The Oceans Hold the Answers
Climate change is no longer just about sea level rise and severe storms. Mother Nature will be struggling to support human life by the end of the century. We have no choice but to be pro-active. At the very least we can all help raise awareness. The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now. Each so complete a slate-wiping of the evolutionary record, it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock. The planetary clock is ticking now and time is running out faster than the IPCC warnings. Don't let Mother Nature dim. Our children and grandchildren need her more than you know.
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Oceans Are Trapping More Heat Than We Realized, Accelerating Global Warming
November 2018 - Daily Beast
A new report published Wednesday in the journal Nature notes that the world’s oceans are absorbing more heat than previously estimated, setting the stage for more extreme global warming than predicted.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
Dec. 5, 2018 - NY Times
Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected.
Negative Emissions Won't Rescue Us From Climate Change
October 29, 2018 Forbes
The gulf between the promise of these technologies (a multitude of variations on carbon capture and storage) and their real ability to offset a future of high carbon emissions appears unbridgeable, if not in terms technological viability, then almost surely in terms of magnitude and scale.
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
Oct. 31, 2018 - Washington Post
The world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in the years ahead, according to new research published Wednesday.
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
Oct. 31, 2018 - Washington Post
The world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in the years ahead, according to new research published Wednesday.
Recently there has been a significant shift in the warnings from the scientific community. They have admitted to misjudging the amount of heat absorption by the deep oceans due to lack of data (they had surface data but little deep water data) and consequently, they have underestimated the rate at which global warming will progress.
It's likely their estimates have been off by 60%. That's right, the deep oceans retained 60% more heat each year than scientists previously had thought." This is a startling discrepancy with immense ramifications. In essence, more heat in the oceans signals that global warming is more advanced than scientists thought. The IPCC did not take this new information into account at the time of their study. So their recommendations are no longer be accurate.
The calcuated reduction in CO2 emissions within a decade will increase by 60%. This new data is changing the conversation. Can we achieve this?
DID YOU KNOW
Tropical peatlands may contain as much carbon as the amount consumed in nearly a decade of global fossil fuel use, and raging peat fires in Indonesia alone have been estimated in some years to contribute 10 to 40 percent as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as all the world’s fossil fuel burning.
The fact that much warming is taking place below the sea surface could make that it gets overlooked. If much of this warming were to get transferred from the Arctic Ocean to the atmosphere over the next few years, then the temperature rise over the next few years could take an even sharper turn upward.
