The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!
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angelburst29
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Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early
General view of a landscape of partially thawed Arctic permafrost near Mould Bay, Canada, in this handout photo released June 18, 2019. The image was captured in 2016 by researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks who were amazed to find the permafrost thawing 70 years faster than models predicted. Louise Farquharson/Handout via REUTERS
A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they were astounded by how quickly a succession of unusually hot summers had destabilized the upper layers of giant subterranean ice blocks that had been frozen solid for millennia.
“What we saw was amazing,” Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the university, told Reuters by telephone. “It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years.”
With governments meeting in Bonn this week to try to ratchet up ambitions in United Nations climate negotiations, the team’s findings, published on June 10 in Geophysical Research Letters, offered a further sign of a growing climate emergency.
Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early
General view of a landscape of partially thawed Arctic permafrost near Mould Bay, Canada, in this handout photo released June 18, 2019. The image was captured in 2016 by researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks who were amazed to find the permafrost thawing 70 years faster than models predicted. Louise Farquharson/Handout via REUTERS
A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they were astounded by how quickly a succession of unusually hot summers had destabilized the upper layers of giant subterranean ice blocks that had been frozen solid for millennia.
“What we saw was amazing,” Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the university, told Reuters by telephone. “It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years.”
With governments meeting in Bonn this week to try to ratchet up ambitions in United Nations climate negotiations, the team’s findings, published on June 10 in Geophysical Research Letters, offered a further sign of a growing climate emergency.
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NASIRIYAH, IRAQ - As one of the hottest countries in the world, with around half of its terrain covered in desert, Iraq is no stranger to stiflingly hot summers.
Jun 16, 2019 - Heat wave hits Iraq, one of hottest countries in the world - and sparks begin to fly
Heatwave hits Iraq, one of hottest countries in the world - and sparks begin to fly
An Iraqi man uses a curbside shower to cool off during a heatwave in the capital Baghdad, on June 14, 2019.PHOTO: AFP
Working hours have changed, with businesses opening and closing later to take advantage of the cooler evenings.
Baghdad residents shutter themselves away during the searing afternoons, then re-emerge around midnight or later for a belated dinner in the manageable 35 deg C heat.
Inside, they crank up air-conditioning units, putting extra strain on the country's dilapidated power grid and causing the much-despised outages that sparked massive protests last year.
Further south in the oil-rich province of Basra, the heat has reached life-threatening levels.
Oil companies have hoisted purple flags above their facilities to signal the highest possible danger levels for those working on the fields given the heatwave.
With temperatures set to rise further in the weeks ahead, government officials are bracing themselves.
"The heat is reaching levels we haven't registered since 2011," says Mr Amer al-Jaberi of the state meteorological office. "It's going to be a hot summer."
Jun 19, 2019 - Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
The female bear, with its feet caked in mud, is the first polar bear seen in the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.PHOTO: REUTERS
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on June 18 in Norilsk's suburbs, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.PHOTO: REUTERS
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia.
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on Tuesday (June 18) in Norilsk's suburbs, its feet caked in mud, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.
It is the first polar bear seen in the city in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.
Mr Oleg Krashevsky, a local wildlife expert who filmed the polar bear close up, said it was unclear what had brought the animal to the city, although it was possible it had simply got lost. He said it had watery eyes and could clearly not see well.
Climate change has been damaging polar bears' sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.
A state of emergency was declared in a remote inhabited area of northern Russian earlier this year when dozens of hungry polar bears were seen scavenging for food and entering public buildings and homes.
State wildlife experts are expected to arrive in Norilsk on Wednesday to assess the bear's condition.
Local residents in the city known for nickel production came out to photograph the bear and look at it, with police preventing them from getting too close. Mr Krashevsky said it was not clear what would be done with the polar bear, as it looked too weak to be taken back to its natural habitat.
June 19, 2019 - Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Mount Everest (centre) and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen from the air during a mountain flight from Kathmandu.PHOTO: REUTERS
Himalayan glacier melt has doubled over the last 40 years, according to new research made possible by declassified cold war era satellite imagery.
The 650 glaciers under study in parts of China, India, Bhutan and Nepal were found to be melting at the rate of about 0.43m of water a year between 2000 and 2016, or twice as fast as they did between 1975 and 2000.
About 13 per cent of the ice seen in 1975 disappeared by 2000. In the next 16 years, another 15 per cent of the original glaciers vanished.
