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If you feel the need to be frightened, worried, upset, then I have just the article for you. It brings together all of the many warning signs we've been seeing recently that tell us Earth's climate is rapidly breaking down.
"June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points"
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June 2023 may be remembered as the start of a big change in the climate system, with many key global indicators flashing red warning lights amid signs that some systems are tipping toward a new state from which they may not recover.
Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record in the satellite era, with the sea ice around Antarctica at a record-low extent by far, spurring worried scientists to share dramatic charts of the missing ice repeatedly. In the Arctic, the month ended with the Greenland Ice Sheet experiencing one of the largest June melt events ever recorded, and with scientists reporting that June 2023 was the hottest June ever measured, breaking the 2019 record by a “staggering” 0.16 degrees Celsius.
There was record-breaking heat on nearly every continent during the month, according to independent climate statistician Maximilian Herrera. Along with the deadly late June heat in Mexico and the South-central United States, extreme readings have been widespread in remote Siberia, with hundreds of daily heat records, including readings higher than 95 degrees Celsius close to the Arctic Circle.
“These extraordinary extremes could be an early warning of tipping points towards different weather or sea ice or fire regimes,” said University of Exeter climate researcher Tim Lenton. “We call it ‘flickering’ when a complex system starts to briefly sample a new regime before tipping into it. Let’s hope I’m wrong on that.”
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It’s almost impossible to overstate how drastically human industry has altered the planetary biosphere. We truly live in a different place now, in a climate never experienced by our ancestors, within an extremely dangerous and inhospitable new world.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072023/june-extremes-climate-tipping-points/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
"June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points"
___________________________
June 2023 may be remembered as the start of a big change in the climate system, with many key global indicators flashing red warning lights amid signs that some systems are tipping toward a new state from which they may not recover.
Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record in the satellite era, with the sea ice around Antarctica at a record-low extent by far, spurring worried scientists to share dramatic charts of the missing ice repeatedly. In the Arctic, the month ended with the Greenland Ice Sheet experiencing one of the largest June melt events ever recorded, and with scientists reporting that June 2023 was the hottest June ever measured, breaking the 2019 record by a “staggering” 0.16 degrees Celsius.
There was record-breaking heat on nearly every continent during the month, according to independent climate statistician Maximilian Herrera. Along with the deadly late June heat in Mexico and the South-central United States, extreme readings have been widespread in remote Siberia, with hundreds of daily heat records, including readings higher than 95 degrees Celsius close to the Arctic Circle.
“These extraordinary extremes could be an early warning of tipping points towards different weather or sea ice or fire regimes,” said University of Exeter climate researcher Tim Lenton. “We call it ‘flickering’ when a complex system starts to briefly sample a new regime before tipping into it. Let’s hope I’m wrong on that.”
___________________________
It’s almost impossible to overstate how drastically human industry has altered the planetary biosphere. We truly live in a different place now, in a climate never experienced by our ancestors, within an extremely dangerous and inhospitable new world.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072023/june-extremes-climate-tipping-points/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency