Millions of tonnes of ice have been keeping the lid on Antarctica’s volcanoes for millennia. Now it’s melting. Fast. And researchers say a bout of eruptions is on the cards.

About 100 dormant volcanoes are known to inhabit the southernmost continent.

Some have peaks that extend above the ice sheet. But most are completely buried.

That ice is melting.

The risk of all that water rolling off Antarctica’s land mass and into the oceans has long been known to pose a threat through rising sea levels.

But it’s also removing weight. And that weight has been pressing down on millions of years’ worth of magma build-up beneath Antarctica’s crust.......

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Arctic sea ice extent: past four weeks
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Repost... winter maximum:

Arctic sea ice extent: past four weeks
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Is there anything to show the extent of the new ice, 1-year-old ice, 2-year old ice, and multiyear surviving ice?...

That makes a great difference to the volume and nature of the ice and the weather and climate effects...

• Configurable animation for years 2000-2025 (notchy to configure)
  
• including graphs of ice volume vs. 2004-2013 average
  

https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php

... Trump's animosity toward wind power has a long history, so it's unlikely that this largely positive report will do much to get the hold on leasing lifted. In reality, however, the long-term uncertainty about offshore wind in the US will probably block new developments until the end of Trump's time in office...

... abruptly stops tracking costs of the most devastating storms...

Climate change is making high-altitude winds much more volatile...

... invisible from the cockpit and can surprise pilots and damage aircraft...

Without renewables, it's nearly impossible to meet growing power demand...

... the coastal population and value of property in harm’s way are growing. As five former directors of the National Weather Service wrote in an open letter, cutting funding and staff from NOAA’s work that is improving forecasting and warnings ultimately threatens to leave more lives at risk.

Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters
wrote:

... abruptly stops tracking costs of the most devastating storms...

The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies
for Climate Fraud and Damages

... The evidence could hardly be clearer: For
decades these companies possessed detailed and accurate knowledge about the dangers their
products pose to the global climate and understood that climate action would threaten their
business models. Yet they planned, funded, and continue to engage in a campaign to profit
from the planet’s destruction by deceiving the public and blocking climate action...

... Executive Summary

What Fossil Fuel Companies Knew About Climate Change—and When They Knew It

What Fossil Fuel Companies Did Instead of Addressing Climate Change ...

Deny this?

Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles

[quote]#4 Clearing trees for solar panels negates any climate change benefits An average acre of solar panels in the United States reduced approximately 204–231 times more carbon dioxide per year than an acre of forest. https://sks.to/solartrees

#9 Reliance on solar will make the United States dependent on China and other countries Although the United States still imports a majority of the solar panels it installs, domestic solar manufacturing is on the rise and likely to grow further as manufacturers open factories in the U.S. https://sks.to/solarchina

#11 Solar energy is more expensive than fossil fuels and completely dependent on subsidies Unsubsidized solar energy is now generally cheaper than fossil fuels and according to the International Energy Agency, solar PV is “the cheapest source of new electricity generation in most parts of the world." https://sks.to/solarprice

• unrealiable; with frequent brownouts (planned outages due to generation shortages); different reliability levels dependent on location
  
• expensive
  
• ...and dirty (CO2).
  

I have to write something for the monthly paycheck I get from the nuclear lobby. ;-)

Deny this?

Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles

#4 Clearing trees for solar panels negates any climate change benefits An average acre of solar panels in the United States reduced approximately 204–231 times more carbon dioxide per year than an acre of forest. https://sks.to/solartrees

Why are there still forests in the U.S. then? Don't they know we have to save the climate? Act now!

I have to write something for the monthly paycheck I get from the nuclear lobby. ;-)

Mmmm... I'm surprised at the deforestation quote... Considering a singular isolated tree, perhaps. Considering a forest, there's a lot more than just the trees gobbling up carbon...

And so far, our experience of nuclear fission heat generation for steam powered electricity generation is that the up front capital costs and very long build time and the extremely costly decommissioning makes nuclear power far too slow to start and far too costly overall. Renewables will have long ago already taken over by the time any meaningful addition of nuclear fission comes onstream.