Those glaciers feed rivers that run from western Pakistan to central China, providing water for as many as a billion people.
The scale of the ice is so grand that the frozen top of Asia is commonly referred to as the "third pole," after Antarctica and the Arctic.
The melting was consistent across more than 2,000km. Researchers suspect the rise in regional average temperature over the last 40 years is the culprit.
The amount of energy it takes to melt that much ice "is consistent with warming temperatures recorded by meteorological stations in the region," they wrote, or about 1 deg C, though they said they were not able to be as specific as they would have liked.
"It looks just like what we would expect if warming were the dominant driver of ice loss," said Joshua Maurer, a Columbia PhD candidate and the lead author of the new Science Advances article, in a release.
Data from the study was obtained by US KH-9 Hexagon satellites used for global reconnaissance during the 1970s. The researchers accessed the images, which had been scanned by the US Geological Survey, through the agency's Earth Explorer portal.
The elevation levels were estimated using modelling and mathematical techniques, and most of the 42 images studied were taken from 1973 to 1976.
Jun 16, 2019 - Heat wave hits Iraq, one of hottest countries in the world - and sparks begin to fly
Heatwave hits Iraq, one of hottest countries in the world - and sparks begin to fly
An Iraqi man uses a curbside shower to cool off during a heatwave in the capital Baghdad, on June 14, 2019.PHOTO: AFP
Working hours have changed, with businesses opening and closing later to take advantage of the cooler evenings.
Baghdad residents shutter themselves away during the searing afternoons, then re-emerge around midnight or later for a belated dinner in the manageable 35 deg C heat.
Inside, they crank up air-conditioning units, putting extra strain on the country's dilapidated power grid and causing the much-despised outages that sparked massive protests last year.
Further south in the oil-rich province of Basra, the heat has reached life-threatening levels.
Oil companies have hoisted purple flags above their facilities to signal the highest possible danger levels for those working on the fields given the heatwave.
With temperatures set to rise further in the weeks ahead, government officials are bracing themselves.
"The heat is reaching levels we haven't registered since 2011," says Mr Amer al-Jaberi of the state meteorological office. "It's going to be a hot summer."
Jun 19, 2019 - Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
The female bear, with its feet caked in mud, is the first polar bear seen in the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.PHOTO: REUTERS
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on June 18 in Norilsk's suburbs, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.PHOTO: REUTERS
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia.
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on Tuesday (June 18) in Norilsk's suburbs, its feet caked in mud, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.
It is the first polar bear seen in the city in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.
Mr Oleg Krashevsky, a local wildlife expert who filmed the polar bear close up, said it was unclear what had brought the animal to the city, although it was possible it had simply got lost. He said it had watery eyes and could clearly not see well.
Climate change has been damaging polar bears' sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.
A state of emergency was declared in a remote inhabited area of northern Russian earlier this year when dozens of hungry polar bears were seen scavenging for food and entering public buildings and homes.
State wildlife experts are expected to arrive in Norilsk on Wednesday to assess the bear's condition.
Local residents in the city known for nickel production came out to photograph the bear and look at it, with police preventing them from getting too close. Mr Krashevsky said it was not clear what would be done with the polar bear, as it looked too weak to be taken back to its natural habitat.
June 19, 2019 - Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Mount Everest (centre) and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen from the air during a mountain flight from Kathmandu.PHOTO: REUTERS
Himalayan glacier melt has doubled over the last 40 years, according to new research made possible by declassified cold war era satellite imagery.
The 650 glaciers under study in parts of China, India, Bhutan and Nepal were found to be melting at the rate of about 0.43m of water a year between 2000 and 2016, or twice as fast as they did between 1975 and 2000.
About 13 per cent of the ice seen in 1975 disappeared by 2000. In the next 16 years, another 15 per cent of the original glaciers vanished.
Those glaciers feed rivers that run from western Pakistan to central China, providing water for as many as a billion people.
The scale of the ice is so grand that the frozen top of Asia is commonly referred to as the "third pole," after Antarctica and the Arctic.
The melting was consistent across more than 2,000km. Researchers suspect the rise in regional average temperature over the last 40 years is the culprit.
The amount of energy it takes to melt that much ice "is consistent with warming temperatures recorded by meteorological stations in the region," they wrote, or about 1 deg C, though they said they were not able to be as specific as they would have liked.
"It looks just like what we would expect if warming were the dominant driver of ice loss," said Joshua Maurer, a Columbia PhD candidate and the lead author of the new Science Advances article, in a release.
