Arctic sea ice area reached a record low of 2.87746 million square km on the 230th day of 2012, as illustrated on the image below by The Cryosphere Today.  Below the sea surface temperature anomaly for August 20, 2012, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   The poster forms part of the updated presentation Why act now, and how? |
Monday, August 20, 2012
Record low sea ice area
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Was looking at graph of yearly ice area and because it is middle of night and I'm tired the graphs appeared as double, half out of sync with the near sign wave form of ice area superimposed. and I thought the flat line of average wants to be the middle not the flat line of sea ice area or of volume that will start showing up as complete melt off is attained.. So the meaning of tired eyes not focusing, for whatever reason brings to mind that a companion hand out to the one of Earth's doom needs to be available match.
ReplyDeleteSo people can see benefit of taking action on what it will mean to life on Earth and to kids..
Had been looking at animated sea ice volume change from 79-2012 and noting speed up of change and flattening of lower portion of curve and how near bottom of Zero it was. http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2012/08/arctic-sea-ice-volume-gif-by-tamino.html
It's hard to sleep if you think Earth is dying and there is still a chance to do something about it. But the scale of speed of change needed is increasing exponentially as the world
continues on present path.
Act of God ,the law definition would allow alteration of contract law and valuation of money to bring enterprise and finance in line with what is needed to make valiant attempt at keeping Earth alive and it could make change possible if applied on global scale with relative suddenness, having, by lets say this post, given fair warning to allow fat cats to invest in what will be the industries of future.
Initial awareness of what's going on with heat build up was tampered with, with Scientists email hack and spin just prior to Climate Summit in Copenhagen, with Bush admin alteration of scientific findings by unqualified underlings for instance. It's much bigger than that and in effect worldwide and still going on. For instance no mention in recent article on Arctic Sea ice record minimum on BBC of the weight of the CH4 Extinction event being ignited.
ReplyDeleteStopping the wars of the world and getting real action going to try and head off the Doom Chart means mankind facing up to reality and it involves politics.
Lincoln said that with 'sentiment all things are possible and without it isn't. I left out the 'public' from public sentiment etc because it seems a sinister 1% wants to be the public and/or mob.
So Sam it isn't that I want to supplant, or take away from your hard work and expertise in Science and what's important and doable with technology that I suggest in strongest way perhaps a worldwide adoption or tapping of the essence of 'Rule of Law mechanism giving capability to alter, to justify alteration of standing contract law from when in enlightenment nations and technological advancement proceeded' - but rather to augment and enhance the points that you make and to add to them the snippets of political maneuvering like sunset provisions and automatic triggering of things like rates of taxation or something else. -Fact is the mob and the followers are in trouble. The whole Earth is at stake and dying.
Thanks Dale. Existing laws could be overruled in case of a declaration of emergency, as a way to speed up necessary changes. The Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) calls for a declaration of emergency, as described in the post Discussion: Should patent law apply to geo-engineering?
DeleteOK I agree to large degree and on patent law but what I'm suggesting is much, much larger; essentially the creation of an open system where now a closed system exists. A world (closed) system of finance presently zeroed in on increasing debt or contractual obligation and totally dependent on perpetual monetary expansion. I want to shift that so the value of money is proportional to net worth of its use in investment and enterprise, large and small on keeping the Earth alive. So the whole of Earth's human civilization has a tendency to benefit the common good defined as a living Earth with Nature's open systems alive.
DeleteThat's open, as in defined as different than that of a closed system of thermodynamics where heat always increases like life in a bottle, fragmented or away from the whole of the open system, the open window to outside and a means of cooling off.. A means to correct naturally and hold biologic systems intact which have evolved to enable Sea pH to tend to 8.23 and O2 to remain stable relatively at 21% along with heat moderate in mean value and extremes so Earth remains suitable for living things to find their place. For Nature to be big enough to be open system capable of healing, of helping itself.. Communications net and active participation tapping industry, science and technology will be needed to pull things back from the brink but its an error to think it is only tech that belongs in decision because the common person, farmer, the worker can help sequester carbon in soil and do things to help reduce negative footprint both in carbon emissions and on peace and fairness in the world and on what Nature really needs..
A high degree of danger needs bold actions to counter act and bravery, bravery given by hope of remaining alive through bold action now to alter current world economics and system of monetary valuation on the largest of scales and that needs to take place suddenly to avoid being undercut. Like as what was done with Montreal Accord on HCFC22 manufacture to replace CFC12 causing nations and industry to notice and count as greenhouse gas reduction credit profit the super greenhouse gas created in HCFC22 manufacture. Blackmail and undue profit taking along with needless creation of refrigerant resulted.. It showed the world a can of corrupting worm turns and holds or depends on profit over moral obligation. Corporate monetary worth rather than what benefits the common good and Earth alive.
I want an equally large change to commerce and high finance to counter global warming and to set the stage for grand showdown in which it is my contention the power of will to live can trump, can turn the fate of the planet from extinction. Really I am attempting to wage war on the way we live in the world so that global warming stops going runaway. -so the things we do sort of wind up sort of naturally support the preservation of Nature and counteract expansion of heat and loss of biodiversity along with Earth's vast ecosystem services. I want full out system alteration world wide capable of naturally supporting a human tendency to help stop runaway and to profit in a sustainable way. A beautiful way that is fun and peaceful.