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Accelerating Greenland Ice Melt 🚩
« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2022, 01:17:12 pm »
 

A 'Not Normal' Amount Of Greenland's Ice Melted Last Weekend

So much ice melted in northern Greenland last weekend that the newly melted water could cover the entire state of West Virginia with one foot of water. Yes, you read that correctly. Even given the increasingly rapid melting of Greenland Ice, the 6 billion tons of water that melted each day July 15–17 is "not normal," according to Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, told CNN.

While the UK and continental Europe sweltered under deadly heat, Kutalmis Saylam, a Univ. of Texas research scientist stationed in Greenland said, "It definitely worries me … yesterday we could wander around in our t-shirts." Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels is accelerating glacier and sea ice melt (in Greenland and elsewhere) and scientists are continuing to discover new mechanisms for ice loss that are increasing sea level rise dangers beyond what was previously predicted. "The chance of temperatures getting this hot is clearly linked to global warming," Univ. of Copenhagen climate scientist Aslak Grinsted told CNN. (CNN, CNN; Climate Signals background: Glacier and ice sheet melt, Sea level rise, Sea ice decline, Arctic amplification)

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AUGUST 5, 2022 BY ROBERT HUNZIKER


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America’s Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters


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Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s. A vicious hammering drought sequence for over two decades throughout the West threatens to bring America’s biggest water reservoir to its knees.

In a word, the implications are unspeakable. ... ...

Severe drought is now a worldwide phenomenon like never before. It’s hitting everywhere. According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, no continent is spared the ravages of severe drought, except for Antarctica. Major urban centers in South America (Santiago) and China (Guangzhou and Shenzhen) and Europe (100 Po Valley towns) are already rationing or instituting forced reduction of water usage.

Global heat is on the verge of breaking-out. According to NASA and NOAA, the planet is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, which they describe as an “unprecedented increase amid the climate crisis.” NASA describes this trend as “quite alarming.”

All of which leads to a conclusion that foolhardy use of fossil fuels has created a heat-machine. The evidence of the heat-machine is found by the fact that the planet is trapping twice as much heat as 17 years ago. That’s an off–the-charts data point that should send shivers down anyone’s spine.

For evidence of the heat-machine’s powerful impact, as of June 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was forced to adopt emergency measures to restrict drawdowns, instructing the seven Colorado River Basin states to reduce water usage by 2-4 million acre-feet over the next 18 months. As for recreational purposes, 5 of 6 boating ramps are now closed.

Such an emergency never happened throughout the dam’s 88-year history, until now. Something’s different, something’s wrong. What’s next for America’s important reservoirs? Is dead pool next? 😵

Dead pool occurs when water in a reservoir drops so low that it cannot flow downstream the dam. America’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam and Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam are interconnected and at high risk of dead pool.

The risks impact all of America, as 40 million people and 4-5 million acres of farmland depend upon the reservoirs for electric power and/or drinking and irrigation. Furthermore, the seven states of the Colorado Basin in large measure “feed the country.” California alone produces 33% of the country’s vegetables and 67% of the country’s fruits and nuts.

Lake Mead dead pool is 895 feet and minimum power pool 1,000 feet; its current elevation is 1,041 feet.

Lake Powell dead pool is 3,370 feet and minimum power pool 3,490 feet; its current elevation is 3,536 feet.

Minimum power pool is defined as water reservoir levels so low that turbines start losing capacity to produce power as they start to take on air along with water. Unless shut down, the turbines will suffer damage.

These massive reservoirs have steadily shrunk in concert with the relentless impact of the worst drought for the American West in over 1,000 years, now down to 1,041.30 feet for Lake Mead, as of July 18, 2022 (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation).

But, of even more concern, alarmingly and suddenly Lake Mead dropped 22 feet and Lake Powell dropped 40 feet in 2021 alone much, much faster than ever forecast. California, Nevada, Arizona and others must make big cuts to their allocations or dead pool will become reality. Nobody expected this so soon.

