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Mez's avatar

Hey Guy, thanks for continuing to keep us all informed. I must say, with stressful news nowadays from politics to climate change to economic worries...on top of my own personal health issue (on the mend, thankfully)...it is a bit overwhelming. But yes, it's important to stay informed, so thank you so much for doing that for us, I appreciate all you do.

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This latest analysis on the demise of the cryosphere addresses the peer reviewed papers Guy and I relied on indicating that we could have had a "Blue Ocean Event" in the Arctic already. I note that the Antarctic is also in a state of accelerated flux. Fortunately, those papers turned out to be incorrect, but the trajectory hasn't changed. The cliff we've careened off is above and behind us!

“Losing the remaining Arctic Sea ice and its ability to reflect incoming solar energy back to space would be equivalent to adding one trillion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, on top of the 2.4 trillion tons emitted since the Industrial Age, according to current and former researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.”

“At current rates, this roughly equates to 25 years of global CO2 emissions.”

Guy and I have been harangued because peer reviewed papers we quoted didn't fully eventuate. We follow the "Precautionary Principle". As a sailor I live by it.

https://kevinhester.live/2019/08/27/cascading-consequences-of-the-loss-of-arctic-sea-ice/

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