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East Siberian Arctic Shelf Horror:

1. subsea permafrost
2. not included in IPCC calculations
3. 'a monster in hiding'
4. life-ending 1256 ppm threat
5. 500-5000 gigatons of methane
6. sudden release possible
6. methane plumes now bubbling up
7."we do not like what we see there"
Truly terrifying:

A 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea "boiling with methane bubbles."

"This is the most powerful seep I have ever been able to observe".

"No one has ever recorded anything similar."

commondreams.org/news/2019/10/0…
From 2011

"I am concerned about this process, I am really concerned. But no-one can tell the timescale of catastrophic releases. There is a probability of future massive releases might occur within the decadal scale..."

independent.co.uk/news/science/v…
Shakhova in the Arctic News article: “When Will We Die?” d/d June 10, 2019.

“Imagine a burst of methane erupting from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean that would add an amount of methane to the atmosphere equal to twice the methane that is already there.”counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the…
'What is the risk of such an outbreak? Many scientists say it is low, although those who regard it as high are the very scientists who have actually done the observational work in the East Siberian Sea. The IPCC ignores this risk...'

e360.yale.edu/features/as_ar…
Arctic Methane Emergency:

Civilisation is heading for collapse.

Watch from 4 mins to 13 mins.
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Ben See
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By 2022, large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and/or global food security.

phys.org/news/2012-09-f…
Major risk of simultaneous breadbasket failures due to climatic extremes:

"Climatic connections between global phenomena such as the El Niño...and regional climate extremes such as Indian heatwaves, or flood risks... pose a risk to the global food system" phys.org/news/2019-12-c…
⚠️ Newly identified jet-stream pattern set to imperil global food supplies.

🔺threat to global food production will worsen with global warming.

phys.org/news/2019-12-l…
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Ben See
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Remember:

1. Melting of Arctic Sea Ice
2. Loss of Greenland Ice Sheet
3. Collapse of W. Antarctic Ice Sheet
4. Partial Collapse in E. Antarctica
5. Melting of Yedoma Permafrost
6. E. Siberian Arctic Shelf Methane

Feedback loops are never front page news.
Ice Masses.☝️

Atmospheric and ocean circulation systems:👇
Ecosystems:👇
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Ben See
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Greenland ice melt is accelerating exponentially whilst Antarctic ice is vanishing at its fastest rate in recorded history. This will have catastrophic consequences for life on Earth by 2029.
Is 'catastrophic' by 2029 an absurd exaggeration?

Well, no, it isn't:

⚠️ Greenland's ice melting alters air circulation leading to extreme weather like July 2019's heatwaves.

2029 heatwaves will be far worse and likely contribute to global crop failures.euronews.com/2019/08/01/gre…
Greenland’s ice sheet response to higher temperatures is now “nonlinear.”

In the last two decades, melting rates of the ice are 33% higher than 20th century averages.

Melting is increasing *and* accelerating.

Who sees this will affect humanity by 2029?e360.yale.edu/features/in-gr…
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Christopher Cartwright
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For weeks and months, i have been tracking the arctic temperatures and the decline of the icecap.
Wondering why it was so warm , and for so long.
What is happening there? Icecap is down over 50%.
Albedo effect will be massively impacted by this.
#climatechange #gretathunberg
We learned a few days ago, that scientific expedition in the east siberian arctic just found methane fountains bubbling on the sea surface , in the middle of the east siberian sea.
Some of the implications :

#ClimateCrisis #climatestrike #ClimateAction

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/0…
Here is the theory:
1/ Increasing periods of open water implies an increasing number of storm events.. Such events have the potential to rapidly ventilate bubble-transported and dissolved CH4 from the water column, producing high emission rates to the atmosphere
#gretathunberg
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Christopher Cartwright
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A dark tweet, sorry about this.
We learned yesterday that scientific expedition in the east siberian arctic just found methane fountains bubbling on the sea surface .
#ClimateCrisis #climatestrike #ClimateAction #climatechange #gretathunberg

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/0…
Please watch the video and focus on what the russian scientist declares (13.20-14-20)
Dr Natalia Shakhova
"WE ABSOLUTELY DO NOT LIKE WHAT WE SEE THERE"
#ClimateCrisis #climatestrike #ClimateAction #climatechange #gretathunberg #methane

Natalia Shakhova doesn't agree with the #ipcc, which doesn't take the ESAS risk into account for calculating the various #RCP ..or any feedback loops including #CH4

You can read more here
counterpunch.org/2019/06/20/the…
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Sarah
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Please indulge me while tell you all the true significance of Trump's interest in #Greenland and it's tangled web to #Russia #Oil #Climatechange and naturally #Putin
May 2013 Companies recognize the melting arctic can allow for increase in oil drilling and re-align accordingly
theverge.com/2013/5/17/4340…
September 2014 l #Roseneft premier Russian oil/energy company of which the Russian government owns 50% by the opens new fields in the arctic to take advantage of the melt
rferl.org/a/russia-rosne…
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Andreas Krüger
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#Arctic #SeaIce #ArcticSeaIce

#Arctic lowest #SeaIce cover record months:
#arctic death spiral
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Srinivas KC
@srinivaskc
#life THREAD. On Subtraction.

1/ It’s simple to note: One has to subtract before adding. Give up what’s bad, before thinking about adding what’s good. True for habits, food, news and everything else.
#life 2/ We live in a world with many apparent "signals”.

We’re consuming:
- More info/news/entertainment
- More food
- More social networking
- More things to-do/work...

…than prior generations. It’s making us lazy and critically, disengaged.
#life 3/ It’s unclear what the signal to noise ratio is - it’s a function of one’s own consumption habits.

And separately, we’re prone to setting additional goals too:
- Read good books
- Eat a healthy diet
- Have fewer but better friends
- Work smart

etc.
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Caroline Lucas
@CarolineLucas
#IPCC report says limiting warming to 1.5 degrees will require an industrial transition unprecedented in scale - but that it’s possible, if the political will is there - and that the wider opportunities and benefits are huge

So here are a few ideas for our own Government ... 1/6
Advice to Government:

Save money and carbon by stopping actively damaging projects like fracking, airport expansion, HS2, new nuclear, road expansion - and spend it on creating hundreds of thousands of jobs through a rapid expansion of renewables #IPCC 2/6
More advice to Government:

Save even more money and carbon, and create even more jobs by ending subsidies for fossil fuels and taxing them for the damage they cause. Spend that on reducing energy bills through huge nationwide insulation programme.

#IPCC 3/6
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