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Due to continued rising sea levels and accelerated calving of glaciers increasing wave action; I predict the locations of the massive flooding in the US will soon become uninhabitable and the source of mass migration unlike any we have seen to date! Likewise islands and coastal cities throughout the world.
I'm adding this excellent link which is animated in such a way as to be mind-boggling and in support of my article.
For years we have been told to turn down our heat, don't idle our vehicles so long etc. and nothing came of it! Now we have no choices. There is a hope the carbon tax will encourage this kind of thinking. Conservative rail against it but offer no solutions. The Wild Rose Party are in complete denial as are most Conservatives. Their policy and action come from the LDS Church as does most of their candidates. The Mormon church has more cash on hand than most countries!
The arctic tundra is melting which can release a further 2.5 times the CO2 than is present in the atmosphere. Earth orbit is elliptical and we are moving away from the sun as we should be but, rather than cool off we are still heating up! Ocean currents are changing, the oceans are rising! Currents and changing and sharks and "southern" species are showing up in "northern" waters.
Greenland's ice is melting fast as is Antarctica and the arctic causing sea level to start rising. Along with our glaciers where we get our drinking water from, receding rapidly adds greatly to our problems.
If we don't get this heating under control we will fail as the human race! Cities by the ocean will start flooding and you will witness a migration that will stagger your imagination!
Waves are gnawing at the cliffs of Herschel Island! The town of Tuktoyaktuk which for comparison was palm size is now thumb size and the tundra, in general, is eroding now; into the arctic ocean. This, in turn, will accelerate heating of the Arctic because of the dark particles in the water.
Earth orbit is elliptical; we are moving away from the sun as we should. We are into a 5000-year journey to apex But; we are still heating rather than cooling as we should be! Then, it's 5000 years back to circular around the sun.
Conservatives tried, and even argue for carbon cap and trade with does nothing for the environment and gives corporations a huge tax deduction at one end and a huge tax credit on
The world, not just Canada and Alberta is moving towards carbon charges. There is no other way. PM Trudeau was recently in meetings with the Saudi. The Saudi announced billions to invest in silicon sun generation was one outcome. Get used to wearing a sweater and turn down your dam thermostat and air conditioning.
Pumping carbon dioxide down the hole in as they do in Saskatchewan results in an explosion of carbon dioxide out of the hole running for many hours ahead of any oil showing up and sounding like a jet plane but conservative is after the residual oil in those fields.
On the other hand, there is news of mixing carbon dioxide with cement; holding it firm and making the cement last longer too.
And more:
A satellite image of Herschel Island, Yukon, showing huge sediment plumes in the shallow water areas. (NASA Worldview)
Fritz said the majority of the coastline on Herschel Island, like much of the Arctic, is subject to erosion in the summer when the sea ice retreats.
"Since 2007, we've seen one minimum after the other regarding sea ice distribution in summer on the Arctic Ocean. That gives rise to higher waves, more storms that can affect the coast to erode it."
When that coast is eroded, the nutrient-rich soil mixes with the seawater and creates massive plumes of sediment. Fritz said the effect that murky water has on the marine ecosystem is unknown.
"With that sediment comes a lot of carbon and lot of nutrients, and those nutrients and pollutants will affect the water column," he said.
"We ask ourselves the question 'with this higher load of sediments, of nutrients and also of pollutants, what is happening with the food web' and we don't know."
Scientists are predicting catastrophic lake drainage now.
When Conservatives rail against a carbon tax, they are in denial of our circumstances. Our economy will adjust to the new realities and ongoing abrupt changes. Abrupt? Yes; they will accelerate.
All this on top of a world presently in recession and a position of universal deficit spending again, not just Canada and Alberta but the world!!
And to put it on an entirely different scale: Thirty years ago there was little or no conversation on Climate Change. A few scientists were shouting through the darkness about it but, nothing showing up in the weather!
In just this 20 years we have progressed to wild weather patterns, all extremes. Floods, Fires, tidal surges and wave actions. Tornados and Hurricanes around the world.
Now we see the Arctic Tundra melting which has two times as much Carbon Dioxide and Methane in it as does our present atmosphere!