Data from the study was obtained by US KH-9 Hexagon satellites used for global reconnaissance during the 1970s. The researchers accessed the images, which had been scanned by the US Geological Survey, through the agency's Earth Explorer portal.
The elevation levels were estimated using modelling and mathematical techniques, and most of the 42 images studied were taken from 1973 to 1976.
This video is a timely and chilling (no pun intended) reminder that our increasingly erratic weather patterns are beginning to seriously affect global crop production. Even NASA is predicting the weakest solar activity in 200 years.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Your life is about to change - are world events adding up yet?
NASA comes out with a shocking announcement that starting in 2020 we will experience the lowest solar activity in 200 years, and global temperatures will drop. With this jet stream will shift creating new precipitation patterns and volcanic...
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Indeed, observations show a slowdown of the Earth's spin over the past 20 years:
Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connexion said:
I tried to find an updated table, and did not succeed, eventually I came back to Wikipedia which has a list of the dates when leap seconds were added Leap second - Wikipedia :
Announced leap seconds to date
| Year | Jun 30 | Dec 31 |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | +1 | +1 |
| 1973 | 0 | +1 |
| 1974 | 0 | +1 |
| 1975 | 0 | +1 |
| 1976 | 0 | +1 |
| 1977 | 0 | +1 |
| 1978 | 0 | +1 |
| 1979 | 0 | +1 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | +1 | 0 |
| 1982 | +1 | 0 |
| 1983 | +1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | +1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | +1 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | +1 |
| 1990 | 0 | +1 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | +1 | 0 |
| 1993 | +1 | 0 |
| 1994 | +1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | +1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | +1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | +1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | +1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | +1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | +1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | +1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | +1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | |
| Total | 11 | 16 |
| 27 |
For discussions of whether to maintain or do away with leap seconds see. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf and Leap seconds
I have been wondering what the loss of one second would mean for the Earth as a decrease in rotational speed would mean less kinetic energy which would most likely then be converted to heat generated due to friction. Also if one spins a fluid or semi solid sphere, the compression caused by the rotation would decrease leading to mass moving back toward the axis of rotation in this case the poles, again causing more generation of heat.
This article tells us, what we could otherwise calculate, namely that the Earth at the Equator passes a distance of 460 meters in one second. What would be interesting to calculate would be the change in kinetic energy of a globe like the Earth with its variously distributed mass throughout its lithosphere, rotating at its present speed, when its speed is changed amounting to a distance covered that is 460 meters less. Probably someone has made a model and done the math. At any rate, if one could calculate the amount of kinetic energy converted to heat energy or internal energy when the the speed of the rotation of the Earth is reduced then one could model the significance if any.
Jun 19, 2019 - Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
The female bear, with its feet caked in mud, is the first polar bear seen in the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.PHOTO: REUTERS
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on June 18 in Norilsk's suburbs, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.PHOTO: REUTERS
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia.
The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on Tuesday (June 18) in Norilsk's suburbs, its feet caked in mud, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.
It is the first polar bear seen in the city in more than 40 years, according to local environmentalists.
Mr Oleg Krashevsky, a local wildlife expert who filmed the polar bear close up, said it was unclear what had brought the animal to the city, although it was possible it had simply got lost. He said it had watery eyes and could clearly not see well.
Climate change has been damaging polar bears' sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.
A state of emergency was declared in a remote inhabited area of northern Russian earlier this year when dozens of hungry polar bears were seen scavenging for food and entering public buildings and homes.
State wildlife experts are expected to arrive in Norilsk on Wednesday to assess the bear's condition.
Local residents in the city known for nickel production came out to photograph the bear and look at it, with police preventing them from getting too close. Mr Krashevsky said it was not clear what would be done with the polar bear, as it looked too weak to be taken back to its natural habitat.
June 19, 2019 - Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Cold War spy imagery shows Asian glacier melt is speeding up
Mount Everest (centre) and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen from the air during a mountain flight from Kathmandu.PHOTO: REUTERS
Himalayan glacier melt has doubled over the last 40 years, according to new research made possible by declassified cold war era satellite imagery.
The 650 glaciers under study in parts of China, India, Bhutan and Nepal were found to be melting at the rate of about 0.43m of water a year between 2000 and 2016, or twice as fast as they did between 1975 and 2000.
About 13 per cent of the ice seen in 1975 disappeared by 2000. In the next 16 years, another 15 per cent of the original glaciers vanished.
