(1/2) An unfortunate piece of news this morning is both arctics are experiencing an extreme heat wave at once, which is concerning not only as they're in opposite seasons & opposite sides of the world, and the rapid heat increase & simultaneous occurence
huffpost.com/entry/earth-po…
huffpost.com/entry/earth-po…
(2/3) is concerning. There's signs that a big contributer to this is smoke from wildfires, sorta' creating a heat dome, alongside currents from other places being unfortunately placed due to recent Earthquakes (which yes, is a nightmarish sentence to write). The unfortunate long
(3/3) term effect is that the expectation for sea levels rising, which was placed less than a decade ago as being within the next 50 years, is coming sooner than expected.
As scientists have warned, it's too late to prevent disaster, we have to take action now for the worst.
As scientists have warned, it's too late to prevent disaster, we have to take action now for the worst.
A little bonus tweet, but for the arctic scientist quoted in the various articles, I like how a lot of them just seem bewildered. Saying like, "Wow, this has never happened before. Obviously not a good sign, we might be fucked."
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