It should be noted that the reservoirs are shaped like giant martini glasses, thereby narrowing with depth. This feature, in part, explains Lake Mead dropping 22 feet in one year and Lake Powell 40 feet. Nevertheless, Lake Mead at 1,041 feet is only 41 feet away from minimum power pool and Lake Powell at 3,526 feet only 46 feet from minimum power pool. Yikes! ... ...

This horror story of failing reservoirs that provide crucial power and water for dense population centers and key agricultural regions represents an inexcusable failure by leadership in government and business to listen to warnings from scientists for four decades, ever since James Hansen , director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 1981-2013, testified before the Senate in 1988 that the greenhouse effect had been detected, indicating the climate system was changing, not for the better. That testimony was remarkably prophetic.

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🚩 Extreme Heat Uncovers Lost Villages, Ancient Ruins and Shipwrecks
« Reply #32 on: August 15, 2022, 05:52:44 pm »


August 13, 2022 Bloomberg By Kevin Simauchi

Extreme Heat Uncovers Lost Villages, Ancient Ruins and Shipwrecks


(Bloomberg) –Extreme heat 🌡️ 😓 this year has triggered wildfires, drought and melting glaciers. Less expectedly, it’s also revealed some weird and dark things about our past—shipwrecks, corpses, ghost villages, ornamental gardens and ancient cities. Here’s a look at some of those discoveries.

Roman Remains
Italy’s drought has revealed artifacts from World War II and a glimpse of life under Nero.

Months without rain and an earlier-than usual halt in flows from melting snow in the Alps depleted the River Po—Italy’s longest river—to its lowest level in 70 years. The dried-up riverbed revealed previously hidden World War II-era wreckage such as a German tank and cargo ships.

In Rome, meanwhile, drought sapped the River Tiber and unveiled a bridge that’s thought to have been built during Emperor Nero’s rule. This summer’s extremely hot and dry conditions in Italy forced the government to declare a state of emergency in July.

Spanish Ghost Village
A town stuck in the early 1990s has re-emerged in Galicia, Spain.

Aceredo, a village near Spain’s border with Portugal, was flooded in 1992 to make room for the Alto Lindoso reservoir. In February—about 30 years later—drought re-exposed the small town. Soon, tourists began flocking to see a place frozen in time.

Scientists expect Galicia to continue suffering from extreme dry spells. “Rainfall and drought patterns are always more complex, more difficult to predict scientifically,” said Jofre Carnicer, Barcelona-based climate researcher and an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment. “The risk of drought in the next decades in this area will increase.”

Grim ☠️ Discoveries
Lake Mead unveils a creepy collection of the desert’s history.

Some US reservoirs that should’ve brimmed with snowmelt in the spring instead had bathtub rings of dry dirt, including Lake Mead. The lake fell this year to a record low.

Lake Mead—the massive reservoir at the iconic Hoover Dam—has shrunk to a fraction of its former self to become a site of ghoulish curiosity.

Visitors have come across everything from sunken boats to dead bodies. “We could find everything from a missing jet ski to more bodies,” said Michael Green, an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “As the water recedes, we will find more.”

The human remains discovered at the site include a body in a barrel, according to the US National Park Service. The cause of death is under investigation.

Officials with the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department declined to comment further.

The Stern of Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance," Photo by Esther Horvath / Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust

Shackleton’s Wreckage
Scientific expedition c r a c k e d a cold case in Antarctic ice.

On Feb. 25, Antarctic sea ice cover shrank to a satellite-era record low level—which may have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in maritime history. Around that time, a crew set off on a research vessel from South Africa to the depths of the Weddell Sea, a remote area of the Antarctic coastline, to locate, survey and film the wreckage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance. The exact whereabouts of the famous explorer’s ship was long unknown; it had been trapped and crushed by thick Antarctic sea ice in 1915.

Read Also: Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance Discovered Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice

The 35-day mission was tough. The team had to navigate choppy waters and still quite a bit of frozen hazards despite ice extent being below average. Using an autonomous vehicle, the wreck was found more than 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) underwater.

Secret Garden
UK heat wave has unearthed a florid 17th century landscape.

