Climate Change News & Discussions

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I wonder if we will get above pre-ice age(glaciation) 30 million years ago like temperatures within the next couple of centuries? We'd probably have to get to at least 4c of warming but it is possible. I think 4-5 million years ago is very likely.

You'd think June is all but assured to be number one in the giss and noaa database, but we will see.

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This man is evil, and I hope he and his ilk are made to appear in Nuremberg-style "Crimes Against Nature and Humanity" trials in the coming decades. That's assuming we survive with civilisation intact enough to retain a functioning court system.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66108553

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Research shows shrinking Arctic glaciers are unearthing a new source of methane
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-arctic-gl ... thane.html
by University of Cambridge

As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, finds new research published in Nature Geoscience.

The study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University Center in Svalbard, Norway, identified large stocks of methane gas leaking from groundwater springs unveiled by melting glaciers.

The research suggests that these methane emissions will likely increase as Arctic glaciers retreat and more springs are exposed. This, and other methane emissions from melting ice and frozen ground in the Arctic, could exacerbate global warming.

"These springs are a considerable, and potentially growing, source of methane emissions—one that has been missing from our estimations of the global methane budget until now," said Gabrielle Kleber, lead author of the research who is from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences.

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Reeling Arctic glaciers are leaving bubbling methane in their wake, scientists warn
Source: WaPo

Scientists working in one of the world’s fastest-warming places found that rapidly retreating glaciers are triggering the release into the atmosphere of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that causes global temperatures to rise.


The releases are triggered as glaciers across the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, rapidly retreat and leave behind newly exposed land, scientists said. If the phenomenon is found to be more widespread across the Arctic — where temperatures are quickly rising and glaciers melting — the emissions could have global implications.

As the Svalbard glaciers move and land is left behind, groundwater beneath the Earth seeps upward and forms springs. In 122 out of 123 of them, the scientists found, the water is filled with apparently ancient methane gas at very high concentrations that bubble upward under pressure. The amount of emissions these springs are emitting are not well-quantified.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... rc=nl_most

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This but with Earth.

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Is beach season there?

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Antarctic ice levels see "massive decrease" in June.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/antarct ... -1.6901861

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These are the same people that want to gut government, slash investment and let people fucking die. They offer no solutions and the fact that 45% of this country supports them is truly scary to the core.

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