Much of Canada’s remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said.
AND parts of America has warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius!
If Trump And the science denying GOP win we can pretty much forget about trying to keep global warming below a 2 C deg. average rise in Temp. And the rest of the world doesn’t get to vote on Trump.
A timely reminder that the universe is not limited to one crisis at a time.
In Italy the Mont Blanc glacier is threatening to collaspe, thus forcing evacuation of mountain towns in the Italian Alps.
Amazing how important Moscow McConnell is.
On serious note, The Biden Administration–to address the Planet’s needs–is going to have to use people as diverse as GOP voters and Democratic voters
Temperatures from May to early August have been 9 degrees warmer than the 1980 to 2010 average…
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
iI have nothing to say about the article but isn’t the author the guy from the Times who writes the scary climate change stories. When did he join TPM?
It is what it is, unless the Republicans are engaged. A planet killing, extinction event asteroid will still somehow be worse with the Republicans in charge.
Republicans would somehow find a way to nudge the Earth into the asteroid’s path.
Their loss.
Twice
They would back up the planet
This is an AP article, not the times or TPM. TPM loves AP articles.
Various media outlets have reported the same. Somewhat poorly.
You may have an argument about Borenstein’s credentials (BS - Journalism, BU) for talking science, but for my money this was the better article on the Milne calfing. By far.
Ouch
They just evacuated a resort in the Valle D’Aosta in Italy because the Mont Blanc ice shelf is danger of collapsing.
good times. sigh
“This is a huge, huge block of ice,” White said. “If one of these is moving toward an oil rig, there’s nothing you can really do aside from move your oil rig.”
And last I heard, Trump had been still trying to push through allowing arctic offshore rigs (with little-to-no oversight).
These events are the canaries in the coal mine…the problem is that they are the result of baked in heating from a decade or two ago. The increase in CO2 since then will continue the Earth’s warming, even if all anthropogenic sources of CO2 vanished tomorrow. We’re moving towards a new, warmer equilibrium, and will be for some time. The really scary part is that there may be tipping points that we don’t know about…environmental scientists are worried about methane release from the ocean and permafrost really accelerating things, and that’s happening now and only one possible self-reinforcing process.
We’re going to see far worse events in the next 50 years, including people fighting and dying over water resources. We may be able to change this through technology, but only if humanity actually takes it seriously and does something about it…and, even the most serious nations are not doing as well as necessary yet, because it’s a hard problem. The Republicans have probably caused the most problems with making progress on this though…it’s very likely that history vilifies them more because of their blocking of climate change action than all the other awful things they have done.
I pay for TPM. AP not so much.
Post apocalyptic sci-fi used to be fun until I found out we are living in a really shitty one. Starring Donald Trump of all people.