Extreme summertime heat in Britain has scorched the south lawn at a historic home in central England, revealing a hidden 17th century garden. Broad, ornate patterns can be seen on the lawn at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

Dubbed the Great Parterre, the extensive garden dates to 1699 and was once filled with flowerbeds and paths. By 1730, the ornate landscape was grassed over and because the new lawn has shorter roots it burns more quickly. On July 26, Chatsworth logged a temperature of 38.1? (100.6?)—this was the highest on record for more than 100 years, according to information on the historic home’s site.

Mesopotamian Treasure
A Bronze-Age empire’s urban center has reappeared in Iraq.

From a dried-up area of Iraq’s Mosul reservoir this year, the ruins of an extensive, ancient city surfaced. A team of Kurdish and German archeologists rushed to investigate the site of Kemune, an ancient city on the Tigris River that flourished under the Mitanni Empire from 1550 to 1350 B.C.—during the Bronze Age.

The research team found ceramic vessels reportedly containing more than 100 cuneiform tablets. The discovery could provide more details about the end of the Mitanni-period city and the start of Assyrian rule in the region. “It is close to a miracle that cuneiform tablets made of unfired clay survived so many decades under water,” said University of Tübingen Professor Peter Pfälzner, who was part of the rescue excavations at Kemune, in a press release.

Hunting Relics

Melting glaciers have uncovered millennium-old artifacts in Norway.

In the high mountains of Norway, odd artifacts uncovered by glacial archaeologist Lars Pilø and his team at the Glacier Archaeology Program included a woolen tunic from the Iron Age as well as a Roman-style shoe and a well-preserved arrow with fletching still attached from the years 300 to 600. The arrow is a relic from a reindeer hunting site.

“With the continued melt of high mountain ice, we expect to see more sites appearing and even older finds melting out,” said Pilø, whose team has found thousands of Iron Age and the Early Medieval Period items from ice sites across Norway over the last 15 years. “We are melting back in time, as the ice retreats.”

— With assistance by Ngai Yeung
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by EMILY SCHMIDT | August 19, 2022 (California Fire pictures by AGelbert)

INSURANCE AFLAME: COVERAGE INEQUITIES RAGE AS POPULATION GROWS IN WILDFIRE REGIONS
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Northern California is currently ablaze with numerous wildfires, including the deadly McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County that burned more than 60,000 acres and killed four people.

As of August 15, the National Interagency Fire Center cites more than 5.9 million acres burned in over 42,000 fires just this year—already surpassing total acreage burned in 2019 (4.6 million) and quickly approaching that of 2021 (7.1 million). 

A 2015 study confirmed that fire seasons have lengthened by more than a month in parts of the western U.S. compared to 35 years ago. ... ...

Meanwhile, adequate insurance for wildfire damage appears to be harder to come by in recent years.

The burning risk of moving west

A 2022 report by the National League of Cities states that between 1990 and 2010, there was a 41% increase in the number of new homes built where wildfire risks are most glaring.

Dr. Susan Prichard, a forest ecologist at the University of Washington, said one reason for the migration west is the strong “cabin in the woods mystique.”

“People come into eastern Washington, and they build within a fire excluded forest. They might know that a wildfire is kind of a scary possibility,” she said. “But that green screen of privacy to make their one acre feel pretty big is enticing.”

Population change by county, 2010-2020
An estimated 45% of U.S. counties experienced an increase in population. Utah (17.6%), Texas (16.7%) and Idaho (16.5%) had the largest population increase by state.

Many counties with a high risk for wildfires saw population growth, which is dangerous for counties that already had large populations to begin with. ... ...

And even where a risk score may not be very high, expansive and deadly wildfires have and may still occur, depending on a variety of factors from year to year.

Average fire risk score of all US properties by county
Scores less than 2 represent a minimal chance of a property in that county burning in a wildfire (<1%) over 30 years. Scores of 2-5 represent a minor to moderate chance of burning (1-9%). Scores of 5-8 represent a major to severe chance of burning (9-26%) and Scores greater than 8 represent an extreme chance of burning (>26%).

