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Cost of not acting on climate change $44 trillion: Citi | CNBC

 

Ancient Mars Had Long-Lasting Lakes, Boosting Chances for Life | Space

 

After a Mass Extinction, Only the Small Survive | New York Times

 

Methane Leaks May Greatly Exceed Estimates, Report Says | New York Times

 

Billions of People Depend on Water From Shrinking Snowpacks | New York Times

 

Collapsing Greenland glacier could raise sea levels by half a metre, say scientists

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ise-sea-levels-by-half-a-metre-say-scientists

Mouginot and his colleagues drew on 40 years of satellite data and aerial surveys to show that the enormous Zachariae Isstrom glacier began to recede three times faster from 2012, with its retreat speeding up by 125 metres per year every year until the most recent measurements in 2015.

To the north of Zachariae Isstrom, the scientists studied a second large glacier called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden. Together, the two glaciers drain a region of nearly 200,000 sq km, amounting to 12% of the Greenland ice sheet. Were both to melt, they would contribute a full metre to global sea levels.
The monitoring showed that Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier was also melting rapidly, but retreating more slowly than Zachariae Isstrom along uphill terrain. If the thinning continues at today’s pace, the scientists believe the ice shelf will become vulnerable to break up in the near future.

The bleak assessment of the glaciers’ retreat comes only months after Nasa launched an urgent six year project called Oceans Melting Greenland, aptly contracted to OMG, to understand the processes that drive the loss of Greenland ice.

 

mr obama's promises and pledge expire with his term of office. he cannot commit future presidents or the usa on his say so, unless the senate ratifies (2/3) thus making a treaty.

 

Don't just assume he will leave at the end of his term.

 

GreenWave ocean farming model scoops $100,000 sustainability prize | The Guardian

 

Plastic Trash Found in Arctic Ocean, Likely Forming Sixth Garbage Patch | EcoWatch

 

Survey on attitudes towards cetaceans:

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/BcJvyeLB

 

Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change | New York Times

 

Question number 12, a nuclear war is inevitable at time of any day.

The U.S. and Russia both have a nuclear policy of “launch on warning”--a "hair-trigger" alert system. This means that less than 15 minutes after detecting a missile attack -- real or false -- through radar and satellite early warning systems these nation's militaries must launch their 5,000 on-alert nuclear weapons or possibly loose them to a first strike by the other side. And of this 15 minutes, only two or three minutes are allowed for actual deliberation by the Presidents of the United States or Russia. Barely time to get a phone call through on their "red telephones."

 

Climate change talks: five reasons to be cheerful or fearful | The Guardian

 

The only way humans have a chance to survive is to realize that killing earthlings for food sport and fun is the main cause of global warming, not so much the destruction to the environment which is devastating, but the ongoing destruction of morals and conscience that decides what karma human have on earth.
Earth is a human created ticking time bomb "literally" that any time at any day its gong to go BOOOMMMM and the DAY AFTER will be time earthlings will suffer equally.