Climate Change

[dutchamerican]

By the way this whole thing reminds me. I sent u a message awhile ago asking for some help and wanted to ask ur advise on a few things since u "claim" to be a medical doctor. And u never responded. But as soon as I question ur climate change agenda...ur very quick to answer arent u? That is a typical fake liberal my friends Has anyone seen ur medical documents proving ur a real medical doctor? I mean since ACT like a liberal but are really just trying to dictate how people are and what they believe, why should I believe ur a real medical doctor? I dont believe anything that comes out of u fake liberals mouths. U act liberal but wanna curb the population and kill babies and take away guns u care more about animals than u do humans. U can see that by ur avatar. Haha save the elephants? What about the starving women and children? Nooo thats a good thing to u cause eventually they will die and thats the answer for people like u to end the global warming problem. Maybe we should just kill billions of people to solve the problem just admit it thats what u people really want. Ur facist hitlarians and totalitarians that just want to dictate to everyone else how it should be. People like u are the real problem with this planet. Go eat some grass u human hater.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

By the way this whole thing reminds me. I sent u a message awhile ago asking for some help and wanted to ask ur advise on a few things since u "claim" to be a medical doctor. And u never responded. But as soon as I question ur climate change agenda...ur very quick to answer arent u? That is a typical fake liberal my friends Has anyone seen ur medical documents proving ur a real medical doctor? I mean since ACT like a liberal but are really just trying to dictate how people are and what they believe, why should I believe ur a real medical doctor? I dont believe anything that comes out of u fake liberals mouths. U act liberal but wanna curb the population and kill babies and take away guns u care more about animals than u do humans. U can see that by ur avatar. Haha save the elephants? What about the starving women and children? Nooo thats a good thing to u cause eventually they will die and thats the answer for people like u to end the global warming problem. Maybe we should just kill billions of people to solve the problem just admit it thats what u people really want. Ur facist hitlarians and totalitarians that just want to dictate to everyone else how it should be. People like u are the real problem with this planet. Go eat some grass u human hater.

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ― Plato

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Baked Alaska
If the Last Frontier is the canary in the climate coal mine, we’re in trouble.
http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...ge_is_already_affecting_alaska_s_weather.html

Earlier this winter, Monica Zappa packed up her crew of Alaskan sled dogs and headed south, in search of snow. “We haven’t been able to train where we live for two months,” she told me.

Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, which Zappa calls home, has been practically tropical this winter. Rick Thoman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Alaska, has been dumbfounded. “Homer, Alaska, keeps setting record after record, and I keep looking at the data like, Has the temperature sensor gone out or something?“

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Entering the Middle Miocene — CO2 Likely to Hit 404 Parts Per Million by May
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.c...2-likely-to-hit-404-parts-per-million-by-may/

As of March 9, 2015, atmospheric CO2 levels had reached 401.84 parts per million. Already a level testing the Pliocene-Miocene boundary, this measure will continue to increase through the rest of March, on into April, and keep rising until middle or late May. At that point, global CO2 levels will have reached around 404 parts per million. At least the highest levels seen in the last 3 million years and possibly the highest levels seen in 15 to 18 million years.

If the greater portion of this range is correct, then we are now breathing air that none among our species or even our hominid relatives have ever breathed since their setting foot on this world.

The Keeling Curve
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Cato Institute!

Global Warming: Good for Bad and Bad for Good?
http://www.cato.org/blog/global-warming-good-bad-bad-good

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Leaked Email Reveals Who's Who List of Climate Denialists
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...-oreskes-fred-singer-marc-morano-steve-milloy


Q&A: 'Merchants of Doubt' Author on the Origins & Persistence of Climate Denialism
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...-author-origins-persistence-climate-denialism

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide stalled in 2014
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/news/2015/march/global-energy-related-emissions-of-carbon-dioxide-stalled-in-2014.html

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not tied to an economic downturn.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

'Find a new way to tell the story' - how the Guardian launched its climate change campaign
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...guardian-launched-its-climate-change-campaign

Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity. Yet journalism has struggled for two decades to tell a story that doesn’t leave the public feeling disheartened and disengaged.

This podcast series lets you behind the scenes as the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, and team set out to find a new narrative. Recording as we go, you’ll hear what works, as well as our mistakes. Is there a new way to make the world care?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Globe? Warm? Who, Me?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/opinion/gail-collins-globe-warm-who-me.html

It’s one thing to be a climate-change denier like Senator James Inhofe, the (gasp) chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who brought a snowball into the Senate to demonstrate his conviction that the Earth is not getting warmer. It’s another to pretend as if it’s O.K. to dodge the whole question.

If you’re a presidential candidate, the only three intellectually honest answers to global warming queries are:

“My thoughts about this are similar to those of my intellectual role model, James Inhofe.”

“Yes, climate change is real, and I will give you my plan for reducing carbon emissions just as soon as my six biggest campaign donors finish slamming the door on their way out.”

“Sure, it’s real. But by the time Miami goes under water, I’ll be dead. So who cares?”

Or you can tell people that the shark might or might not be in the water, and might or might not be hungry, but that this is no time to stop swimming.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Map: Comparing the Northern Sea Route with the Suez Canal

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Accelerating Global Warming? NASA Shows February of 2015 was Second Hottest on Record
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.c...nuary-february-of-2015-was-hottest-on-record/


Far Worse than Being Beaten with a Hockey Stick: Michael Mann, Our Terrifying Greenhouse Gas Overburden and Heating the Earth by + 2 C by 2036
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.c...rburden-and-heating-the-earth-by-2-c-by-2036/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Keep it in the ground
Join us in urging the world's two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...n-the-ground-guardian-climate-change-campaign

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ting-fossil-fuels-overwhelming-climate-change

The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics.

Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground, along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.

If only science were enough.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Global Warming’s Six Americas’ Perceptions of the Health Risks
http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/global-warmings-six-americas-perceptions-of-the-health-risks/

This report is the seventh we have issued on the Six Americas – six segments within the American public that are characterized by distinct patterns of global warming beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors: the Alarmed (13%), Concerned (31%), Cautious (23%), Disengaged (7%), Doubtful (13%), and Dismissive (13%). Descriptions of the six groups can be found in the Introduction.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Brienen RJW, Phillips OL, Feldpausch TR, Gloor E, Baker TR, et al. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. Nature. 2015;519(7543):344-8. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7543/full/nature14283.html

Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong global carbon sink over recent decades with a substantial fraction of this sink probably located in the tropics, particularly in the Amazon.

Nevertheless, it is unclear how the terrestrial carbon sink will evolve as climate and atmospheric composition continue to change.

Here we analyse the historical evolution of the biomass dynamics of the Amazon rainforest over three decades using a distributed network of 321 plots. While this analysis confirms that Amazon forests have acted as a long-term net biomass sink, we find a long-term decreasing trend of carbon accumulation.

Rates of net increase in above-ground biomass declined by one-third during the past decade compared to the 1990s. This is a consequence of growth rate increases levelling off recently, while biomass mortality persistently increased throughout, leading to a shortening of carbon residence times.

Potential drivers for the mortality increase include greater climate variability, and feedbacks of faster growth on mortality, resulting in shortened tree longevity.

The observed decline of the Amazon sink diverges markedly from the recent increase in terrestrial carbon uptake at the global scale and is contrary to expectations based on models.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Stop Talking About Climate Change, House Republicans Tell the Pentagon and CIA
https://news.vice.com/article/stop-...e-house-republicans-tell-the-pentagon-and-cia

 

[Michael Scally MD]

On February 25, 2015, Arctic sea ice extent appeared to have reached its annual maximum extent, marking the beginning of the sea ice melt season. This year’s maximum extent not only occurred early; it is also the lowest in the satellite record. However, a late season surge in ice growth is still possible. NSIDC will post a detailed analysis of the 2014 to 2015 winter sea ice conditions in early April. http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2015/03/2015-maximum-lowest-on-record/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Earth at risk in new epoch ruled by destructive humans
http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/earth-at-risk-in-new-epoch-ruled-by-destructive-humans/

Paul Cruzten, the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany, and http://tul.academia.edu/StanislawWaclawek, researcher in the Department of Nanomaterials in Natural Sciences at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic, make their case in the paper published in the new http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cdem.2014.19.issue-1-2/cdem-2014-0001/cdem-2014-0001.xml?format=INT..

The article claims that the negative impact of the human footprint ensures a gradual destruction of the Earth, “Our survival fully depends on us,” Cruzten says.

The scientists claim that there is overwhelming evidence that what they term “man, the eroder” now transforms all Earth system processes. They offer this list in support of their argument:

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  • Excessively rapid climate change, so that ecosystems cannot adapt.
  • The Arctic ocean ice cover is thinner by approximately 40% than it was 20-40 years ago.
  • Ice loss on land is causing the rising sea levels.
  • Overpopulation (a fourfold increase in the 20th century alone).
  • Increasing demand for freshwater.
  • Releases of nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere, resulting in high surface ozone layers.
  • Loss of agricultural soil through erosion.
  • Loss of phosphorous (dangerous depletion in agricultural regions).
  • Melting supplies of phosphate reserves (leading to serious reduction in crop yield).

The paper begins: “Humankind actions are exerting increasing effect on the environment on all scales, in a lot of ways overcoming natural processes.

“During the last 100 years, human population went up from little more than one billion to six billion, and economic activity increased nearly 10 times between 1950 and the present time.”

Crutzen P, Wacławek S. Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene / Chemia Atmosferyczna I Klimat W Antropocenie. Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology. 2015;19(1-2):9-28. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cdem.2014.19.issue-1-2/cdem-2014-0001/cdem-2014-0001.xml?format=INT.

Humankind actions are exerting increasing effect on the environment on all scales, in a lot of ways overcoming natural processes. During the last 100 years human population went up from little more than one to six billion and economic activity increased nearly ten times between 1950 and the present time. In the last few decades of the twentieth century, anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbon release have led to a dramatic decrease in levels of stratospheric ozone, creating ozone hole over the Antarctic, as a result UV-B radiation from the sun increased, leading for example to enhanced risk of skin cancer. Releasing more of a greenhouse gases by mankind, such as CO2, CH4, NOx to the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect. Even if emission increase has held back, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations would continue to raise and remain high for hundreds of years, thus warming Earth’s climate. Warming temperatures contribute to sea level growth by melting mountain glaciers and ice caps, because of these portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt or flow into the ocean. Ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could contribute an additional 19-58 centimeters of sea level rise, hinge on how the ice sheets react. Taking into account these and many other major and still growing footprints of human activities on earth and atmosphere without any doubt we can conclude that we are living in new geological epoch named by P. Crutzen and E. Stoermer in 2000 - “Anthropocene”. For the benefit of our children and their future, we must do more to struggle climate changes that have had occurred gradually over the last century.