Full article with Interactive Maps of USA Population Increase 2010-2020 AND Fire Risk by county:



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🚩 Extreme 🌡️➕🔥 coming for California 😬
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Record, Grid, Health-Threatening Heat Coming For California

As a massive heatwave spreads across California and the Western U.S., officials are warning of both rolling blackouts and increased wildfire activity. Temperatures as much as 20°F above normal are expected to remain through the weekend and the California electrical grid operator (CAISO) to reduce their electricity consumption to ease strain on the grid as air conditioning drives up demand. CAISO also said customers should "avoid charging electric vehicles" during periods of high strain on the grid.

Gov. Newsom also declared a state of emergency, which will allow the use of backup diesel generators and pauses requirements that ships plug into ports' electricity. While the measures will help keep the lights on, they will also increase air pollution, the danger of which is compounded by extreme heat.

Wildfires on Wednesday already forced evacuations across the state and officials worry and expect the heat will fuel increased 🔥 fire activity.

Not only does the heat dry out vegetation, it also increases the strain on firefighters doing physically demanding work while carrying heavy gear. House 🐘 GOP Whip 🦕😈 Steve Scalise criticized CAISO's statement about EV charging, which comes a week after CARB declared all new cars sold in California by 2035 must be EVs  . (Heat & Grid: LA Times $, Washington Post $, Sacramento Bee $, AP, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Bloomberg $, Reuters, New York Times $, Yahoo; State of Emergency: AP; Health risks: The Guardian; Fires: AP, Sacramento Bee $, KCRA Sacramento; EV charging: USA Today, ABC-10, Washington Examiner, Fox News; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwaves, Wildfires)

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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
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September 16, 2022 By U.S. Department of Energy (Emojies and other graphics by AGelbert)

Will Paris Succeed? Research Assesses If Governments Will Make Pledges A Reality



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Much of the world’s efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change hinge on the success of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement . A new Nature Climate Change study is the first to provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.

AGelbert NOTE: The following video, which is included in this article, is irrationally optimistic:

The research reveals that the countries with the boldest pledges are also the most likely to achieve their goals. Europe takes the lead with the strongest commitments that are also the most credible; however, findings suggest the U.S., despite having a less ambitious commitment under Paris, is not expected to meet its pledges. ... ...


A subset of survey responses from eight countries plus the EU were selected for being most relevant to climate mitigation policy. They rate Europe’s goals, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), as the most ambitious and credible. Europe is followed by China, Australia, South Africa and India. The 🦖 U.S. and 🦖 Brazil come in last place in the credibility category and second to last, after 🦖 Saudi Arabia, in terms of ambition. ... ...

Victor added, “Our results indicate that the framework of the agreement is working pretty well. The Paris Agreement is getting countries to make ambitious pledges; last year nearly all countries updated those pledges and made them even more ambitious. What’s needed next is better systems for checking to see whether countries are actually delivering what they promise.”

AGelbert NOTE: Talk is cheap. Finding out who is delivering on pledges will do NOTHING to force any country to deliver on them. WHY?  BECAUSE, thanks to MOSTLY the US, but also China, Russia, India and most of Europe, the Paris Agreement has ZERO pledge enforcement teeth. 🥺😠

Surveys where respondents were asked to rate their home country were categorized by continent to elicit the most candid responses possible. In this analysis, experts from North American countries were the most pessimistic about their pledges, both in their drive and ability to achieve climate goals in the agreement.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/15/will-paris-succeed-research-assesses-if-governments-will-make-pledges-a-reality/

AGelbert COMMENT:

IOW, The Paris Agreement falls WOEFULLY SHORT of what MUST be DONE to avoid the FOLLOWING:


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🌀🌊 pummel Puerto Rico and Alaska
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September 19, 2022

