The fact that NASA and Gavin Schmidt pretend to not understand the dynamics of abrupt climate change says more about their lack of integrity than their scientific acumen. They know exactly what is unfolding with regard to all the feedback loops we have triggered; they just don't want to admit how miserably they have failed, unlike Guy and me. We shouldn't be surprised that a violent patriarchy underestimated climate sensitivity.
Let's remember that Schmidt was in his senior role the last time that Donald Trump was president, they didn't have any issues with each other, clearly neither can be trusted.
Guy mentioned the emissions from the genocide in Gaza which has now spread to include the West Bank, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iran. I partially covered that in my blog piece titled "Warmongering and the Climate Crisis". Aljazeera published an article saying the emissions from the genocide are more than 20 small countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand.
You'll never hear the corporate go to scientists mention how all this warmongering is driving the acceleration of chaos.
Loss of Albedo or reflectivity is mentioned because it is one of the most potent of the six dozen feedback loops that we know we have triggered.
According to the conservative scientists at the Scripps institute a Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic will be equivalent to 25 years of current emissions.
Thank you for your clarity in reporting the facts, Kevin. The motto of the country of my birth ought to be “Warmongers are Us!”
Thank you for continuing to share and add to my work. Your collegiality is stronger and substantially more professional than that of my former colleagues and friends at three universities.
Thanks, Guy, for the climate piece and all of your work. You mentioned the now 8.2B humans' contribution to global heating, but noone ever mentions the 11,000 BTUs minimum produced daily by our metabolism, so 11 X 10-3 X 8.2 X 10-9, or 19.2 X 10-12, we add daily. Also, the heat energy absorption by the 1.2 trillion tons of global ice melting annually, 3.3 billion daily, needs to be factored in, not to forget that mega-storms function to exhaust earth bound heat energy into outer space and we'd burn the hell up were it not for all the cyclones, hurricanes, etc. pushing heat energy into outer space. Interesting that heat energy on the surface of land and sea appears to be dipping below 2024 levels at present. BTW, cloud cover heat retention article just published, showing water vapor as a prominent GHG ("Scientists find cloud feedbacks amplify warming more than previously thought"-NOAA 1-24-25). Your thoughts? Gregg
Storms are one among many means for Earth to release energy, hence seek balance. I have another script and video in the works about the cloud feedback issue.
With regard to the Cloud Feedback loop Sam Carana has done studious work in that field. I understand that you have some reservations with Sam's analysis sometimes but some of the equations are important.
The fact that NASA and Gavin Schmidt pretend to not understand the dynamics of abrupt climate change says more about their lack of integrity than their scientific acumen. They know exactly what is unfolding with regard to all the feedback loops we have triggered; they just don't want to admit how miserably they have failed, unlike Guy and me. We shouldn't be surprised that a violent patriarchy underestimated climate sensitivity.
Let's remember that Schmidt was in his senior role the last time that Donald Trump was president, they didn't have any issues with each other, clearly neither can be trusted.
Guy mentioned the emissions from the genocide in Gaza which has now spread to include the West Bank, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iran. I partially covered that in my blog piece titled "Warmongering and the Climate Crisis". Aljazeera published an article saying the emissions from the genocide are more than 20 small countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand.
You'll never hear the corporate go to scientists mention how all this warmongering is driving the acceleration of chaos.
Loss of Albedo or reflectivity is mentioned because it is one of the most potent of the six dozen feedback loops that we know we have triggered.
According to the conservative scientists at the Scripps institute a Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic will be equivalent to 25 years of current emissions.
https://kevinhester.live/2022/05/13/warmongering-and-the-climate-crisis/
There is a great video explainer of Albedo embedded below:
https://kevinhester.live/2019/08/27/cascading-consequences-of-the-loss-of-arctic-sea-ice/
Thank you for your clarity in reporting the facts, Kevin. The motto of the country of my birth ought to be “Warmongers are Us!”
Thank you for continuing to share and add to my work. Your collegiality is stronger and substantially more professional than that of my former colleagues and friends at three universities.
Thanks, Guy, for the climate piece and all of your work. You mentioned the now 8.2B humans' contribution to global heating, but noone ever mentions the 11,000 BTUs minimum produced daily by our metabolism, so 11 X 10-3 X 8.2 X 10-9, or 19.2 X 10-12, we add daily. Also, the heat energy absorption by the 1.2 trillion tons of global ice melting annually, 3.3 billion daily, needs to be factored in, not to forget that mega-storms function to exhaust earth bound heat energy into outer space and we'd burn the hell up were it not for all the cyclones, hurricanes, etc. pushing heat energy into outer space. Interesting that heat energy on the surface of land and sea appears to be dipping below 2024 levels at present. BTW, cloud cover heat retention article just published, showing water vapor as a prominent GHG ("Scientists find cloud feedbacks amplify warming more than previously thought"-NOAA 1-24-25). Your thoughts? Gregg
Storms are one among many means for Earth to release energy, hence seek balance. I have another script and video in the works about the cloud feedback issue.
With regard to the Cloud Feedback loop Sam Carana has done studious work in that field. I understand that you have some reservations with Sam's analysis sometimes but some of the equations are important.
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/search/label/clouds%20tipping%20point
Those storms can also release methane, it might be worth including that detail in the video:
This is 12 years old:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24639-arctic-storms-speed-up-release-of-methane-plumes/
Tracking the interactions among self-reinforcing feedback loops is a full-time job!