Those glaciers feed rivers that run from western Pakistan to central China, providing water for as many as a billion people.
The scale of the ice is so grand that the frozen top of Asia is commonly referred to as the "third pole," after Antarctica and the Arctic.
The melting was consistent across more than 2,000km. Researchers suspect the rise in regional average temperature over the last 40 years is the culprit.
The amount of energy it takes to melt that much ice "is consistent with warming temperatures recorded by meteorological stations in the region," they wrote, or about 1 deg C, though they said they were not able to be as specific as they would have liked.
"It looks just like what we would expect if warming were the dominant driver of ice loss," said Joshua Maurer, a Columbia PhD candidate and the lead author of the new Science Advances article, in a release.
Data from the study was obtained by US KH-9 Hexagon satellites used for global reconnaissance during the 1970s. The researchers accessed the images, which had been scanned by the US Geological Survey, through the agency's Earth Explorer portal.
The elevation levels were estimated using modelling and mathematical techniques, and most of the 42 images studied were taken from 1973 to 1976.
See:
Bogus Greenpeace claim that lost Russian polar bear is evidence of climate change
Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on April 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Bogus Greenpeace claim that lost Russian polar bear is evidence of climate change Another day, another bogus starving pol…
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and:
Skinny polar bear far inland in Siberia not due to sea ice loss but a rare normal event • Watts Up With That?
Reposted from Polar Bear Science A thin polar bear has wandered more than 1000km south of the Kara Sea into the Siberian town of Norilsk, which has happened at least once before in the 1970s. It is reminiscent of a similar incident this past winter in Alaska and there is no reason to blame this
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Weekend storms to bring summer snow to Steamboat area mountains
A rainy weekend will bring showers and thunderstorms to the Yampa Valley floor, but snow is in the forecast for areas at 10,000 feet or higher.
www.steamboatpilot.com
“It’s an unseasonably cold system, and really, this is right in line with what we’ve experienced pretty much this entire spring,” Weissbluth said.
Preliminary data from the National Weather Service indicates this May has been cooler and wetter than average. This year’s average May temperature of 45.1 degrees was 3.7 degrees cooler than the long-term normal of 48.8.
Steamboat Springs received 4.26 inches of water in May, nearly double the norm of 2.24 inches. The 9.3 inches of snow the area received in May is more than three times greater than the May normal of 2.5 inches.
So far, June is trending at average temperatures, but the area is exceeding the long-term average with 1.67 inches of water so far this month, compared to 1.36 inches the area has usually received in the first 20 days of June.
“It’s been colder and wetter than average, and that’s exacerbated by the past few summers being warmer and drier than average,” Weissbluth said. “We have a double whammy here.”
But, Weissbluth said the Yampa Valley could soon swap the wet, cold spring weather for warmer monsoon moisture, which is typical of summer.
Behind these storms, Weissbluth said a ridge of warm, dry weather will hang over the West in the coming week. That ridge could bring summer monsoons north to New Mexico next week, though he wasn’t sure that would swing up to Colorado.
“I’d like to say that this will likely mark the end of these cold and wet systems coming across the West, but I’m not sure I could say that with certainty,” he said.
Normal
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft
All images from the snowy opening of the Chapelco 2019 Todas las imágenes de la blanca apertura de la temporada de Chapelco 2019 season
Slightly different is the higher altitudes around the world are keeping accumulated snow-pack's longer.
Translated from Italian by Microsoft
Today the glacier will remain closed all day! Instead of skiing, how about a walk or a ride (perhaps with an assisted pedal bike)?#cervinomountainparadise #summerishere #sport
Oppenheimer Ranch Project @Diamondthedave
Cosmic Rays Increase Hail Size and Duration - (VLF) Could Be Used As Cosmic Ray Mitigation
1:06 AM - 1 Jul 2019
(AUDIO PODCAST) MIAC #210 The Week Our World Reached Peak Agricultural Output
Jul 2, 2019
David DuByne creator of the ADAPT 2030 channel on YouTube discusses societal changes as our Earth shifts to a cooler climate as the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun which will affect crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet. This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2023. RT / 25:43
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft
All images from the snowy opening of the Chapelco 2019 Todas las imágenes de la blanca apertura de la temporada de Chapelco 2019 season
Slightly different is the higher altitudes around the world are keeping accumulated snow-pack's longer.
