ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica reach new highs

Chris Mooney, the Washington Post chimes in again... "‘The extraordinary years have become the normal years’: Scientists survey radical melt in the Arctic"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...scientists-survey-radical-melt-in-the-arctic/

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Arctic Ice 07 19 2016 East Siberian Sea.
It looks like most of the ice in the East Siberian Sea is clearing out or melting. The clouds block a clear view but I an guessing that open water extends from the shore line to the clouds and ice. This is a very sensitive area since heavy concentrations of methane hydrates are on the ocean floor here.
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https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.go...91503.25,-989757.4375,2336112.75,3466690.5625

From September last year: "New Study — Risk of Significant Methane Release From East Siberian Arctic Shelf Still Growing"
https://robertscribbler.com/2015/09...rom-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-still-growing/

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LockH said:
Arctic Ice 07 19 2016 East Siberian Sea.
It looks like most of the ice in the East Siberian Sea is clearing out or melting. The clouds block a clear view but I an guessing that open water extends from the shore line to the clouds and ice. This is a very sensitive area since heavy concentrations of methane hydrates are on the ocean floor here.
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https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.go...91503.25,-989757.4375,2336112.75,3466690.5625

From September last year: "New Study — Risk of Significant Methane Release From East Siberian Arctic Shelf Still Growing"
https://robertscribbler.com/2015/09...rom-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-still-growing/

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scientists don't talk about the methane hydrate situation because it's so bad that people when faced with it either become apathetic or completely deny. The strategy is to focus on what is currently going on and hope that society has the will to change before the methane hydrate destabilization happens.
 
Kinda interesting. ES "Search found 6 matches: +East +Siberian +Sea" (Knuckles posted first in March, 2010) and ES "Search found 7 matches: +clathrate" (MikeB posted in May, 2011 with arkmundi carrying the ball with postings since March, 2014).

Giggle Search of News articles for "East Siberian Sea ice methane" with now maybe 200+ results... Titles including words and phrases like "The methane time bomb", "Methane 'Fart' from the Earth Poses Enormous Global Warming Risk", "Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity", in 2010 "Methane release 'looks stronger'", "Vast Amounts of Frozen Methane Escaping" (into Atmosphere from Leak in Arctic Seafloor), "Extensive Release of Methane Gas from Arctic Shelf", "Methane: The 'Sleeper' Agent of Climate Change"... and those were just the articles from 2010. In 2012 "Siberian Arctic Yedoma permafrost carbon release 10x faster than expected". In 2013 "Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion", "'Economic Time Bomb'", "Arctic sea ice melting faster than expected, UN report finds", "Arctic Ocean Floor Releasing 17 Million Tons of Methane", "The Inevitability of Radical Climate Change", "Looming Danger of Abrupt Climate Change", "The Giant Methane Monster Lurking", "Hundreds Of Methane Plumes Seeping Out Of Seafloor", "Pacific Seafloor Methane is Escaping at Alarming Rates". In 2015 "Abrupt Climate Change is Here", "Methane's Danger Accelerating"... and this year "'Absurdly' high Arctic warmth drives sea ice to record low", "Arctic Sea Ice Could Disappear This Summer", "Arctic Sea Ice Breaks May Record . . . By A Lot"...

Sorry Kids! We F'ed Up! Have a nice life... :oops:
 
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"The ground in Siberia is turning into a trampoline and we should all be worried"
http://www.techinsider.io/methane-bubbles-siberian-permafrost-climate-change-2016-7

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One study found that if permafrost all over the world releases the gases currently bottled up underground, we could double the amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

So not only is the weird behavior of the Siberian tundra probably a result of climate change, but it could also potentially bring about a whole bunch more of it. And that's a scary thought.
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New word for ES... "omnicide". Noun. (uncountable) The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe."


... or human inaction.
 
"Earth on track for hottest year ever as warming speeds up"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2016-set-hottest-yet-co2-rise-wmo-120141131.html

GENEVA (Reuters) - The earth is on track for its hottest year on record and warming at a faster rate than expected, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.

