It was so much easier when you could think of the Arctic as white, covered in a crisp layer of snow and ice. Today you have to think green as in vast tracts of ice-free ocean and exposed tundra and permafrost. The tundra, largely frozen peat, is thawing and drying
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The Disaffected Lib: Words Best Left Unspoken
Ever notice how a word or phrase can abruptly disappear from our language almost without anyone noticing much less wondering why?I wonder whatever happened to “tipping points”? Where did that term go? Why did it fall off the radar?Just a few years ago,…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Worst Case Scenario
FIFTY? Fifty self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms are now active? University of Arizona professor emeritus, natural resources, ecology and evolutionary biology, Guy McPherson no longer pursues pure science, environmental research. He can’t. He’s too busy digesting the mountains of research pouring in from other scientists and connecting the dots. There’s really no
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We Just Keep Getting it Wrong
It’s a guessing game and we’re not very good at it. The “game” is trying to work out how quickly the planet’s ice fields are melting. In essence, we’re guessing how much time we have before the meltwater hits our shores. The latest guesstimate to fall is the Greenland ice
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Now This Is an Eye-Opener. Greenland Goes Black.
Glaciologist Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland is trying to wake up the world to just what’s actually happening to the Greenland ice sheet. He’s crowd-sourced a venture to bring these photos to the public. They reveal the extent of dust and soot contamination of the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We Can’t Pretend Any Longer
The tundra is burning. Coupled with retreating glaciers and loss of Arctic sea ice, we now have three global warming feedback loop mechanisms that are plainly visible to the naked eye from space. This is not the face of man-made or anthropogenic global warming. No, we pulled the trigger but
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