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James Hansen on How We Are Failing to Deal With Climate Change

First posted in June 2018. Four and a half years later and we’re still still travelling down the highway to hell at full speed.

In this Guardian article James Hansen discusses the failures of the last thirty years to deal with climate change and what needs to be done to rectify these failures.

James Hansen on Climate Change

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Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

First posted in June 2018 and since then the situation has got far worse and will continue to do so while we increasingly burn fossil fuels.

Changes to our environment appear to be accelerating and their effects will have far ranging consequences. With species not being able to move or just not move quickly enough the changes will probably also accelerate species extinction.

Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years

For an excellent source of information on what’s happening to ice be sure to look at Zach Labe’s website, https://zacklabe.com/, or find him on Twitter.

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Far away where the eye doesn’t see

The major economies are all trying to get a piece of Greenland due to its stash of rich mineral resources especially now that the melting ice is making them easier to get to. The fact that those major economies and their activities are a large part of the cause for the melting ice doesn’t seem to connect with people. Business as usual seems to be the mantra of the day.

Only today the US has announced an aid package for Greenland, US aid for Greenland

Eric Rignot is a well known glaciologist, a subject so specialist that WordPress does not recognise the word and thinks that it is misspelled. Eric’s specialist area of study is Greenland glaciers that could raise sea levels by half a metre. Last year he made a trip in a fairly small boat to a rapidly retreating glacier on the west coast of Greenland called the Humboldt Glacier. One of his daughters, a 24 year old film maker, went along to with him to record the trip. Our economic activity has meant over consumption by some and shortages for others and is incredibly wasteful and has given us recently 417ppm CO2. Business as usual is no longer an option. To reconcile what the major economies of the world are trying to do in Greenland and what Eric’s work is showing is to add 2 + 2 and come up with an answer of 4. It’s time for all of us to change.

Eric Rignot and the Humboldt Glacier

Thwaites glacier – never heard of it

The Thwaites glacier is a very important piece of ice far away in Antarctica so most people will not have come across it in their daily lives. So we all wake up and today looks like yesterday but at one of the far ends of the world the ice is beginning to melt. On its own the Thwaites glacier contains enough water to raise sea levels by 65cm. It doesn’t sound huge because when we look at a beach or a coastline what do we see? However its collapse and subsequent melting will have significance for 10s if not 100s of millions of people in the future living on the coasts of the world. Since our exodus from Africa the human race has become very attached to living by the sea and we always thought that the shoreline was at a constant height apart from the tides but we have changed all that through our burning of fossil fuels. The Thwaites glacier is one of the major glaciers holding the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet in place so it’s not just its melting and collapse that is important. Currently the Thwaites glacier is being attacked underneath by warm circumpolar deep water upwelling. With the majority of the heat being trapped by the higher levels of greenhouse gases entering the oceans the warm warmer water is affecting the integrity of the ice. Only relatively recently have we had the technology to study what is going on. This article describes the latest research.

First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’

James Hansen on How We Are Failing to Deal With Climate Change

In this Guardian article James Hansen discusses the failures of the last thirty years to deal with climate change and what needs to be done to rectify these failures.

James Hansen on Climate Change