high levels, releasing 10 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. “The emissions are at a record high, therefore the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 is also at a record high,” he said.
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Could it be coming from the Mauna Loa Volcano? Maybe it's because an eruption is brewing.
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/vol...earth-s-largest-active-volcano-still-stirring
 
"Earth's 'delicate balance' has shifted: Emissions now far outweigh the amount of CO2 the planet can absorb, study finds"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...r-outweigh-CO2-planet-absorb-study-finds.html

(And another new word for ES Bible "biogenic" as in "biogenic fluxes"... only mentioned here once before - by LFP back in 2009.)
The scientists looked at the 'biogenic fluxes' of the three main greenhouse gases over the last three decades, and subtracted out emissions that existed in pre-industrial times.

These biogenic sources include gas emitted by plants, animals, and microbes, such as methane produced by wetlands, and nitrous oxide released by soil.

But the amounts of these gases have been changed by human activity, plus new sources created by sewage, fertilisers, and cattle.

The scientists added up all the biogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, then subtracted those that occurred naturally.

The study did not include gas emissions from fossil fuel burning or natural gas production.

The surprise finding in the report is that human impact on biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions far outweighs the impact on the uptake of carbon dioxide.

In other words, they say this so-called terrestrial biosphere is now contributing to climate change rather than mitigating climate change - and it's all because of human action.
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"13 Million in US Could Become Climate Refugees: Top Counties Affected"
http://www.livescience.com/54042-cl...l-retreat.html?cmpid=NL_OAP_weekly_2016-03-15

More than 13 million Americans could become climate refugees by 2100 if the worst sea-level rise comes to pass, new research suggests.

Rising seas caused by climate change could permanently flood hundreds of U.S. counties, according to the study. The hardest-hit county will be Miami-Dade, Florida, where 2 million people could be forced to relocate. In fact, Florida is home to about half of these potential U.S. climate refugees.

In the NOAA's worst-case scenario, the oceans will rise about 6 feet (1.8 meters), on average, by 2100. These NOAA estimates account for permanent coastal flooding but not other potential hazards of climate change, such as increased hurricane numbers and intensity or storm surges.
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... and the "good news":
In a better scenario, with only 3 feet (0.9 m) of sea-level rise, only 4.2 million people would be forced to move, the study found.
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"February Blows Away Global Heat Record"
http://www.livescience.com/54041-fe...at-record.html?cmpid=NL_OAP_weekly_2016-03-15
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Last month was far and away the hottest February on record for the planet, by a margin that has surprised even the climate scientists who closely monitor global temperature data. It was also the most anomalously warm month Earth has seen in 135 years of NASA record keeping, continuing an astonishing recent streak that could see 2016 set a new record for hottest year.
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"What we’re doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-parallel-in-66-million-years-scientists-say/

If you dig deep enough into the Earth’s climate change archives, you hear about the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. And then you get scared.
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... and
We’re putting carbon into the atmosphere at an even faster rate than happened back then.
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... and
And not only have we only begun to see the changes that will result from current warming, but there may be other changes that lack any ancient parallel, because of the current rate of change.
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:(
 
Yet more doom and gloom... "Climate changing at 'unprecedented' rate: UN"
http://news.yahoo.com/climate-changing-unprecedented-rate-un-143617921.html

"...warned climate change was advancing at an "unprecedented" rate."

"Temperatures in the first two months of 2016 soared to new highs, following a year that broke "all previous records by a wide margin," ""a slap in the face.""

- 'Relentless trend upwards' -

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Don't worry, we will all be killed off by drug-resistant bacteria before the climate changes get too bad. So, in the meantime, drill baby drill, and enjoy those low oil prices.
 
"The Arctic is thawing much faster than expected, scientists warn"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-much-faster-than-expected-scientists-warn/

Amid blowout warm temperatures in the Arctic this year, two new studies have amplified concerns about one of the wild cards of a warming planet — how quickly warming Arctic soils could become major contributors of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, causing still greater warming.

In a major international study published last week in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers from regions ranging from Alaska to Russia report that permafrost is thawing faster than expected — even in some of the very coldest areas.
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“Landscape-wide ice-wedge degradation was observed at ten out of eleven sites,” the paper reported.

“At the places where we have sufficient amounts of data we are seeing this process happen in less than a decade and even after one warm summer,” says Anna Liljedahl, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
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"A really bad winter for Arctic sea ice just got even worse"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-its-third-record-this-year-for-low-sea-ice/

In part:
on Monday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA announced that a few days ago, on March 24, Arctic sea ice “likely” hit its maximum extent for the year of 2016 – a winter peak from which the ice will now decline for months until it hits a low at the end of summer, usually in September. And it was the lowest maximum extent on record, at 14.52 million square kilometers, or 5.607 million square miles.
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... and the good news for ebike (and conversion kits and bits) sellers just keeps rolling in. Well, flooding in, seems like.
"The Clean-Energy Deadline Is Sooner Than We Think" written in US Bloomberg no less:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-29/the-clean-energy-deadline-is-sooner-than-we-think

A new study by researchers from Oxford University's Institute for New Economic Thinking offers an answer. In short, we have only a year or so to stop investing in new fossil-fuel power stations. After that, the expected emissions from those plants over their economic lifetime will commit us -- barring other exceptional changes -- to shoot past the 2 degree limit. This means we face crucial choices right now.
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Not sure how much this applies to climate, but that weather tho. . . a great spring so far on east coast, highs in the 60's & 70's. In fact two days ago it was 78F and sunny. But that makes it rather ridiculous when midday today it's sunny but 34F and with windchill near 25F :shock:

Wow it's cold, like 300% cold (from 78F). But the historical average is about 57F, so we're just seeing a non-record 20deg swing (w/o windchill), in both directions and in 60- 72hrs.

But the wind she is a blowin, probably from some place up north?
I wonder that if the wind is making it down here, does that mean it's less cold up there?
Or if cold is just absense of heat, it doesn't necessarily get used up by 'spreading around' like heat does . . . Hmmm.
 
"Climate Change Is Moving the North Pole"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160408-climate-change-shifts-earth-poles-water-loss/
Adhikari and his colleague and co-author Erik Ivins think the rotational pole is shifting toward Europe because there has been a massive loss of water from lakes and aquifers in Eurasia, around the Caspian Sea, and in India. Warmer temperatures overall have led to more evaporation and less precipitation in many areas, and booming human populations have been sucking up groundwater from reservoirs and wells (watch Saudi Arabia get drained dry).
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:(
 
Climate change, Hollywood-style.
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Turns out increased CO2 is not good for food production: It reduces protein content while increasing carbohydrate content. It also reduces moisture uptake by the plant, which reduces mineral content. The result is a high-calorie but nutritionally-poor food.
 
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Yeah, but how much?
With no definition isn't that like saying humans get bad results from 'increased' oxygen or h2o?
Or bread, milk, honey? (or sexy time :oops: :roll: )

I'm yet to check the "co2 2 concrete" out, but it sounds cool and very interesting scientifically.
I however would say plants should be our first go-to for any balance seeking in co2 emissions whether it's from a bunch of ice's or a bunch of humans . . . or both. Never fear tho, I bet earth can take care of whatever we dish out, it's just whether we prove to be inane in our function with care in mind, or not.

Ps, thanks for 'pancake bunny' lol. Just was pondering thermodynamics, obviously.
 
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