Ocean News

Global sea ice extent (Arctic and Antarctic combined) the last few months is "off the charts".



http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/11/monthly-co-not-under-400-ppm-in-2016.html?m=1

 

The Rockefeller Family Fund vs. Exxon | New York Times Review of Books

In a rich irony, the Rockefeller Family Fund, which made its vast fortune from big oil, and whose largest subsidiary after being broken up is Exxon-Mobil, funded the investigative research which shows how Exxon scientists first came to realize how their company's product would cause global warming, and then how company executives launched a disinformation campaign worthy of big tobacco to confound the public (which this forum and the recent election certainly shows that they were successful).


http://www.climatechangenews.com/2013/09/10/dealing-in-doubt-how-big-oil-funds-climate-denial/

 

Scientists chart a 400-mile zone of coral devastation at the Great Barrier Reef | Washington Post

It's now been confirmed that the northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef this year suffered the worst bleaching and die-off ever. Furthermore, all the stressed corals, even those further south, even if they only bleached and didn't die, have come under increased predation and disease.

 

Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal US emissions | PHYS.org

In a study published in Science researchers have concluded that a 1°C warming, expected by mid-century, will release an amount of carbon from soils equivalent to adding another industrialized country the size of the United States. Most of the carbon released will come from soils in Arctic and sub-Arctic areas. This may result in a positive feedback system, forcing temperatures even higher, and thus releasing even more soil carbon.

a, Map of predicted changes in soil C stocks per pixel by 2050 under the ‘no acclimatization’ scenario. This map was generated by extrapolating Equation (2) using spatially explicit estimates of soil C stocks and soil surface temperature change to reveal the spatial variation in projected changes in surface soil C stocks (0–15 cm depth) expected under a 1 °C rise in global average soil surface temperature. Note that Equation (2) reflects the maximum effect-time scenario, which generates the largest possible estimates of soil C change. This map also predicts C gains in tropical/desert regions that contain almost no soil C at present, but our lack of data in these mid-latitude regions means that we have low confidence in these effects. b, Total reductions in the global C pool under 1 °C and 2 °C global average soil surface warming by 2050, as expected under a full range of different soil C effect-time scenarios (x axis). Note that effect-time refers to the rate at which the full soil C response to warming is realized. Shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence intervals around the average C losses (dots) for each scenario. The rapid effect-time scenarios (for example, one week to one year) result in lower total soil C losses than the maximum effect-time scenario, but all simulations reveal considerable global losses of soil C under warming over the next 35 years.​

 

Climate change is natural. We have no power over it. All our feeble efforts at anything are swept away by nature. Warming comes from the Sun. It is going to be a cold winter.

Your fear mongering propaganda can't change anything except to move us from freedom to serfdom.

 

Yes climate claim is natural, this time round is caused by humans in a very very short time and is natures way of naturally culling out the cause of human made climate change as the same as the several thousand Nuclear war heads is a natural way for humans to self exterminate and wild life will go back to its former glory.

 

I have to repeat myself. Nuclear war is not climate. It is weather, a storm, having localized effects.

 

A volcanic eruptions causes climate change the same as the Asteroid 10 km (6 miles) across hit Earth about 65 million years ago caused climate change the same as human pollution and greed cause global warming "climate" change and soon a nuclear fall out causing climate change.
Climate is Climate

 

Warming seas are attacking the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the inside out | Christian Science Monitor

Typically tide-water glaciers calve just at their terminus. However, as reported in a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, in the last few years, some of the Antarctic tidewater glaciers are melting and thinning at their bases well inland of the terminus, causing large sections to break off. Scientists are concerned that this phenomena could portend a total destabilization of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, possibly even within our lifetime.







see also http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/11/west-antarctica-begins-to-destabilize.html

 

Climate change will stir 'unimaginable' refugee crisis, says military | The Guardian

Top military brass, from Bangladesh to the U.K, to the U.S., are warning that mass migrations due to climate change could become the "new normal".


http://tcktcktck.org/2013/05/hundreds-of-millions-will-be-displaced-by-climate-change/

 

The Earth and its ecosystem is massive. We occupy a small part of a very thin layer at the surface of this planet. We could not change the climate if we tried. All heat comes from the Sun, which varies its output of Solar radiation on a cyclical basis. It is complex, with short term cycles and longer cycles to boot. All this contention that Humans are responsible in any way for climate change is rubbish meant to scare us into submission to so-called masterminds who want to exercise power over us and limit or destroy any vestige of whatever freedom that is remaining to us. Our rights come from God and no mere mortal deserves to deprive us of our rights.

Some kid lost his plastic hockey stick in the Gulf of Mexico recently and I saw it floating out of reach when I was walking my friend. That is an example of pollution but not climate altering.

 

During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average | PHYS.org

As reported in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, during the most recent warming period, startling about 20,000 years ago, Antarctica warmed about 11°C (20°F), whereas the rest of the planet averaged only 4°C (7°F). That same ratio appears to roughly be holding for the polar regions, yielding the estimate that if global temperatures rise the anticipated 3°C (5°F) by 2100 in a business-as-usual scenario, Antarctic temperatures will go up by 6°C (10°F).

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Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level | The Guardian

The Arctic Resilience Report has noted 19 “tipping points” that could be triggered by the rapid melting of the arctic ice cap.


https://www.sei-international.org/m.../Publications/ArcticResilienceReport-2016.pdf, page 79

 

Thermonuclear Submarine Bomb

Russia's Thermonuclear Submarine Bomb is allegedly capable of traveling underwater to distances of to 6,200 miles. It can submerge to depths of 3,280 feet and travel at speeds of up to 56 knots.

The U.S. intelligence agencies estimate Status-6 will carry a multi-megaton thermonuclear bomb payload. For comparisons' sake the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 16 kilotons, a one megaton bomb is the equivalent of 1,000 kilotons, reports from Russia indicate the bomb could be as large as 100 megatons.

The drone's existence was originally revealed in 2015. The release, which was thought to have been an embarrassing mistake, stated the drone would be ready by 2019, with tests to begin in 2019-2020. This "mistake" may have been intentional to fool foreign intelligence agencies into believing the program was not as far along as it really was.

 

Thousands of Invisible Oil Spills Are Destroying The Gulf of Mexico | Wired

There are about 30,000 oil spills per year in the US. While the big ones get extensive news coverage, the medium and small one seldom do. Many of these smaller leaks are due to aging infrastructure, but because the leaks are "small" they are ignored, even though collectively the reported amount of oil lost is over 13 million gallons per year, which is more than that lost by the Exxon-Valdeze -- and there are no penalties for under-reporting losses. But don't you worry, kiddies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the next administration has your back.

There are about 30,000 oil spills per year in US waters nationally.
This map only shows the spills that have been reported since 2005​