Temperatures recorded mainly in the northern hemisphere in the first six months of the year, coupled with an early and fast Arctic sea ice melt and "new highs" in heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels, point to quickening climate change, it said.

June marked the 14th straight month of record heat, the United Nations agency said. It called for speedy implementation of a global pact reached in Paris last December to limit climate change by shifting from fossil fuels to green energy by 2100.
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" is really quite alarming," David Carlson, director of the WMO’s Climate Research Program" :cry:
 
Everybody keep driving cars and having babies; the old white dude in the sky will get us out of this mess. Jesus is my bail bondsman.
 
Here is some more cheery news.

Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-greenland-ice-melting-rate-sea-levels-rise-a7147846.html
 
jimw1960 said:
Here is some more cheery news.

Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-greenland-ice-melting-rate-sea-levels-rise-a7147846.html
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"environmental research satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 2010." So... just the last few years known "for sure" in this study, seems like.

"a solid 12 percent of all the ice loss came from just a handful of glaciers composing less than 1 percent of the ice sheet’s total area."

Hmmm... And the other... 99%? Implication might be that these islands and shorelines that have been... losing real estate "ain't seen nothing yet".

:cry:

PS. And that much of this "new" water is becoming undrinkable. "Toxic"
 
"5 Deadly Diseases Emerging from Global Warming"
http://www.livescience.com/55632-deadly-diseases-emerge-from-global-warming.html

Melting permafrost may release "zombie pathogens" that have been frozen in ice for centuries, while warming temperatures will allow disease-spreading insects to roam far and wide. Threats now confined to the tropics will likely become problems at higher latitudes.
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Ya gots yer Anthrax... yer Zika... yer "Zombie" diseases... tick-born stuff... and yer cholera.

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"The world will run out of breathable air unless carbon emissions are cut"
http://inhabitat.com/runaway-carbon-emissions-threaten-two-thirds-of-the-earths-oxygen-supply/

Perhaps the most terrifying part of Petrovskii’s findings is the fact that this catastrophe would come with few, if any, warning signs. If global warming continues unchecked, some scientists estimate we could reach this drastic tipping point as soon as 2100, leaving us with only about 84 years before a mass die-off of human and animal life might occur.
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"Melting Arctic ice turns abandoned military base into ticking toxic time bomb"
http://newatlas.com/arctic-cold-war-waste/44760/

If these warming trends continue, a US military base, built into the Greenland Ice Sheet and abandoned since the 1960s, could eventually be freed from the ice – along with hundreds of thousands of liters of waste and pollutants.
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This article is the best explanation I have read to date about why adjustments to surface temperature records are sometimes necessary, how those adjustments are made, and how and why the surface measurements differ from the satellite data. Next time someone tries to tell you that scientists at NOAA or NASA (or any of the other many independent agencies who all use separate approaches but get the same result) are fudging the data, you can refer them to this article.

Thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: The truth about global temperature data
How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it must be done.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/thorough-not-thoroughly-fabricated-the-truth-about-global-temperature-data/
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LockH said:
"Antarctic ice shelf will disappear within the next few years, says NASA"
http://inhabitat.com/antarctic-ice-shelf-will-disappear-within-the-next-few-years-says-nasa/
(... a remnant of the Larsen B Ice Shelf - been around for the last 10,000 years - could be gone by 2020.)
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"A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-biggest-ice-shelves/?utm_term=.e57ba4328248

The rift had grown another 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) since it was last observed in March 2016, and has widened to about 350 meters...
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:cry:
 
"The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing 110,000 Olympic size swimming pools worth of water each year." :cry:

"Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast"
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rming-is-melting-the-greenland-ice-sheet-fast

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The duration of this study is pretty short (4 years). I will be very interested to see if the mass loss continues at the same rate in following years. If the rate of mass loss increases, it may signify a larger future contribution to sea level from Greenland. This would be bad news for vulnerable coastal cities like Miami and certainly something coastal areas should plan for.
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