Latest Updates on Climate Change

09/2014

• "New reports show that the world's oceans and forests are absorbing less of our carbon dioxide because we're reaching an over saturation point…." - Scary! Our Oceans and Forests Can't Absord Anymore of Our Carbon Dioxide: Click here
• "from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems." - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate; by Noemi Klein: Click here
• "To understand these record high global temperatures, it is useful to consider the broader paleo-climate context. In this context, the global temperature difference between 1880 and the last ice age was about 5 degrees Celsius. So the current temperature departure, driven by human greenhouse gas emissions, is equal to about 1/5 the difference between the 19th century and an ice age, but on the side of hot." - Earth Surface During August of 2014 Was Hottest Ever Recorded: Click here
• "Though storms, on aggregate, dump 8 percent more rain, and evaporation sucks 8 percent more moisture up from the lands and ground, the uneven nature of weather results in a powerful amplification of extreme events. So what you end up with is both far more powerful severe storm systems and far more intense and rapidly asserting drought conditions." - Hothouse Rains for Kashmir: Worst Flooding in More Than 60 Years Puts 450 Villages Under Water: Click here
• "The current rate of ocean acidification appears unprecedented at least over the last 300 million years, according to an analysis in the report." - Record Greenhouse Gas Levels Impact Atmosphere and Oceans: Click here
• "new data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat mission shows that the Greenland ice sheet, equal to 22 feet above sea level rise, has more than doubled its meltwater output in the last five years" - Greenland 2014: Follow the Water: Click here
• "One of the most feared consequences of anthropogenic global warming is the thawing of permafrost regions. A study in Science magazine warns that “even slightly warmer temperatures [less than anticipated in coming years] could start melting permafrost, which in turn threatens to trigger the release of huge amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in ice,” with possible “fatal consequences” for the global climate." - Are We Approaching the End of Human History?: Click here
• “There's no carbon budget, there's just a huge debt of CO2 to be removed from the atmosphere and the oceans. Comprehensive and effective action must be taken to stop run-away warming.” - Methane levels threaten to skyrocket: Click here
• "Waters in the Arctic Ocean continue to warm up. Very warm waters from the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean are invading the Arctic Ocean". - Antarctica linked to Arctic: Click here
• "Following the article are more than 300 links to recent authoritative reports and updates about the current mass extinction" - The World Wide Web's Most Comprehensive Source of Information on the Current Mass Extinction: Click here
• "Human-caused climate change greatly amplifies the conditions that lead to more intense rainfall and flooding events. For each 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the hydrological cycle intensifies by 8 percent. So evaporation events and rainfall events grow ever more intense as the world warms." - Hothouse Rains for Kashmir: Worst Flooding in More Than 60 Years Puts 450 Villages Under Water: Click here
• "Considering all the talk about global warming, peak oil, carbon divestment, and renewable energy, you'd think that oil consumption in the United States would be on a downward path. As it happens, the opposite is occurring." - Oil Is Back! A Global Warming President Presides Over a Drill-Baby-Drill United States: Click here
• "The whole northern hemisphere is now covered by a thickening atmospheric methane global warming veil that is spreading southwards at about 1 km a day and it already totally envelopes the United States. A giant hole in the equatorial ozone layer has also been discovered in the west Pacific which acts like an elevator transferring methane from lower altitudes to the stratosphere where it already forms a dense equatorial global warming stratospheric band that is spreading into the Polar regions." - Arctic News: State of Extreme Emergency: Click here
• "The current, rampant pace of human emission is now at least six times faster than at any time during Earth’s geological past. But on our current path, that rate could exceed 20 times that seen during any of the previous worst hothouse extinction events." - No More ‘Hiatus’ — Human Emission to Completely Overwhelm Nature by 2030: Click here

