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"Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life’s race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once."
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[Our] analysis showed that the resilience of tropical, arid and temperate forests has declined over this period. [We] found that these changes were associated with reduced water availability and increasing climate variability. However, boreal forests in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere showed an increasing trend in resilience. This is possibly because these cold-climate forests have been benefiting from warming and CO2 fertilisation, which has boosted their productivity.
Forests which have already reached their critical threshold and are experiencing a further degradation in resilience may be potentially close to a tipping point. A possible collapse of these forests would seriously endanger the provision of key ecosystem services. This includes capture and storage - trees soak up CO2 during photosynthesis and store carbon in their trunks and roots.
There is growing concern, for example, that parts of the Amazon rainforest will turn into grassland because of drought, fires and deforestation.
-- Giovanni Forzieri --
Forests which have already reached their critical threshold and are experiencing a further degradation in resilience may be potentially close to a tipping point. A possible collapse of these forests would seriously endanger the provision of key ecosystem services. This includes capture and storage - trees soak up CO2 during photosynthesis and store carbon in their trunks and roots.
There is growing concern, for example, that parts of the Amazon rainforest will turn into grassland because of drought, fires and deforestation.
-- Giovanni Forzieri --
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Scientists previously estimated that the Arctic is heating up about twice as fast as the globe overall. The new study finds that is a significant underestimate of recent warming. In the last 43 years, the region has warmed 3.8 times faster than the planet as a whole.
-- Mika Rantanen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute --
-- Mika Rantanen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute --
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What does your study show for each region?
In the mid-latitudes by 2050, we’ll see the number of dangerous heat days double in the most likely future scenario – even under modest greenhouse gas emissions that would meet the Paris climate agreement target of keeping warming under 2 C (3.6 F).
In the Southeastern U.S., the most likely scenario is that people will experience a month or two of dangerous heat days every year. The same is likely in parts of China, where some regions have been sweating through a summer 2022 heat wave for over two straight months.
We found that by the end of the century, most places in the mid-latitudes will see a three- to tenfold increase in the number of dangerous days.
In the tropics, such as parts of India, the heat index right now can exceed the dangerous level for a few weeks a year. It’s been like that for the past 20 to 30 years. By 2050, those conditions are likely to occur over several months each year, we found. And by the end of the century, many places will see those conditions most of the year....
What can be done to avoid these risks?
Part of our work in this study was determining the odds that the world will actually meet the Paris agreement. We found that to be around 0.1%. Basically, it’s not going to happen.
By the end of the century, we found the most likely scenario is that the planet will see 5.4 F (3 C) of warming globally compared to pre-industrial times. Land warms faster than ocean, so that translates to about a 7 F (3.9 C) increase for places where we live, work and play – and you can get a sense of the future....
David Battisti, University of Washington
In the mid-latitudes by 2050, we’ll see the number of dangerous heat days double in the most likely future scenario – even under modest greenhouse gas emissions that would meet the Paris climate agreement target of keeping warming under 2 C (3.6 F).
In the Southeastern U.S., the most likely scenario is that people will experience a month or two of dangerous heat days every year. The same is likely in parts of China, where some regions have been sweating through a summer 2022 heat wave for over two straight months.
We found that by the end of the century, most places in the mid-latitudes will see a three- to tenfold increase in the number of dangerous days.
In the tropics, such as parts of India, the heat index right now can exceed the dangerous level for a few weeks a year. It’s been like that for the past 20 to 30 years. By 2050, those conditions are likely to occur over several months each year, we found. And by the end of the century, many places will see those conditions most of the year....
What can be done to avoid these risks?
Part of our work in this study was determining the odds that the world will actually meet the Paris agreement. We found that to be around 0.1%. Basically, it’s not going to happen.
By the end of the century, we found the most likely scenario is that the planet will see 5.4 F (3 C) of warming globally compared to pre-industrial times. Land warms faster than ocean, so that translates to about a 7 F (3.9 C) increase for places where we live, work and play – and you can get a sense of the future....
David Battisti, University of Washington
Indeed....!!
That climate thrashing thread was closed down... please let's not make this go the same route!
Read the title of this thread...
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It is a "Boat Joke".
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The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.
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How about some real uplifting and helpful quotes?
"The population of humpback whales in the western South Atlantic, which had dropped to around 450 in the 1950s, now is estimated at around 25,000 — near the level, scientists estimate existed before hunting began."
"In Florida, scientists estimate that the population of green turtle nests climbed from 62 in 1979 to 37,341 in 2015."
"In many areas, the ocean is dangerously overfished. But the world’s most valuable fisheries, which make up roughly 34 percent of global captures, are relatively healthy in general, environmental economists Christopher Costello of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Daniel Ovando of the University of Washington in Seattle wrote in the 2019 Annual Review of Environment and Resources.""
"An analysis of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off Hawaii, the third-largest protected area in the world, found “little, if any, negative impacts on the fishing industry,” according to a 2020 Nature Communications article. And in Southern California, MPAs preventing fishing in 35 percent of one coastal area led to a 225 percent increase in spiny lobster catch after just six years, scientists reported in a 2021 Scientific Reports paper."
"a series of governmental restrictions that began in the 1970s to ban leaded fuels in vehicles, a major source of ocean pollution. During a global expedition in 2010 and 2011, Duarte and colleagues looked at levels of lead across the ocean and found they had dropped to negligible. “By banning leaded fuels, we actually restored the whole ocean within 30 years,” he says."