Translated from Italian by Microsoft
Today the glacier will remain closed all day! Instead of skiing, how about a walk or a ride (perhaps with an assisted pedal bike)?
Oppenheimer Ranch Project @Diamondthedave
Cosmic Rays Increase Hail Size and Duration - (VLF) Could Be Used As Cosmic Ray Mitigation
1:06 AM - 1 Jul 2019
(AUDIO PODCAST) MIAC #210 The Week Our World Reached Peak Agricultural Output
Jul 2, 2019
David DuByne creator of the ADAPT 2030 channel on YouTube discusses societal changes as our Earth shifts to a cooler climate as the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun which will affect crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet. This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2023. RT / 25:43
- Massive corn losses China & USA
- Is the USDA being truthful about planting rates?
- How farmers can avoid delivery for physical delivery of futures contracts
- USDA puts non planted acreage at 32 million in 2019
- Grain inspections are far behind as inspectors are inundated with flooded grain inspections
- World grain carry-over stocks decline 30 million tons from 260 to 230, in 2017 was 720 million tons, where is all the grain going?
- Australia becomes a net grain importer
- Private crop insurers cannot pay all of the agriculture claims this year
- Farmers planted in wet fields to claim government crop insurance
- Global food insecurity 2021
beetlemaniac
The Living Force
Stumbled upon this news video where an expert on sea levels who was involved in reviewing an IPCC report states that CO2 caused global warming is false science. I think the interviewer really does the topic justice. It might be worth sharing on social media.
Normal trends with volumes recorded. And European (northern equatorial higher elevation's), snowfalls are still active.
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It hett snow ☃- juhee or ojee?! In the#Wallis snow it up to 2300 m. Here on the #Riffelberg at almost 2600 m it even started right.
Translated from French
Return of the #neige in high #montagne yesterday in the #Alpes [2/2] - Video on the Monts sur le Sauze d'Oulx by Anna Perco ( #Piémont , #Italie )
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❄ New snow ❄ high mountains Picture#Höhentief Schilthorn-Birg 2680müM and Jungfraujoch (3500müM ,- 2.8° / Bernese Alps, Switzerland) . Clock Terms (1020müM 9.7° and 16.8 mm RR since midnight
Revisiting the Biological Ramifications of Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Oppenheimer Ranch Project
8:31 AM · Jul 15, 2019 · Facebook
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It hett snow ☃- juhee or ojee?! In the
Translated from French
Return of the #neige in high #montagne yesterday in the #Alpes [2/2] - Video on the Monts sur le Sauze d'Oulx by Anna Perco ( #Piémont , #Italie )
Translated from German by Microsoft
❄ New snow ❄ high mountains Picture
Revisiting the Biological Ramifications of Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Oppenheimer Ranch Project
8:31 AM · Jul 15, 2019 · Facebook
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"It's 2030 — a bit over 10 years from now — and a fleet of modified cargo planes take off carrying an unusual payload. They're headed 20 kilometres up — way above where existing commercial aircraft fly — where they will spray tonnes of sulfate particles into the stratosphere. By the end of the century special planes like this will be making 300,000 flights a year to deliver millions of tonnes of sulfate particles to reflect sunlight. It's a last-ditch effort to save the world from dangerous warming because we haven't been able to get our greenhouse emissions under control. You might think this giant planetary sunshade sounds far-fetched, but some scientists starting to research this technology think we may well need such "a brutally ugly technical fix". However others argue that such a speculative technology — known as "stratospheric aerosol injection" —poses even greater risks than climate change itself."
Full article here: A planet-sized sunshade? It sounds far-fetched, but some scientists are seriously considering it
What could possibly go wrong? (that's my sarcastic question, but unfortunately people are taking this very seriously)
Full article here: A planet-sized sunshade? It sounds far-fetched, but some scientists are seriously considering it
What could possibly go wrong? (that's my sarcastic question, but unfortunately people are taking this very seriously)
Skyalmian
Jedi Council Member
(Evidently none of them have heard of Snowpiercer (2013) - IMDb ...)
Hi All, I was searching for the rainfall pattern in my area during previous solar minimums and came across a paper by Brett Walker called, "The New Grand Minimum". It was presented to the Australian Actuarial Summit in May 2013.
Probably the most informative and coherent (real) science based information I have come across on climate change.
Pardon the pun but it is kind of chilling reading.
Probably the most informative and coherent (real) science based information I have come across on climate change.
Pardon the pun but it is kind of chilling reading.
