The role of the Media was never so decisive in the outcome of mankind, where it can contribute to keep the profit driven culture which is driving us to extinction or act beyond the ‘established culture’ and provoke a change in the course of mankind. This topic was never so urgent.
When mankind’s distorted values and references are putting us on the edge of extinguishing life on this planet, it was never so crucial that we “take our ties off” and act as human beings. Please consider the urgency of publishing, sharing or make yourself heard through any means about the following.
POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS, RUNAWAY CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPLICATIONS.
1. “...the area of ice begins to shrink. That's not just the floating sea ice but also land-based snow areas, so the amount of really brilliant white reflection of sunlight back out into space is decreasing year-on-year. That means that the sun’s energy is being absorbed into the tundra of the frozen areas of the northern continental masses and into the open ocean where the ice was, so that the whole system is now accelerating and accelerating and accelerating and the hotter it gets the faster it gets hotter, the faster it gets hotter the more water vapor, the more water vapor the faster it gets hotter, the faster it gets hotter the less ice, the less ice the less reflections and the faster it gets hotter... You begin to get the idea? so we're seeing what we call hyper-exponential increase of temperature in the Arctic area.” - David Wasdell, ‘Arctic Feedback Dynamics’: Watch here
2. “the thinning of the ice is causing it to break up more readily in the summer and in fact what’s happening now is that the melt in the summer is greater than the growth in the winter, so all the ice that grows during the winter will melt the following summer, so you will have a summer Arctic which is actually ice free, and this will come about very soon at the rate we are going. If you extrapolate what is going on now for thickness it will bring us an ice-free summer Arctic in about 4 years from now [interview made in 2012]. So, already we should be seeing something drastic happening probably this summer.” - Prof. Peter Wadhams from the Polar Ocean Physics Group, ‘Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters’: Watch here
3. “There is a potential risk that if warming continues a greater amount of methane could be released. (...) the carbon pool is huge and the water shelf is very shallow and the warming occurs stronger than in different areas of the world’s ocean. (...) the total amount of methane in the carbon atmosphere is about 5 gigatons. The amount of carbon preserved in the form of methane in this Arctic shelf is approximately from 100’s to 1000’s gigatons. And of course it’s only 1% of that amount that is required to double the atmospheric burden of methane. To destabilise 1% of this carbon pool not much effort is needed (...) What divides this methane from the atmosphere is a very shallow water column and a weakening permafrost which is losing its ability to serve as a seal. I think it’s a matter of… it’s not a matter of thousands of years, it’s a matter of decades I think, at most hundred years… [Dr. Igor Semiletov interrupts her: It could happen any moment]” - Dr. Natalia Shakhova from the International Arctic Research Center, ‘Methane Hydrates Extended Interview Extracts’: Watch here
4. “Because elevated atmospheric carbon from fossil fuel burning is the trigger mechanism poking the climate dragon [carbon stores locked in shallow sea gas hydrates and from Arctic tundra]. The trajectory we're on is to awaken a runaway climate heating that will ravage global agricultural systems leading to mass famine, conflict. Sea level rise will be a small problem by comparison.” - Jason Box, ‘Is the climate dragon awakening?’: Read here
5. “The permafrost carbon feedback is an amplification of surface warming due to the release of large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane from thawing permafrost. There is roughly 1700 Gigatons of organic carbon or frozen organic matter in the permafrost. As we burn fossil fuels and the temperatures increase, that begins to thaw out and once it thaws out it begins to decay and release carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. This will amplify the warming [that is] due to the burning of fossil fuels.” - Dr. Kevin Scheafer, ‘Arctic Emergency: Scientists Speak’: Watch here
6. "It is the summer sea ice loss passing the point of no return leading to unstoppable catastrophic Arctic methane feedbacks sooner or later... puts us in a state of planetary emergency today." - John Nissen, Arctic Methane Emergency Group’s Chairman: Click here
7. “There are such massive methane reserves below the Arctic Ocean floor that they represent around 100 times the amount that is required to cause a Permian style major extinction event, should the methane be released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately for us, global warming has heated up the oceanic currents fed by the Gulf Stream flowing into the Arctic, causing massive destabilization of the subsea methane hydrates and fault seals and releasing increasing volumes of methane directly into the atmosphere.” - Malcolm Light, ‘Focus on Methane’: Click here
8. "three kinds of warming: Global Warming; Accelerated Warming in the Arctic; and Runaway Global Warming" - a comprehensive explanation on the Arctic Feedbacks and how those lead to Runaway Global Warming, by Sam Carana: Click here
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