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Message 1918605 - Posted: 13 Feb 2018, 1:26:49 UTC - in response to Message 1918587.  

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...
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Message 1919981 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 23:14:57 UTC

A cleaner enviroment or storing up problems?

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Message 1921531 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 8:29:09 UTC

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Message 1921544 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 12:03:10 UTC
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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. "
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Message 1924140 - Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 8:19:11 UTC

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
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Message 1924641 - Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 23:25:52 UTC

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.
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Message 1924648 - Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 0:22:31 UTC - in response to Message 1924641.  
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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.
Not 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,
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Message 1924660 - Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 1:01:15 UTC - in response to Message 1924657.  

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?
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Message 1924698 - Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 8:48:04 UTC
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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.

Analysis of 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries across 11 different brands found an average of 325 plastic particles for every litre of water being sold.

Concentrations were as high as 10,000 plastic pieces for every litre of water. Of the 259 bottles tested, only 17 were free of plastics, according to the study.

Scientists based at the State University of New York in Fredonia were commissioned by journalism project Orb Media to analyse the bottled water.

The scientists wrote they had “found roughly twice as many plastic particles within bottled water” compared with their previous study of tap water, reported by the Guardian.
Cheers (or not).
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Message 1927846 - Posted: 2 Apr 2018, 22:43:12 UTC

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Message 1927863 - Posted: 3 Apr 2018, 0:47:27 UTC - in response to Message 1927846.  

Since your country won't take Murdoch back why do you think the Brits would take Abbott back?
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Message 1927885 - Posted: 3 Apr 2018, 4:01:02 UTC

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.

Antarctica, which contains enough ice to raise the oceans by about 200 feet, is a continent of ice that flows outward to the ocean at numerous large glaciers. These mostly submerged glaciers rest deep on the seafloor at a point called the “grounding line,” where ocean, ice and bedrock meet.

But at 10.7 percent of these glaciers, the ice masses are moving at a significant speed back toward the center of the continent as they melt from below, often because of the incursion of warm ocean water, which causes the grounding line to retreat. Only about 1.9 percent of glaciers were growing at a significant speed, suggesting a net retreat.

And the more glaciers are retreating, the more one worries about sea-level rise. Retreating grounding lines can expose more ice to the ocean, allowing it to flow outward more rapidly.
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Message 1928336 - Posted: 6 Apr 2018, 15:43:36 UTC

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Message 1929628 - Posted: 12 Apr 2018, 19:22:00 UTC

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.

Two Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Tom Carper (Del.) — sent a letter Tuesday to the EPA’s inspector general asking the office to probe the matter.

“We write to share our deep concern over Administrator Pruitt’s reported use of multiple email accounts,” they wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post. “It is imperative that there be an investigation into whether the agency has properly searched these email addresses for responsive documents in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.”

Pruitt’s four email addresses include one in the conventional agency format, pruitt.scott@epa.gov, as well as three others: esp7@epa.gov, adm14pruitt@epa.gov and sooners7@epa.gov, an apparent reference to the University of Oklahoma, whose football team Pruitt follows closely.


Pruitt isn’t the first EPA chief to faced questions over email use.

During President Barack Obama’s first term, then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson came under fire for maintaining a separate agency email under the alias “Richard Windsor” — a name that derived from Jackson’s family dog when she lived in East Windsor Township, N.J.


Pruitt encountered criticism over allegedly using a private email address in his previous job as Oklahoma attorney general.

During his confirmation hearing early last year, Pruitt said he never used a personal email account for official business as Oklahoma state attorney general. Asked whether he had ever used a private email account while on the job, Pruitt told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: “I use only my official OAG [office of the attorney general] email address and government-issued phone to conduct official business.”

But several of Pruitt’s official emails, released soon after as part of an open records lawsuit in Oklahoma, were copied to his personal email — an Apple account that was partially blacked out before being released.

The emails copied to Pruitt’s personal account included ones from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate-backed group that focuses on state legislatures; the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which has substantial interests in EPA issues; and members of Pruitt’s staff.
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Message 1929871 - Posted: 14 Apr 2018, 4:49:27 UTC

Gulf Stream current now at weakest level in 1,600 years.

And some fool idiots want to build more coal fired power stations. :-(
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Message 1929890 - Posted: 14 Apr 2018, 9:37:28 UTC - in response to Message 1929871.  

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.
"It would probably not be colder than today. Global warming tends to take over, says Johan Nilsson, a professor of oceanography at Stockholm University.
He thinks Levke Caesar's study is interesting, but believes it's too early to say if changes you see really have to do with climate change.
"Ocean currents are a complex system with many slow and customized variations," says Johan Nilsson.
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Message 1929921 - Posted: 14 Apr 2018, 14:03:00 UTC - in response to Message 1929871.  

Gulf Stream current now at weakest level in 1,600 years.

And some fool idiots want to build more coal fired power stations. :-(

Maybe the planet's reaction to warming, make Europe cold and refreeze the polar ice cap?
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Message 1930991 - Posted: 20 Apr 2018, 5:50:14 UTC

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.
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Message 1932104 - Posted: 26 Apr 2018, 20:16:26 UTC
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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,
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Message 1935040 - Posted: 11 May 2018, 9:24:14 UTC
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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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