08/2014

• "By early August, the “dead zone” was back: more than a cubic mile of oxygen-depleted water in which nothing — fish, crab nor shrimp — can survive." - Large ‘dead zone’ signals more problems for Chesapeake Bay: Click here
• "the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica’s glaciers are melting at record pace, dumping some 500 CUBIC KILOMETERS of ice into the oceans every year, TWICE AS MUCH in the case of Greenland and THREE TIMES AS MUCH in the case of Antarctica, BY COMPARISON WITH 2009 – yes, you read right, we are talking about a very short period for such a dramatic increase in ice loss – should have made more news headlines and not just the science pages." - Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space: Click here
• "If current greenhouse gas emissions trends continue, the odds of a megadrought hitting some parts of the Southwest is a 50-50 proposition. And the odds of a decade-long drought – like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s or Southwest drought of the 1950s – are around 90 percent" - Climate Change Ups Odds of a Southwest Megadrought: Click here
• "The latter part of the 20th century saw rapid global warming as more heat stayed near the surface. In the 21st century, surface warming slowed as more heat moved into deeper oceans." - Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration: Click here
• "very high mean global methane levels on August 28, 2014, while methane readings as high as 2561 ppb were recorded on that day." - Warming waters threaten to trigger methane eruptions from Arctic Ocean seafloor: Click here
• "As of today, Antarctic heat anomalies were still in the very well above average range at +2.94 C. Most of the excess heat centered over the now destabilized and seaward spreading glaciers of West Antarctica which experienced extraordinary temperatures in the range of 15 to 20 degrees Celsius above average." - World Ocean Temps Spike to +1.26 Positive Anomaly as Antarctic Polar Amplification Ramps Up: Click here
• "The planet's two largest ice sheets – in Greenland and Antarctica – are now being depleted at an astonishing rate of 120 cubic miles each year (...)  the rate of loss of ice from the two regions has more than doubled since 2009, revealing the dramatic impact that climate change is beginning to have on our world." - 'Incredible' rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists: loss from Greenland doubles in just 5 years; The Guardian: Click here
• "The three molten cores at Fukushima plant, each weighing a hundred tons, are so radioactive, that no one can approach them, including robots, which melt down immediately, (...) And no one ever will, and the contamination will go on for hundreds of years.” - Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician and 1985 Nobel Peace Prize nominee: Click here
• "This immense volume of emission is probably more than 6-10 times faster than at any period of the geological record. (...) The human greenhouse gas emission is, therefore, likely on track to be the worst greenhouse gas disaster the Earth system has ever experienced." - Leaked UN Report Shows Failure to Swiftly Act on Climate Change Results in Catastrophic Harm: Click here
• "I can't imagine politicians and CEO's don't know what I know. These are people who accumulate power based on their ability to access and use information. I have no idea what they are doing beyond moving to the southern hemisphere, where habitat for humans almost certainly will persist longer than in the northern hemisphere." - Climate Change and the Methane Crisis: An Interview With Dr. Guy McPherson: Click here
• "We've been hiding what's going on from ourselves: A high-carbon future is being locked in by the world's capital investments," - Existing Power Plants Will Spew 300 Billion More Tons of Carbon Dioxide During Use: Click here
• "the Permian Extinction. A hothouse event that killed 95% of life in the oceans and 70% of life on land. And what humans are now doing to the Earth’s airs and waters through CO2 and related greenhouse gas emissions may well be shockingly similar." - Methane Monster' Grumbling Goes Global: 570 Methane Plumes Discovered on Atlantic Ocean Sea Floor: Click here
• "But most European countries don’t have a lot of available forest left to cut down. So they’re importing our (U.S.) forests, especially from the South." - Europe is Burning Our Forests for "Renewable" Energy. Wait, What?: Click here
• "There is already enough methane and CO2 in the atmosphere for the temperature to go past the temperature of the Permian mass extinction." - Climate Change and the Methane Crisis: Q&A With Harold Hensel: Click here
• "A particularly sensitive region is the shallow East Siberian Arctic Shelf which contains numerous fault zones and extends out into deeper Arctic waters as well as slope structures near the Gakkel Ridge. The ESAS also contains one of the Arctic’s largest stores of methane, estimated at 500 gigatons." - The Methane Monster Grows New Teeth: Sea Level Rise Found to Cause Slope Collapse,Tsunamis, Methane Release: Click here
• "Myth 7: There is time for an orderly, non-disruptive reduction in emissions within the current political-economic paradigm" - in 'Dangerous Climate Change: Myths and Reality': Click here
• "Let us be clear: if these methane escapes continue to grow, the risk is they could drive the planet into accelerated or "runaway" global warming. The last time this happened, 50 million years ago, global temperatures rose by an estimated 9 or 10 degrees. In the present context, that would mean the end of the world's food supply" - 'Beware The Dragon Of Runaway Climate Change'; The Brisbane Times: Click here
• "...the calm and tranquil Holocene has now been replaced by the Anthropocene - heralding a return to a volatile and destructive climate. Truly, we have woken an angry beast from its slumber." - The 'pre-Holocene' climate is returning - and it won't be fun: Click here
• Tunnels As Tall As The Eiffel Tower Discovered Under Antarctic Ice Sheets: Click here
• Canadian Government Orders Scientists Not To Disclose Extent Of Polar Melting: Click here
• Amazon Rain-forest Wildfires Scorch Through Drought-Plagued Brazil During Southern Hemisphere Winter: Click here 
• Persistently High Methane Concentrations over Beaufort Sea: Click here
• July 2014 Shows Hottest Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record as New Warm Kelvin Wave Forms: Click here
• Solar Farm Abandoned Amid Uncertainty Over Renewable Energy Target; The Sydney Morning Herald: Click here
• Fossilized marine plankton tell the tale of the end Permian mass extinction: Click here
• The Keystone Pipeline, Arctic Methane Eruptions, and Why Human Fossil Fuel Burning Must Swiftly Halt: Click here
• Siberian Crater Mystery Solved: Click here
• Climate News Update 08.11.14 | Methane Monster "Insane Level of Disaster" | Dr. Guy McPherson: Watch here
• Horrific Methane Eruptions in East-Siberian Sea: Click here
• Terrible Thunderstorms of Fire Over Canada as Arctic Territory Continues Record Burn: Watch here
• Apocalypse 4 Real - Global Methane Tracking - SWERUS C-3: More Arctic Methane Found, and Something Worse: Click here
• The Arctic Methane Monster Rapid Rise: Watch here
• The Really Scary Thing About Those Jaw-Dropping Siberian Craters: Click here

