Reposting The Arctic Methane Monster with this comment from Steve Running on the conclusions drawn in the film. Apologies for falling prey to fear biased and based reads on the science. And, as Steve Running offers, there is cause to respect the science offered here. Action is required to change this course. There is time to do so and the time is now. We are. Thanks to Steve for taking time to review this PowerPoint and respond. Godspeed. Well, this lady has sure spent a lot of time reading up on this science. The slides shown are from solid research papers and datasets, I use some of them myself, the guy Sam just regraphed them for some blog, and most of her explanations of the climate system are pretty good. Boreal methane hydrates are real, and there is a lot of it. However the thermodynamics are such that there is no way it could melt out and be released within a year or two, and the biosphere will not simply collapse. Her final statement that within a year the Arctic sea ice will be gone is simply a wild extrapolation. I am attaching the latest Arctic sea ice data, downloaded 10min ago, which shows that 2014 did NOT end up as the biggest melt on record, and there is no evidence that Arctic sea ice will be totally gone by Sept 2015 ie 1 year from now. Antarctica also has a large ice mass this year. So her projection that the ice will disappear and the biosphere will simply unravel in the next 1-2 years simply has no factual basis. I admire the kind of passion and effort people like her bring to the global warming issue, but passing around this sort of misinformation does not help us to have a mature discussion about humanities next choices. STeve ------------------------------------------- Regents Professor Steven W. Running, Director, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Dept. of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 USA Homepage: ntsg.umt.edu/ https://youtube/watch?v=a9PshoYtoxo
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:50:02 +0000
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