Thanks for this, but we need to remind folks that each POUND of melting ice is absorbing 144 BTUs of heat energy, about half of which is generated from our burning of fossil fuels and the other half from trapped IR from solar radiation. C3S said that 2 yrs. ago we were losing 1,200,000,000,000 tons of global ice annually, so 100,000,000,000 tons monthly. Check the NOAA "surface analysis" to see the 57 degF land temp today in southern Greenland. That's resulting in 8,000,000,000 tons of melting ice HOURLY. Still wonder why the Atlantic is coolist just south of Greenland? Really?
I subscribed to your email, after reading about you in the Guardian. Having already accepted that we will sit back and watch either our planet or our civilisation die (hopefully, it will be the latter), and grieved accordingly, I found the list of facts fascinating. However, I can't think of a single friend I would share it with. If you haven't reached the point of acceptance, it is just too depressing. (I should add, that while accepting the inevitable, I refuse to add fuel to the fire, so don't own a car, am vegan, and refuse to fly, as well as doing what I can to keep my carbon footprint small.)
In the meantime, I enjoy this beautiful, sunny morning and can watch spoonbills feeding. There is still so much beauty, day to day.
Many more people are coming round to this stage of acceptance.
Still, there's not a whole lot of places where people are accepting enough to talk openly.
If you have a local CSA veg scheme you can support and volunteer at, such places often have a good amount of collapse aware people. Generally I've found that by working out what makes sense and what I want to learn, in light of accepting collapse, and then following that has introduced me to new friends who are looking this stuff (more) in the face.
Thanks for this, but we need to remind folks that each POUND of melting ice is absorbing 144 BTUs of heat energy, about half of which is generated from our burning of fossil fuels and the other half from trapped IR from solar radiation. C3S said that 2 yrs. ago we were losing 1,200,000,000,000 tons of global ice annually, so 100,000,000,000 tons monthly. Check the NOAA "surface analysis" to see the 57 degF land temp today in southern Greenland. That's resulting in 8,000,000,000 tons of melting ice HOURLY. Still wonder why the Atlantic is coolist just south of Greenland? Really?
Loss of data provided to NOAA by the Defense Dept. from three satellites that are crucial to hurricane forecasting.
I subscribed to your email, after reading about you in the Guardian. Having already accepted that we will sit back and watch either our planet or our civilisation die (hopefully, it will be the latter), and grieved accordingly, I found the list of facts fascinating. However, I can't think of a single friend I would share it with. If you haven't reached the point of acceptance, it is just too depressing. (I should add, that while accepting the inevitable, I refuse to add fuel to the fire, so don't own a car, am vegan, and refuse to fly, as well as doing what I can to keep my carbon footprint small.)
In the meantime, I enjoy this beautiful, sunny morning and can watch spoonbills feeding. There is still so much beauty, day to day.
Many more people are coming round to this stage of acceptance.
Still, there's not a whole lot of places where people are accepting enough to talk openly.
If you have a local CSA veg scheme you can support and volunteer at, such places often have a good amount of collapse aware people. Generally I've found that by working out what makes sense and what I want to learn, in light of accepting collapse, and then following that has introduced me to new friends who are looking this stuff (more) in the face.