07/2014

• SWERUS-C3: First observations of methane release from Arctic Ocean hydrates: Click here
• ‘Defaunation in the Anthropocene’; Sciencemag: Click here
• Rejecting Green Capitalism: Click here
• Methane rising through fractures by Harold Hensel: Click here
• Second Mysterious Hole Found in Yamal Russia: Click here
• Synchronization of North Atlantic, North Pacific preceded abrupt warming, end of ice age: Click here
• Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event: Click here
• Everything you need to know about Mass Extinction, Sea Level Rise and Amplification: Click here
• ‘Canadian Floods Wreck 5.5 Million Acres of Cropland’: Click here
• Global warming amplifier: Rising water vapor in upper troposphere to intensify climate change: Click here
• ‘Smoke Blankets North America’: Click here
• How The Pentagon is Bracing For Societal Collapse: Watch here

06/2014

• Dr Natalia Shakhova Interview: Part 1- Methane Hydrates & Stability of East Siberian Arctic Shelf: Watch here
• Professor Peter Wadhams Discusses Subsea Permafrost Methane Releases And Impacts on Civilisation: Watch here
• Neil deGrasse Tyson - Climate Change: Watch here
• Guy McPherson about ‘CO2’; Wyoming: Watch here
• First evidence of widespread active methane seepage in the Southern Ocean, off the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia: Click here

