Thomas Mitchell’s Post

#outstanding #moving #documentary from Deutsche Welle. A must see. What will happen to Greenland's ice sheet in a #warming #climate? #observations and #measurements by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen of ice-cores going back #thousands of years, #snowfall and #precipitation by Jason Box and #movement of #water in ice moulin by Alun Hubbard. 1) Water draining under the #ice is still present in #winter = #lubrication and #movement of the ice. 2) Warmer climate means more snowfall that reflects radiation, but also increased rainfall in spring and summer. 20% #increase in snowfall since 1840. However, #precipitation is #winning.....ice melting. 3) We face #catastrophic #flooding in #cities >230 million at #risk #climatechange #greenland #melting #sealevelrise #science #fieldwork #dwdocumentary #climatechangeisreal #mitigation #adaptation https://lnkd.in/dT4QGsYv

This is probably the most important scientific research on climate change and the effects it is about to have on Europe in the past year. It really is the tipping point. If we don't talk about the speed of change acquiring and the solutions to get off of fossil fuels NOW, we are all at fault. Here Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf presents his keynote in Vilnius in May 2024 https://lnkd.in/gBCRYiDB #climatechange #AMOC

Our climate here in the North of Europe is driven by the proximity to the Arctic, the impacts of the low-pressure systems of the Atlantic and North Sea and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (or AMOC among friends). Here's a superb lecture on the current science on the topic of an AMOC shutdown and a subsequent cooling of our region of the world: https://lnkd.in/dQDDS6RR

A famous Pulitzer Prize-winning poem by Robert Frost, first published in 1920, aptly reflects our current planetary state. Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Watch a scientist explain the situation with our AMOC and read the poem again when you have completed the video below. Elections have consequences. https://lnkd.in/gVKtyp9f #climatechange #biodiveristy #pollution #planetarybounderies

An important look at the observations of local fish harvesters of coastal erosion, rising sea levels, and changing weather. Effects of climate change are not going away. The community of Port Saunders is taking action. #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #ShortDoc https://lnkd.in/eE-V3QYZ

Tomorrow is earth’s day. GDP “growth” and Big Oil devastating our planets lungs, 🫁, the coral 🪸 #reefs and setting our land lungs🌳 on fire 🔥 destroying our crops 🌾 and flooding people’s houses. We are now in a global coral #bleaching event, this documentary is 2 years old but 2023 and 2024 have registered world 🌍 highest temperature on the world oceans 🌊 causing a new global bleaching. Follow World Meteorological Organization for facts and science on our dangerously changing #climate, what is your company doing to avoid this destruction? Stop ✋ business as usual embrace the change

What is a climate tipping point? Here is a 60-second explanation from Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf at the New York Times Climate Forward last week. If you want to know more about the tipping point of the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC, on which I've worked for over 30 years, watch this: https://lnkd.in/dcwDJ4d3

Check out this very interesting collective initiative of scientists in the #Arctic to measure the effects of #climatechange though melting of sea ice. #reicing #realice Real Ice https://lnkd.in/eHZcgynA

If you want to understand the AMOC (Altantic Meridional Occidental Current) and why it’s collapse is something we must do all in our power to avoid, this is a nice, short discussion worth listening to #AMOC #EconomicCollapse #UncommonCourage https://lnkd.in/gymFDMk2

Recently read an article in WIRED about the AMOC and wanted to learn more about this fascinating and yet very scary natural global heat pump and how it affects our climate. It is confirmed slowing, and if/when it reaches a tipping point (may have already happened, or about to happen) the consequences are unknown and very dire to the global ecosystem