ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica reach new highs

[LockH]

"Arctic ice melt 'already affecting weather patterns where you live right now'":
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ere-you-live-right-now?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

(Pic caption

The area covered by Arctic sea ice at least four years old has decreased from 718,000 sq miles in September 1984 to 42,000 sq miles in September 2016. Older ice tends to be less vulnerable to melting. The age of the ice is indicated by shades ranging from blue-gray for the youngest ice to white for the oldest. Credits: Nasa

 

[LockH]

"The Arctic is showing stunning winter warmth, and these scientists think they know why":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...postshare=5161482521287226&tid=ss_tw#comments

It is all looking rather consistent with an outlook that has been dubbed “Warm Arctic, Cold Continents” — a notion that remains scientifically contentious but, if accurate, is deeply consequential for how climate change could unfold in the Northern Hemisphere winter.

 

[LockH]

"Major flooding in UK now likely every year, warns lead climate adviser":
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-adviser-storm-desmond?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Includes:

Boxing Day in 2015 saw severe floods sweep Lancashire and Yorkshire, just weeks after Storm Desmond swamped Cumbria and parts of Scotland and Wales. The flooding, which caused billions of pounds of damage, led to the government publishing a review in September which anticipates 20-30% more extreme rainfall than before.

But Prof John Krebs, who leads the work on adapting to global warming for the government’s official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), told the Guardian: “We are still a long way from where we need to be, in that there is still not a coherent long-term view.”

... and lead picture for this article:

... captioned:

The flooded high street in Cockermouth in the Lake District, days after Storm Desmond on 6 December 2015. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

 

[LockH]

"NOAA challenged the global warming ‘pause.’ Now new research says the agency was right.":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-the-agency-was-right/?utm_term=.43ea134a1a64

 

[Punx0r]

I just came here to post the same thing

 

[LockH]

I just came here to post the same thing

Hehe... Hi England. Canadian here that just applied for a job in Manchester:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=84353&start=25#p1253669

Currently w/"too much time on my hands", daily scanning news re ebikes in the world news and climate change due partly to burning fossil remains seems to dovetail nicely with the rise in use of the Bettery-Electric powered bicycle. (It was "global climate change" that prompted German von Drais to invent his two wheeled "running machine" in the first place!)

Edit: "... the rise in use of the Bettery-Electric powered bicycle"... To climate, can add the growing populations in crowded urban spaces (where a large, heavy, "too fast" vehicle full of empty seats and empty cargo space may no longer be the "way to go"). :wink:

 

[LockH]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eak-could-be-imminent/?utm_term=.b2fb48505070

"The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A dramatic break could be imminent."

If this happens, it could accelerate a further breakup of the ice shelf, essentially removing a massive cork of ice that keeps some of Antarctica’s glaciers from flowing into the ocean. The long term result, scientists project, could be to noticeably raise global sea levels by 10 centimeters, or almost four inches.

 

[LockH]

Study Documents Tree Species' Decline Due to Climate Warming:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wi...-species-decline-due-climate-warming-44601921

(Begins

A type of tree that thrives in soggy soil from Alaska to Northern California and is valued for its commercial and cultural uses could become a noticeable casualty of climate warming over the next 50 years, an independent study has concluded.

Yellow cedar, named for its distinctive yellow wood, already is under consideration for federal listing as a threatened or endangered species.

 

[LockH]

Thousands of British holidays face ruin as Alps declares drought zone:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...-ruin-as-alps-declares-drought-zone-tcvslfxdr

Dozens of the most popular ski resorts in France face having to turn off their snow cannons because of an “unprecedented” drought that threatens to ruin tens of thousands of winter holidays.

They will be switched off at more than 50 resorts in the Haute-Savoie département if there is no snow by the weekend. Last month was the driest December in Haute-Savoie for 135 years, with just 0.2mm of rain falling in Annecy. Many resorts recorded their 50th day without natural snowfall last week.

 

[LockH]

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...-north-atlantic-has-scientists-worried/57734/

Friday, September 25, 2015, 8:18 PM - There's a blob of cold water in the North Atlantic Ocean, following a summer of abnormally warm temperatures -- and that has scientists concerned.

While the world appears to be heating up, an area south of Greenland and Iceland has been seeing the coldest temperatures in recorded history, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Researchers say there's no mistake in the data. The chillier-than-usual area is densely-populated with buoys and along a well-observed shipping line.

There's no definitive answer as to why the blob is there, but scientists think it has to do with the slowing of circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.

UPDATE:
Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601666.full

Abstract

Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) are moderate in most climate model projections under increasing greenhouse gas forcing. This intermodel consensus may be an artifact of common model biases that favor a stable AMOC. Observationally based freshwater budget analyses suggest that the AMOC is in an unstable regime susceptible for large changes in response to perturbations. By correcting the model biases, we show that the AMOC collapses 300 years after the atmospheric CO2 concentration is abruptly doubled from the 1990 level. Compared to an uncorrected model, the AMOC collapse brings about large, markedly different climate responses: a prominent cooling over the northern North Atlantic and neighboring areas, sea ice increases over the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian seas and to the south of Greenland, and a significant southward rain-belt migration over the tropical Atlantic. Our results highlight the need to develop dynamical metrics to constrain models and the importance of reducing model biases in long-term climate projection.

