Chris Mooney has it exactly correct. The longer there are greenhouse gas emissions the more and more extreme the weather will become. Earth is not able to mediate it's heat without the physics of water. The more heat Earth achieves the worse and worse it will become.
Scientists have been heralding the importance of alternative fuels and conservation to preserve the 'green component' of Earth. The other question is how long will the algae of the oceans continue to bloom as the oceans warm?
This is no joke. Earth was once a planet in the middle of it's heat potential. There was warm weather and there was cold weather. Earth had intact ice fields, glaciers and an ice ocean and ice continent that held aged ice that mitigated the heat. Earth is losing it's capacity to cool. As the lose of these means to mitigate the climate become more and more depleted there are severe consequences.
August 20, 2016
By Chris Mooney
With fires, floods and rising seas forcing a village to move, Chris Mooney asks if events this week are a sign of things to come.
Scientists have been heralding the importance of alternative fuels and conservation to preserve the 'green component' of Earth. The other question is how long will the algae of the oceans continue to bloom as the oceans warm?
This is no joke. Earth was once a planet in the middle of it's heat potential. There was warm weather and there was cold weather. Earth had intact ice fields, glaciers and an ice ocean and ice continent that held aged ice that mitigated the heat. Earth is losing it's capacity to cool. As the lose of these means to mitigate the climate become more and more depleted there are severe consequences.
August 20, 2016
By Chris Mooney
With fires, floods and rising seas forcing a village to move, Chris Mooney asks if events this week are a sign of things to come.
In San Bernardino County, California, 82,000 people were ordered to leave their homes on Thursday as an explosive wildfire "hit with an intensity that we hadn't seen before", as one fire official said, and surged across more than 120 square kilometres.
It followed dramatic flooding in Louisiana that the Red Cross termed the "worst natural disaster" in the United States since Hurricane Sandy four years ago. At least 13 people have been killed and 40,000 homes damaged - and those numbers could get worse.
The same week as the Louisiana and California disasters, the Alaskan village of Shishmaref voted to permanently relocate as the barrier island on which it rests is threatened by rising seas.
It all seems more and more of a pattern - from worse than one-in-1000-year floods in South Carolina to 2015 floods in Texas and Oklahoma that scientists later said had been enhanced by global warming....
The funding (click here) for the Antarctica I was viewing has ended.
Ignorance is bliss to some I suppose, but, it is not the way to maintain climate awareness.
There are other satellites, but, this is ridiculous. These are colleges now left without their own access point.