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“We’ve seen a slowdown of the losses of mangroves and in many regions of the world we’re starting to see an increase,” says Duarte. “We are very, very capable of restoring mangroves at scale, and I think it’s doable to restore them to almost their historical extent within the next 30 years.”
The most dramatic example, Duarte adds, is the restoration of 1,400 square kilometers of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta mangrove forest, destroyed by the US Air Force in the 1970s."
"Judging by analyses of the tsunami’s impact published later, “it was clear that in the villages where there was a pocket of mangrove sheltered between the shoreline and the village, there was almost no human cost,” he says. “Even property losses were severely reduced.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inverse.com/culture/the-case-for-ocean-optimism/amp
It is good to read both about the issues and problems as well as successful solutions that reassure is that we are doing the right things and they will continue to be successful.
-Will
"The population of humpback whales in the western South Atlantic, which had dropped to around 450 in the 1950s, now is estimated at around 25,000 — near the level, scientists estimate existed before hunting began."
"In Florida, scientists estimate that the population of green turtle nests climbed from 62 in 1979 to 37,341 in 2015."
"In many areas, the ocean is dangerously overfished. But the world’s most valuable fisheries, which make up roughly 34 percent of global captures, are relatively healthy in general, environmental economists Christopher Costello of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Daniel Ovando of the University of Washington in Seattle wrote in the 2019 Annual Review of Environment and Resources.""
"An analysis of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off Hawaii, the third-largest protected area in the world, found “little, if any, negative impacts on the fishing industry,” according to a 2020 Nature Communications article. And in Southern California, MPAs preventing fishing in 35 percent of one coastal area led to a 225 percent increase in spiny lobster catch after just six years, scientists reported in a 2021 Scientific Reports paper."
"a series of governmental restrictions that began in the 1970s to ban leaded fuels in vehicles, a major source of ocean pollution. During a global expedition in 2010 and 2011, Duarte and colleagues looked at levels of lead across the ocean and found they had dropped to negligible. “By banning leaded fuels, we actually restored the whole ocean within 30 years,” he says."
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“We’ve seen a slowdown of the losses of mangroves and in many regions of the world we’re starting to see an increase,” says Duarte. “We are very, very capable of restoring mangroves at scale, and I think it’s doable to restore them to almost their historical extent within the next 30 years.”
The most dramatic example, Duarte adds, is the restoration of 1,400 square kilometers of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta mangrove forest, destroyed by the US Air Force in the 1970s."
"Judging by analyses of the tsunami’s impact published later, “it was clear that in the villages where there was a pocket of mangrove sheltered between the shoreline and the village, there was almost no human cost,” he says. “Even property losses were severely reduced.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inverse.com/culture/the-case-for-ocean-optimism/amp
It is good to read both about the issues and problems as well as successful solutions that reassure is that we are doing the right things and they will continue to be successful.
-Will
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Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fuelling extreme weather events
The amount of heat accumulating in the ocean is accelerating and penetrating ever deeper, with widespread effects on extreme weather events and marine life, according to a new scientific review.
More than 90% of the heat caused by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels is taken up by the ocean.
The rate of warming in the top 2km has doubled from levels in the 1960s, the article in the journal Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment said.
According to the review the extra heat is accelerating sea level rise, intensifying extreme rain events, melting ice, adding energy to cyclones and changing where they form, and causing more intense marine heatwaves.
Marine habitats including coral reefs were being threatened and the heating meant oceans were less able to take carbon out of the atmosphere.
Even under the most ambitious scenarios for action on greenhouse gas emissions, the review said the ocean’s heating will at least double from current levels by the end of the century.
Past and future ocean warming | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00345-1#Abs1
The amount of heat accumulating in the ocean is accelerating and penetrating ever deeper, with widespread effects on extreme weather events and marine life, according to a new scientific review.
More than 90% of the heat caused by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels is taken up by the ocean.
The rate of warming in the top 2km has doubled from levels in the 1960s, the article in the journal Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment said.
According to the review the extra heat is accelerating sea level rise, intensifying extreme rain events, melting ice, adding energy to cyclones and changing where they form, and causing more intense marine heatwaves.
Marine habitats including coral reefs were being threatened and the heating meant oceans were less able to take carbon out of the atmosphere.
Even under the most ambitious scenarios for action on greenhouse gas emissions, the review said the ocean’s heating will at least double from current levels by the end of the century.
Past and future ocean warming | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00345-1#Abs1
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"Meet Mindy. A hunched back, claw-handed, and second eyelid dawning model that paints the ways the human body could change due to the effects of modern technology."
Humans may 'evolve' to have deformed bodies, second eyelid from overusing technology - Study Finds https://studyfinds.org/humans-deformed-bodies-technology/
Answer: It couldn't. That human would be far less likely to reproduce, due to severe isolation and non-sexual activity preferences. So remain optimistic and hopeful.
-Will
Humans may 'evolve' to have deformed bodies, second eyelid from overusing technology - Study Finds https://studyfinds.org/humans-deformed-bodies-technology/
"how could this creature be the result of natural selection?"
Answer: It couldn't. That human would be far less likely to reproduce, due to severe isolation and non-sexual activity preferences. So remain optimistic and hopeful.
-Will
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