What kind of a horrid situation are we going to be facing in just another 20 years?
I'm adding this excellent link which is animated in such a way as to be mind-boggling and in support of my article.
For years we have been told to turn down our heat, don't idle our vehicles so long etc. and nothing came of it! Now we have no choices. There is a hope the carbon tax will encourage this kind of thinking. Conservative rail against it but offer no solutions. The Wild Rose Party are in complete denial as are most Conservatives. Their policy and action come from the LDS Church as does most of their candidates. The Mormon church has more cash on hand than most countries!
The arctic tundra is melting which can release a further 2.5 times the CO2 than is present in the atmosphere. Earth orbit is elliptical and we are moving away from the sun as we should be but, rather than cool off we are still heating up! Ocean currents are changing, the oceans are rising! Currents and changing and sharks and "southern" species are showing up in "northern" waters.
Greenland's ice is melting fast as is Antarctica and the arctic causing sea level to start rising. Along with our glaciers where we get our drinking water from, receding rapidly adds greatly to our problems.
If we don't get this heating under control we will fail as the human race! Cities by the ocean will start flooding and you will witness a migration that will stagger your imagination!
Waves are gnawing at the cliffs of Herschel Island! The town of Tuktoyaktuk which for comparison was palm size is now thumb size and the tundra, in general, is eroding now; into the arctic ocean. This, in turn, will accelerate heating of the Arctic because of the dark particles in the water.
Earth orbit is elliptical; we are moving away from the sun as we should. We are into a 5000-year journey to apex But; we are still heating rather than cooling as we should be! Then, it's 5000 years back to circular around the sun.
Conservatives tried, and even argue for carbon cap and trade with does nothing for the environment and gives corporations a huge tax deduction at one end and a huge tax credit on
The world, not just Canada and Alberta is moving towards carbon charges. There is no other way. PM Trudeau was recently in meetings with the Saudi. The Saudi announced billions to invest in silicon sun generation was one outcome. Get used to wearing a sweater and turn down your dam thermostat and air conditioning.
Pumping carbon dioxide down the hole in as they do in Saskatchewan results in an explosion of carbon dioxide out of the hole running for many hours ahead of any oil showing up and sounding like a jet plane but conservative is after the residual oil in those fields.
On the other hand, there is news of mixing carbon dioxide with cement; holding it firm and making the cement last longer too.
And more:
A satellite image of Herschel Island, Yukon, showing huge sediment plumes in the shallow water areas. (NASA Worldview)
Fritz said the majority of the coastline on Herschel Island, like much of the Arctic, is subject to erosion in the summer when the sea ice retreats.
"Since 2007, we've seen one minimum after the other regarding sea ice distribution in summer on the Arctic Ocean. That gives rise to higher waves, more storms that can affect the coast to erode it."
When that coast is eroded, the nutrient-rich soil mixes with the seawater and creates massive plumes of sediment. Fritz said the effect that murky water has on the marine ecosystem is unknown.
"With that sediment comes a lot of carbon and lot of nutrients, and those nutrients and pollutants will affect the water column," he said.
"We ask ourselves the question 'with this higher load of sediments, of nutrients and also of pollutants, what is happening with the food web' and we don't know."
Scientists are predicting catastrophic lake drainage now.
When Conservatives rail against a carbon tax, they are in denial of our circumstances. Our economy will adjust to the new realities and ongoing abrupt changes. Abrupt? Yes; they will accelerate.
All this on top of a world presently in recession and a position of universal deficit spending again, not just Canada and Alberta but the world!!
And to put it on an entirely different scale: Thirty years ago there was little or no conversation on Climate Change. A few scientists were shouting through the darkness about it but, nothing showing up in the weather!
In just this 20 years we have progressed to wild weather patterns, all extremes. Floods, Fires, tidal surges and wave actions. Tornados and Hurricanes around the world.
Now we see the Arctic Tundra melting which has two times as much Carbon Dioxide and Methane in it as does our present atmosphere!
What kind of a horrid situation are we going to be facing in just another 20 years?
