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moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Okay. I had this wild idea that the melt was happening because of particulate carbon, very black, landing on the snow and melting it. That black particulate carbon being released at the beginning of the industrial era when we didn't have oil and natural gas to burn but had to use coal and wood. Look back at the black smog and soot of London for the melting. That as well. The glaciers on our planet are getting darker revealing all the soot from the past centuries... The Himalaya glaciers are now melting faster and faster. About 700 million people are dependent of fresh water from them... |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
The commuter to the summer resort in Tuscany should pay more to fly than the one who flies once a year. The argument is increasingly heard in the British climate debate, which in many ways is more intense and aggressive than in Sweden. The national air tax introduced in Sweden on April 1, Britain has had since 1994. There is a debate which is the next step. The New Economics Foundation think tank and the "A Free ride" environmental organization are driving the proposal for a progressive flight tax. http://neweconomics.org/2015/06/a-fairer-way-to-fly/ One sign that the individual got into focus is that several of the world's leading climate scientists have begun to break down the huge global, and thus abstract, emission figures of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to the individual level. At the Max Planck Institute in Germany, researchers have estimated that a person flying between New York and London causes three square meters of ice melt in the Arctic. When the model was published in the reputed journal Science, one of the researchers Dirk Notz, who wrote the report together with Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado, said that "this makes it intuitively possible to understand how we all contribute to global warming, It is possible to translate how individual actions contribute to the loss of sea ice. " |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Climate update : Again this year in the North and South poles the Sea Ice Extend is at record lows . It's now been 10 years since the First major reduction of Sea Ice in the North pole where in that year there was a 1/3 rd reduction in Sea Ice We are now 50% lower in the amount off Sea ice than the First event and Now for the last 2 years we are seeing the same thing as the north pole but only it happening at the South pole There has been some good news with the fact that we have slowed down the rate of man made Co2 The increase of solar and wind around the world in generating power is having a effect but we must speed this up Co2 level is 410 with approx 3 months til the peak in June |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Two items; The fast-melting Arctic is already messing with the ocean’s circulation, scientists say This affects the warm water from the Gulf of Mexico that flows up the US east coast and across the Atlantic towards the British Isles. Rapid Arctic warming and melting ice are increasing the frequency of blizzards in the Northeast, study finds That's the NE of the US. The study also shows that in cities in the West, such as Salt Lake City and Seattle, big snowstorms have become less frequent. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
The fast-melting Arctic is already messing with the ocean’s circulation, scientists sayNot only the British Isles. The Nordic countries as well. It's a bit of an irony, but when the globe gets warmer it will getting colder here. At very least in the beginning of the Global Warming that we are facing right now, |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Or perhaps much worse. Not perhaps much worse. We will have Siberian winters. Much colder than happened this winter when Siberian cold air came to us and created chaos in all transportations. A foreboding of the future? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Microplastics found in more than 90% of bottled water, study says. A new analysis of some of the world’s most popular bottled water brands says more than 90% contain tiny pieces of plastic.Cheers (or not). |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Our unloved former far right prime minister and 30 other far right wing Liberals want to rebel against our current right wing P.M. to build new coal fired power stations across the country. :-( I wonder if we can get Tony Abbott deported back where he came from? |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Since your country won't take Murdoch back why do you think the Brits would take Abbott back? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
An alarming 10 percent of Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are now in retreat, scientists find Antarctica’s ocean-front glaciers are retreating, according a new satellite survey that raises additional concerns about the massive continent’s potential contribution to rising sea levels. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Scott Pruitt has four different EPA email addresses. Lawmakers want to know why. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has used four separate agency email addresses since taking office, according to Senate Democrats and an EPA official, prompting concerns among agency lawyers that the EPA has not disclosed all the documents it would normally release to the public under federal records requests. Pruitt isn’t the first EPA chief to faced questions over email use. Pruitt encountered criticism over allegedly using a private email address in his previous job as Oklahoma attorney general. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Gulf Stream current now at weakest level in 1,600 years. And some fool idiots want to build more coal fired power stations. :-( |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Hmm... Our Nordic countries including Britain would have Siberian climate if it weren't for the Gulf Stream. But should we worry? Not really. In reality, it's not even certain that it will be colder in our part of the world if the circulatory system completely stops. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Gulf Stream current now at weakest level in 1,600 years. Maybe the planet's reaction to warming, make Europe cold and refreeze the polar ice cap? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Mankind has permanently screwed up coral reefs. If the ocean’s coral reefs have one arch enemy, it’s definitely humans. We’ve altered the Earth’s climate enough that ocean warming is killing off huge sections of reef and impacting the ocean ecosystem as a result and on top of that we can’t manage to keep our plastic trash from suffocating what’s left. Now, scientists studying the devastation of the largest coral reef system on the planet are delivering the worst possible news: we’ve permanently messed things up. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
How much "in-yer-face" heavy impact can the fossils and fossils followers continue to corruptly deny?... Melting Arctic sends a message - climate change is here in a big way Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and the surface absorbs more of the sun's energy instead of reflecting it back into space. This makes it even warmer, which causes more melting, and so on. This expectation has become a reality that I describe in my new book "Brave New Arctic." It's a visually compelling story: The effects of warming are evident in shrinking ice caps and glaciers and in Alaskan roads buckling as permafrost beneath them thaws. But for many people the Arctic seems like a faraway place, and stories of what is happening there seem irrelevant to their lives. It can also be hard to accept that the globe is warming up while you are shoveling out from the latest snowstorm. Since I have spent more than 35 years studying snow, ice and cold places,.. ... When I first started working in the Arctic, scientists understood it as a region defined by its snow and ice, with a varying but generally constant climate. In the 1990s, we realized that it was changing, but it took us years to figure out why. Now scientists are trying to understand what the Arctic's ongoing transformation means for the rest of the planet, and whether the Arctic of old will ever be seen again. ... ... for those of us who study the Arctic, it is clear that a radical transformation is underway. My two ice caps are just a small part of that story. Indeed, the question is no longer whether the Arctic is warming, but how drastically it will change – and what those changes mean for the planet. Recent Russian Arctic glacier loss doubles from the previous 60 years ... explained a scientific dictum that states glacier change should happen slowly in the Arctic because temperatures are low, the ice is very cold and it melts more slowly than ice elsewhere. "We are finding out that the ice is changing more rapidly than we previously thought," said Zheng. "The temperature is changing in the Arctic faster than anywhere else in the world."... And yet the dirty old fossils are now more expensive and as polluting as ever!... How do we push harder, faster, for Power Change instead of Human Forced Climate Change?!! All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well the imbecile has done it again. :-( Trump cancels NASA’s greenhouse gas monitoring system after scrapping clean air regulation. His stupidity knows no bounds. :-O |
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