05/2014

• David Suzuki - The war on climate scientists: Watch here

04/2014

• Human Extinction in our Lifetime?’ Dr. Guy McPherson at ‘Great Minds’ RT series: Watch here (PART 1) and Watch here (PART 2)
• ‘Vanishing fauna’; PDF by Sacha Vignieri: Click here
• The role of Latent Heat of Fusion in Global Warming by Anthony Marr: Click here

03/2014

• "New research indicates that for each degree that the Earth's temperature rises, the amount of methane entering the atmosphere from microorganisms dwelling in lake sediment and freshwater wetlands -- the primary sources of the gas -- will increase several times." - A more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, methane emissions will leap as Earth warms: Click here

2013

• Ice cores stretching back hundreds of millions of years reveal sudden rises of Carbon in the atmosphere during the Paleocene- eocene extinction event. Only methane hydrates release can explain such sudden rise in Carbon and temperature. - Arctic Methane Catastrophe: Click here
• Worrisome Arctic ocean Methane leaks: Click here
• Arctic Ocean leaking Methane at alarming rate, researchers say: Click here
• ‘Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb’ documentary: Watch here
• Dr. Charles Miller - The Arctic ice melt: Watch here
• ‘Last Hours’, short series with Thom Hartmann: Watch here
• Paul Beckwith: Rapid Climate Change in the Arctic and Implications (Eschaton): Watch here
• Coastal Antarctic Permafrost Melting Faster Than Expected: Click here
• David Suzuki - Time is running out: Ecology or Economics?: Watch here
• Huge Methane leak in Arctic detected by Discovery News: Click here

2012

• "The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History"; Dr. Richard Alley: Watch here
• Scientists close in on the cause of Arctic Methane leaks: Click here
• Arctic methane leaks threaten climate: Click here
• Dan Miller - Extreme Climate Change: Watch here
• Geologic Methane Seeps Along Boundaries Of Arctic Permafrost Thaw And Melting Glaciers: Click here

2011

• "The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and the banking and investment industry who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades." - The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda & the Architects of Genocide | Part I: Click here
• “Abrupt Planetary Catastrophic Global Warming. It’s happened before. We have the planet headed that way again.” – A November 2010 statement by the Geological Society of London regarding catastrophic climate change and methane hydrates - During the PETM extinction event that took place 55 million years ago, the oceans were warming just as they are today:.Click here
• Triassic Extinction Caused By Methane Gas From ea Floor, Research Finds: Click here‘
• Fast Disappearing Sea Ice’; Professor Peter Wadhams: Watch here
• Arctic Methane Alarm: Click here
• Dr. Richard Milne - Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Separating Skepticism from Denial: Watch here
• ‘Three paths to near-term human extinction’; Dr. Guy McPherson: Click here
• Methane Linked To Seismic Activity In The Arctic: Click here

2010

• "Arctic seabeds are belching massive quantities of methane, according to a new study that says ocean permafrost is a huge and largely overlooked source of the powerful greenhouse gas, which has been linked to global warming." - National Geographic: Arctic Sea Belching Tons of Methane: Click here
• Methane releases from Arctic shelf may be much larger and faster than anticipated by NSF (National Science Foundation): Click here
• Methane causes vicious cycle in Global Warming: Click here

2009

• James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss(on TED): Watch here
• Dr. Richard Alley - Climate change future: Watch here

2008

• "Today we're conducting a global-scale experiment with Earth's climate system,(...) Much the same experiment was done 635 million years ago, and the outcome is preserved in the geologic record. We see that strong forcing on the climate, not unlike the current carbon dioxide forcing, results in the activation of latent controls in the climate system that, once initiated, change climate to a completely different state." - Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change: Click here

2007

• Killer in Our Midst: Methane Catastrophes in Earth’s Past… and Near Future? (book): Click here

2003

• ‘Methane: The Great Dying?’ - Astrobiology Magazine: Click here