Water Lilies Continue to Grow on Earth’s Eco Pond

The Water-Lily Pond Clock

It’s 18:06 on Day 27

Related Links

• Omnicide – the killing of everything

GLOBAL WARNINGS

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID PLANETARY DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

Is 350 ppm CO2 Safe?

Original Entry: 350 ppm Safe? Hell, NO!

Related Links:

• 350 or 450ppm? Neither, Actually!

• Greenland Ice Melt Faster Than IPCC Estimates
• Only Zero Emissions Would Avert Dangerous Warming
• Stern Report: “a great toxic dump of doublespeak in truly Orwellian fashion”
• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• The myth of keeping CO2 under 450ppm

Positive Feedbacks

Tipping Point

A confirmation of tipping point is presented in the following report by James Hansen, NASA climatologist:

Excerpts from Hansen’s report:

• We are at the tipping point because the climate state includes large, ready positive feedbacks provided by the Arctic sea ice, the West Antarctic ice sheet, and much of Greenland’s ice.

• Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human-made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum. Warming will shift climatic zones by intensifying the hydrologic cycle, affecting freshwater availability and human health.

Source:Tipping Point: Here and Now!
Report:Tipping Point: PERSPECTIVE OF A CLIMATOLOGIST [PDF]

The ice in the Arctic is much younger than normal, with vast regions now covered by first-year ice and much less area covered by multiyear ice. Left: February distribution of ice by its age during normal Arctic conditions (1985-2000 average). Right: February 2008 Arctic ice age distribution. Credit: NSIDC [Caption: NASA]

Related Links:

• http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/arctic-melting-fast/
• http://feww.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/greenland-ice-melt-faster-than-ipcc-estimates/
• http://feww.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/only-zero-emissions-would-do/
• http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/stern-report-a-great-toxic-dump/

• Burning Earth
• Human Impact
• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Giga Trends
• Nuking Earth for Lifestyle

More on Human-Induced Environmental Catastrophes

“Dust fall” in the West in the last 100 years is up to seven times heavier than at any other period in history

Human activities such as settlement, railroad, industry, farming and ranching has caused a huge increase in the dust levels in the air, according to a report by the University of Colorado at Boulder. More …

Mining Sets Off Earthquake in Germany: Strongest regional quake on record
An earthquake caused by coal mining shook the Saarland region of Germany on the French border Saturday. Measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, the earthquake caused damage to buildings and cut off the electricity supply to the area. Original report

New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change Models
“If current climate models from the IPCC included data from ice dynamics in Greenland, the sea level rise estimated during this century could be twice as high as what they are currently projecting” ~ Beata Csatho, Ph.D., University of Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences. More …

Research conducted by a UB geologist on the Greenland ice sheet shows the trimline (broken brown line) that marks the maximum extent of the ice sheet at the end of the 18th century and the subsequent retreat of the glacier and land exposed since 1944. [Credit: UB; download image JPEG]

Human-induced climate change has altered the rainfall patterns globally
“For the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the past century” More …

Human-induced climate change at a regional scale in Canada, southern Europe and China

Evidence from global air and ocean temperatures, melting snow and ice, and rising sea level show that warming of the climate system is now unequivocal

Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
Given other facts, the projection of 2013 is already too conservative. In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly” ~ Professor Peter Wadhams. More …

CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000
Decline in the natural ability of land and oceans to soak up CO2 from the atmosphere accounts for 18%, inefficient use of fossil fuels adds another 17% to the CO2 increase. More…