 

[LockH]

It's Official: 2016 Was Second Hottest Year for US:
http://www.livescience.com/57430-2016-was-second-hottest-year.html

...in more than 120 years of record keeping, government scientists announced on Monday, marking 20 above-average years in a row. Every state had a temperature ranking at least in the top seven, with two, Georgia and Alaska, recording their hottest year.

The announcement comes a week before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which released the U.S. data, and NASA are expected to announce that 2016 set the record for the hottest year globally. Both the global record and the U.S. near-record are largely attributable to greenhouse gas-driven warming of the planet.

 

[jimw1960]

It's Official: 2016 Was Second Hottest Year for US:
http://www.livescience.com/57430-2016-was-second-hottest-year.html

And that's just the USA. Globally it was the hottest on record, breaking the consecutive records of the previous 2 years by a large margin. Pretty scary considering that the El Nino that everyone blamed the 2015 record on had dissipated in early 2016.

 

[LockH]

A new study just blew a hole in one of the strongest arguments against global warming:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/study-just-blew-hole-one-204337230.html

Ends:

They discovered that oceans have been warming about 70% more per decade for the last 19 years than previously thought.

 

[LockH]

Beijing sets 2017 air pollution goal at more than double WHO's acceptable standard:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijing-sets-2017-air-pollution-goal-more-double-055149827.html

Ends:

But smog has engulfed Beijing and large swathes of the north and center of the country for days at a time in recent weeks, disrupting flights, port operations and schools.

Environmental authorities on Saturday said bad air would strike provinces around Beijing in the coming days, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Failing the standards? No problem... just change the standard.

 

[LockH]

2016 hottest year ever recorded – and scientists say human activity to blame
("Final data confirms record-breaking temperatures for third year in a row
Earth has not been this warm for 115,000 years")

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ed-and-scientists-say-human-activity-to-blame

Starts:

2016 was the hottest year on record, setting a new high for the third year in a row, with scientists firmly putting the blame on human activities that drive climate change.

The final data for 2016 was released on Wednesday by the three key agencies – the UK Met Office and Nasa and Noaa in the US – and showed 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been this century.

Direct temperature measurements stretch back to 1880, but scientific research indicates the world was last this warm about 115,000 years ago and that the planet has not experienced such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 4m years.

Ends:

Global carbon emissions have barely grown in the last three years, after decades of strong growth, according to an analysis published in November. The main reason is China burning less coal, but CO2 is still being emitted into the atmosphere at record levels. “CO2 will continue to rise and cause the planet to warm until emissions are cut down to near zero,” said Prof Corinne Le Quéré at the University of East Anglia.

 

[LockH]

Writing about climate change: my professional detachment has finally turned to panic
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...sional-detachment-has-finally-turned-to-panic

Indeed, that ability for humans to not react emotionally to climate change is undoubtedly one of the things that is making this collective form of species-level suicide possible.

[Sigh]

 

[LockH]

Earth’s last major warm period was as hot as today
("At peak of previous interglacial interval, sea levels were 6 to 9 meters higher"):
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth’s-last-major-warm-period-was-hot-today

Starts:

The last time Earth’s thermostat was cranked as high as it is today, sea levels were high enough to completely drown New Orleans (had it existed at the time), new research suggests.

Ocean surface temperatures around 125,000 years ago were comparable to those today...

 

[LockH]

Hehe... tap about yer "global climate change"... in current news:

Asteroids Are Flying Past Earth More Often Than Usual:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asteroids-flying-past-earth-more-000519228.html

Concludes:

The Chicxulub crater off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is believed to have been caused by an asteroid 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

 

[Warren]

And just like climate change, it is a probabilistic certainty that we will be hit by a lethal asteroid. We actually may do something to protect ourselves from asteroids, since it requires more of the same. Protecting ourselves from climate change requires doing something entirely different.

 

[nutnspecial]

requires doing something entirely different

Like? And actually, wth is the general concensus on asteroid protection while we're at it?

What goes up, must come down? I wonder how likely it is we'll instead soon head into a solar minimum the likes of which humans haven't seen in centuries?

[youtube]_qxdwP0tHT8[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxdwP0tHT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jubqRarMFoM
Maybe monsanto and jpl will save the day, you know, like they've been doing so far.

 

[nutnspecial]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fxyD0hHW0
Crack in antarctic. Was hoping for more info than a picture and a drawing of something pretty damn cool and new?


////Mehhhh, nevermind. A quick search, and it looks the same, going back 5 years! Not that much new/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antarctica+crack

 

[LockH]

Scientists have just detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans linked to a warming climate:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/

A large research synthesis, published in one of the world’s most influential scientific journals, has detected a decline in the amount of dissolved oxygen in oceans around the world — a long-predicted result of climate change that could have severe consequences for marine organisms if it continues.

 

[LockH]

Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-antarctica-temperatures-idUSKBN1684I7

Starts:

An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, "up north" (southern Ontario, Canada) the high temp for the day (near the "dead" of winter) was +14C... (about 57 Fahrenheit)

 

[jimw1960]

I found this very good summary from NASA of all the evidence to show that global warming is happening and we are the ones who are causing it.

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

 

[Hillhater]

I was going to study that paper, but the very first graphic and paragraphs convinced me of its obvious bias ..so a decided no to wast an hour or so of my life !..

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.

A conveniently brief time scale to present a false statement of the actual history of CO2 levels on our planet.
NASA obviously have an agenda ( likely focused on future funding i suspect) ..and seem happy to lend their name to anything which may assist that end game .
Sure , the climate is changing, warming currently, but this kind of bullshit does nothing to enhance the reputation of real science.