Climate Change is acting much faster than many have expected. Global sea ice is in a free fall compared to all other years on record.
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The North Pole is an insane 20 C warmer than normal as winter descends
While we’re on the topic of Climate Change, this post and article is worth reading (from my science blog above).
That’s 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it should be at this time of year. I’m especially troubled because my Actual News-Reading Friends are reacting to this with “wait but is that normal, or is it actually global warming?”
Which means that sources like the Washington Post are doing a terrible job of explaining what this actually means. Which is probably a huge part of why people are generally not very concerned about climate change, especially not compared to how bad the situation actually is.
The graph above shows that every single year on record, the amount of ice in the sea has grown and melted at about the same times and in the same amounts. Except this year, when suddenly, instead of a bunch of ice forming in fucking winter, it’s… Not. It’s remaining at summer levels, basically.
This is not just part of global warming, it IS global warming. This is the core of the whole thing. The amazing amounts of carbon dioxide that we’ve been dumping into the atmosphere at an increasing rate for the past 100 years have been trapping more and more heat inside the atmosphere.
This has finally reached the point of Horrible Vicious Cycle. Because when it gets too warm, the polar ice caps melt.
When they melt, the oceans become much warmer and more acidic and can’t sustain life well.
When the oceans get warmer, they stop helping cool the atmosphere. Having large bodies of cold water lying around is GOOD if you want an area to be cooler. Having large bodies of warm water lying around does fuck all for cooling anybody down.
The less the oceans help cool things, the more our carbon emissions affect the atmosphere. Because they’re no longer partly being counteracted by the oceans.
Which means global warming accelerates.
Which means ice melting accelerates.
Which means the oceans get even more fucked up.
Which means global warming accelerates even more.
The reaction to this should not be “wait but is this just a thing that happens, the newspaper didn’t really say,” it should be a massive, front page, global headline of “OH FUCKING SHIT.”
Don’t just repost. Find ways to reduce you’re impact. Find ways ton make the big guys change their ways.
Actually, if this is in fact the tipping point event where global arming sets in its own vicious cycle (and it may very well be, scientists have been warning us that it’s coming for a while now), then according to pretty much all global warming experts we can’t stop it. No amount of carbon cut backs are going to make a dent in global warming once it becomes self-sustaining.
Which means that if this is in fact where we’re at not, even “Find ways ton make the big guys change their ways” isn’t going to help us. It means “take power from the big guys so they can not maintain a world where the right survive and the poor drown” becomes out only option.
And breaking down the militarized borders between northern nations (US, EU) and the southern should be the very first priority because global warming will impact the south of our globe and the area around the equator much more (it already does) than it does the north and the militarized borders in place right now are designed to make sure than those living in effected areas can not move to a safer place.
If this is in fact the tipping point event where global arming sets in its own vicious cycle, then huge parts of our planet will probably become uninhabitable, food production will plummet, natural disasters will get much worse, access to drinking water will become a huge problem for much of the world. This isn’t someoverly dramatic doomsday shit, this is what global warming experts have been telling us will happen if we allow global warming to reach the point where it becomes self sustaining.
And it is up to us to decide whether we want to survive that together, saving as many lives as we can or whether we want to live in a world where “the big guys” get to decide who lives and who doesn’t.
Recommended reading: Before the Big Change
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