🌀🌊 pummel Puerto Rico and Alaska

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Puerto Rico Hammered By Fiona, Entire ⚡ Grid Down: Hurricane Fiona dumped catastrophic flooding on Puerto Rico over the weekend, knocking out the entire island's electrical grid and dropping as much as 30 inches :o of rain. Electricity was out across the island by 2pm ET Sunday, even before Fiona made official landfall at about 3:20 pm ET near Punta Tocon. Understanding the scope of the devastation will take days, if not weeks, as rivers ripped bridges from their moorings. Fiona hit Puerto Rico just two days before the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the deadliest disaster in the U.S. in the last century, due in part to the previous administration’s racist malfeasance. This is the second time in less than six months the entire colonial territory has been without electricity. Puerto Rico’s grid reliability has been shaky for years and last Thursday a senior VP of LUMA — the private utility that provides power to Puerto Ricans — could not provide Congress with an estimate of when it would be able to stabilize the grid and provide reliable electricity. Puerto Rico does not have voting representatives in Congress and does not have electoral votes for president. The Category 1 storm, which is still dumping rain on Puerto Rico, slammed into the Dominican Republic near Boca de Yuma early this morning and is forecast to dump up to 12 inches of rain on the eastern and northern parts of the country. (Washington Post $, Axios, AP, Yale Climate Connections, NBC Miami, Axios, NPR, CNN, Bloomberg $, Axios, USA Today, El Nuevo Dia (es), El Nuevo Dia (es), EFE (es), El Nuevo Dia (es), El Nuevo Dia (es), Bloomberg $, NBC, AccuWeather, Gizmodo, Weather Channel, ABC, The Hill; Maria Anniversary: Axios, AP, E&E $; LUMA: San Juan Daily Star; Dominican Republic: CNN, AP, Prensa Latina; Photos: Washington Post $; Projected path: Washington Post $; Climate Signals background: Hurricanes)

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"Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." – Greta Thunberg
Hurricane Fiona Hammers Puerto Rico, Entire ⚡ Grid Down 😖Hurricane Fiona dumped catastrophic flooding on Puerto Rico over the weekend, knocking out the entire island’s electrical grid and dropping as much as 30 inches of rain.

😵😱🥵

Electricity was out across the island by 2pm ET Sunday, even before Fiona made official landfall at about 3:20 pm ET near Punta Tocon. Understanding the scope of the devastation will take days, if not weeks, as rivers ripped bridges from their moorings.
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'Meteorologically Perfect Storm' Slams Alaska: A massive cyclone hammered northwestern Alaska over the weekend, sweeping north through the Bering Strait and flooding coastal communities following the worst storm in at least 50 years. The "meteorologically perfect storm," per the Washington Post, was a "worst-case scenario," NWS climatologist Brian Brettschneider told Alaska Public Media. Ocean levels in Nome were more than 9 feet above normal early Saturday with the sea pushed onshore by winds gusting over 70 mph for 11 hours.
Water levels in nearby Golovin were expected to hit as much as 13 feet :o above high tide. Thousands were without electricity, and the flooding forced evacuation of several coastal communities. “It’s just a lake everywhere," Job Hale of Napakiak, told APM. Extratropical storms hitting "early" in the season are especially dangerous compared to those that occur later in the year because there is not yet any coastal sea ice to buffer coastal communities. Alaska Public Media
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About 2 million without 🔌 or 🚰 across Caribbean in Fiona's wake
« Reply #40 on: September 20, 2022, 05:10:47 pm »
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Millions Without 🚰 Water, 🔌 Electricity In Fiona's Wake

Hurricane Fiona's destruction across the Caribbean continues to mount as the now-Category 3 hurricane barrels toward the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas after pummeling the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

Outlets reported deaths across the region, including in the French territory of Guadeloupe, with the full toll still unknown. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria's landfall, About 85% of Puerto Rican customers were without electricity Tuesday morning, and more than 837,000 customers of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority were without running water.

In the Dominican Republic, more than 1 million people had no access to running water. (Track, deaths, general coverage: AP, Washington Post $, New York Times $, Yale Climate Connections, Washington Post $; Puerto Rico electricity: El Dia Nueva (es), NPR, Utility Dive, Gizmodo, Black Wall Street Times; Puerto Rico water: NPR, El Dia Nueva (es);Dominican Republic water: CNN; Maria Anniversary: New York Times $, Gizmodo; Climate Signals background: Hurricanes, Hurricane Maria) [More coverage below.Ed.]


