Warm Air Pulsing into Arctic, Ice Melting

March 1, 2019

Amazing University of Maine animation showing warm air literally pumping into the Arctic, while cold blobs are pushed out into North America.

Temps in the Arctic have been more than 20°C above average creating periodic open water in normally hard-frozen sea ice in the dead of winter: https://t.co/mF6M61bAPz #ClimateChange is here. Let's do something about it#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #climatestrike #GreenNewDeal pic.twitter.com/oKDJDwvYs3

— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) March 1, 2019

If you haven’t seen my vid on this, do so now.

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39 Responses to “Warm Air Pulsing into Arctic, Ice Melting”

Keith McClary Says:

March 1, 2019 at 1:27 pm
That red blob heading towards me looks nice, but then I remember that it is anomaly (not absolute) so it will be cold when it gets here.

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Sir Charles Says:

March 1, 2019 at 2:18 pm
Teen Climate Activist to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: We Need the Green New Deal to Prevent the Apocalypse

Greta Thunberg and European students announce worldwide school strike on March 15. Today, thousands of pupils marched with Greta in Hamburg/Germany.

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- Sir Charles Says:
  
  March 1, 2019 at 2:20 pm
  Meet the Kids Who Confronted Sen. Feinstein: We’re the Ones Who Will Have to Live with It
  
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- Sir Charles Says:
  
  March 2, 2019 at 12:37 am
  At least 500 protests are planned for March 15
  
  => Youth climate strikers: ‘We are going to change the fate of humanity’
  
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- redskylite Says:
  
  March 6, 2019 at 2:35 am
  Just watched a N.Z breakfast time show where a local politician sneers at the children’s actions suggesting they were just wagging school and being manipulated for political purposes – just shows how far ignorant and adrift the adult population can be – I fully agree with Fintan O’Toole’s sentiments in the Irish Times, when he headlines
  
  “Shame on us for forcing children to wake us up to climate change
  We have failed to protect our children – now we are looking to them to protect us.”
  
  Indeed kids are showing the way.
  
  Support is surging for teens’ climate change lawsuit
  The U.S. Constitution protects the right to a safe climate, say 30,000 kids and eight members of Congress in support of the suit.
  
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/youth-climate-change-lawsuit-grows-support/
  
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  - Sir Charles Says:
    
    March 6, 2019 at 2:11 pm
    👍
    
    (I’m really missing the like button here)
    
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John Says:

March 1, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Reblogged this on jpratt27.

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Robert A. Vella Says:

March 1, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Reblogged this on The Secular Jurist and commented:
MUST SEE 5-minute video (especially for you dumb-ass climate change deniers)

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grindupbaker Says:

March 1, 2019 at 6:05 pm
That animation is 3 days in the past and 3 days in the future where I live (Lake Huron). However, I can report that I shovelled snow stripped to the waist for 2 hours 3 hours ago so I think I got a bit of a warm sunny blob just now.

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Raymond Horstman Says:

March 2, 2019 at 3:27 am
The animation is very impresive. I never saw something like this before.

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redskylite Says:

March 2, 2019 at 3:34 am
One major thing strikes me after reading this entry, one thing is gravely missing. In the last century we had the CND movement to protest the nuclear proliferation, it appealed to a large audience across diverse political persuasions. It was a force, it mattered, it made a difference.

Where the hell is the same thrust today ?, where is climate change’s equivalent to the CND movement of yesteryear? It needs to be unleashed, it needs to get out of the web, it needs to reverberate around the world loudly now. YES NOW.

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Sir Charles Says:

March 2, 2019 at 1:03 pm

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Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) Says:

March 2, 2019 at 6:15 pm
An AMSR2 concentration animation revealing the recent early spread of open water across the southern Chukchi Sea:

More information at:

http://GreatWhiteCon.info/2019/03/the-2019-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent/#Mar-02

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jimbills Says:

March 2, 2019 at 8:37 pm
The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-running-out-of-breath-scientists-warn/

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- dumboldguy Says:
  
  March 4, 2019 at 8:45 am
  Thank you for that update. The monsters lurking under my bed ARE getting a bit crowded and noisy under there, though. (And the two named Tipping Points and Exponential are getting downright surly.)
  
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  - jimbills Says:
    
    March 5, 2019 at 2:34 pm
    Here are three more:
    
    Atmospheric Methane Levels Have Surged in the Last Decade, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
    https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-methane-emissions-atmosphere-1350529
    
    Disappearing rice fields threaten more global warming
    https://phys.org/news/2019-03-rice-fields-threaten-global.html
    
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    - dumboldguy Says:
      
      March 5, 2019 at 2:51 pm
      Here’s another one that may help explain “why”—it’s going under the bed too (or maybe in the closet). It’s one I had had heard next to nothing about in the past.
      
      http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/
      
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      - jimbills Says:
        
        March 5, 2019 at 3:37 pm
        Gail has been blogging about that for a decade. She used to comment here fairly frequently, too. She’s pretty much been alone in calling attention to tree rot – which might mean there’s little there, or it might mean it’s simply overlooked. Time will tell on that. That recent post of hers, though, is a good recap of supporting science, though:
        http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2019/03/methane-mania.html
        
        For the record, I’m not thumbing you down.
      - dumboldguy Says:
        
        March 5, 2019 at 6:45 pm
        For the record, I didn’t ever think you were among the morons who “thumb me down”. You’re far too intelligent, well-informed, and able to defend yourself to do something that childish.
        
        The “DOG thumbers” are cowards, droolers, and knuckle-draggers who can’t come up with words or arguments to express their dislike for my having put them down in the past, so they take the easy way out. I pay them no attention, and actually chuckle at their impotence (and watch out—-agree with anything I say and YOU may feel their “wrath” also).
    - Sir Charles Says:
      
      March 6, 2019 at 2:13 pm
      No mystery at all
      
      => Global spike in methane emissions over last decade likely due to US shale
      
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  - jimbills Says:
    
    March 5, 2019 at 2:36 pm
    Third, and this one is significant as far as human reaction to warming:
    
    Like a boiling frog, humans quickly normalize extreme temperatures
    https://www.popsci.com/normalizing-extreme-weather-twitter
    
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    - dumboldguy Says:
      
      March 5, 2019 at 2:56 pm
      There’s a reason that “S**t For Brains” (SFB) has entered the lexicon. Just as our Tweeter-in Chief is mentally deficient, many other tweeters are as well.
      
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      - jimbills Says:
        
        March 5, 2019 at 3:45 pm
        I’ve been reading firsthand accounts of frontier life in the States in the 19th century lately. They are full of references to how plentiful the land was in wildlife. We live in a comparative wasteland today, let alone what is to come in the future, but few even realize it.
      - dumboldguy Says:
        
        March 5, 2019 at 6:20 pm
        Yep, “few even realize it” is the way it is, and you might add to that “and few even care”. Now reading one of E.O.Wilson’s books—-“Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life”. Go to the preview and read just the prologue—-some of the most powerful handful of pages I’ve ever read.
        
        https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25622872-half-earth
        
        Wilson maintains that we need to set aside half the Earth as a “preserve” if we want to maintain the biosphere. He also maintains that we haven’t even discovered the vast majority of species, have barely examined terrestrial ecosystems, and have not looked at the oceans much at all—-we are stumbling in the dark when it comes to understanding the richness and complexity of life on Earth.
        
        He also mentions the “HIPPO” acronym as well (p 57-58) as a summary of our most destructive behaviors—-an interesting way to remember them:
        
        Habitat destruction
        Invasive species
        Pollution
        Population Growth
        Overhunting