HURRICANE FIONA: Fiona dumps more rain on Puerto Rico; troops rescue hundreds (AP, CBS, ABC, NBC), Fiona slams Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico (AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, BBC), Hurricane Fiona to be season's first major hurricane in Atlantic (Axios, NBC), What made Hurricane Fiona so dangerous in Puerto Rico (Vox), Where Fiona goes from here as it keeps getting stronger (CNN)

PUERTO RICAN GRID : Even before Fiona, Puerto Rico’s power grid was poised for failure (Washington Post $), Three reasons Puerto Rico is in the dark (New York Times $), Puerto Rico faces 'man-made disaster' in Fiona's wake (E&E $)
PHOTOS/VIDEO: See the destruction left in Hurricane Fiona's wake (New York Times $), Puerto Rico bridge built in the wake of Hurricane Maria is swept away by Fiona floodwaters (NBC)

HELP: How to help people in Puerto Rico recover from hurricane fiona (NPR)
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🚩 The Systems Are Failing
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A 🌡️ melt spike in September? 😦
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A 🌡️ melt spike in September? 😨


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As most of the western United States baked under a prolonged, record-setting heatwave at the beginning of September, Greenland also underwent a very unusual late-season melt event.

Summit Station in Greenland, at an elevation of more than 3,200 meters (10,500 feet), surpassed the melting point for the first time on record in September on the afternoon of September 3. A strong high air pressure region parked at the southeastern edge of Greenland and drew warmer air northward along the western coast of Greenland and Baffin Bay beginning on September 2, leading to the melt event.

📢 Unprecedented in the 44 years of continuous satellite monitoring 😲, a late season heat wave and melt event occurred in Greenland from September 2 to 5.

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"Affluent people tend to know the least about how to get by on less."
« Reply #43 on: September 25, 2022, 03:12:45 pm »
I ran into a some cogent quotes yesterday that say a great deal while saying very little. I think they are worth passing along. One is an old quote you are, no doubt, familiar with; the others are hard truths most people do not take into consideration when pondering the now-upon-us-and-getting-worse-every-month Existential THREAT of Catastrophic Climate Change:

“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin ✨

"Advertising and Marketing are the polite terms in our society for Propaganda."

"Affluent people tend to know the least about how to get by on less."

When presenting an analysis like this, we get two common responses from friends and allies who share our progressive politics and ecological concerns. The first is the claim that fear appeals don’t work. The second is to agree with the assessment but advise against saying such things in public because people can’t handle it.

SOURCE: Truths We Can’t Bear Alone: Facing an ‘Inconvenient ApocalypseSeptember 16, 2022 Wes Jackson ✨ president emeritus of The Land Institute. and Robert Jensen ✨ emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Fiona Slams Into Nova Scotia With Fierce Wind, Flooding Rain
« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2022, 06:19:38 pm »


September 24, 2022 Bloomberg


Fiona Slams Into Nova Scotia With Fierce Wind, Flooding Rain

SNIPPET:

Sep 24, 2022 (Bloomberg) —Fiona, the most powerful storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, roared ashore in eastern Nova Scotia early Saturday as one of the strongest systems ever to hit the region, bringing tree-toppling winds and potentially devastating flooding.

The storm, which ravaged the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico earlier this week, made landfall on the Canso Peninsula near Hart Island with winds of 90 miles per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center. It’s expected to unleash flooding rains across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.

“This could be the worst storm they have ever seen” in Canada, said Don Keeney, a meteorologist at commercial-forecaster Maxar.

Fiona is a potent sign the Atlantic hurricane season is roaring to life after months of quiet. The Atlantic didn’t spur a single tropical storm during August. Now September has given rise to three hurricanes, with a fourth threating to form and strike Cuba and Florida next week. Forecasters have warned it will be an unusually busy season as climate change fuels more frequent and powerful storms.


Full article:

https://gcaptain.com/fiona-slams-into-nova-scotia-with-fierce-wind-flooding-rain/
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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12