Feedback loops accelerate climate change at an exponential rate. In this case, brown carbon from wildfires warms the arctic. The warmer arctic absorbs more heat causing more wildfires. In turn, more wildfires cause more brown carbon resulting in a warmer arctic. The cycle keeps reinforcing itself as it repeats. A study published in One Earth […]
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Climate Change Feedback Loops: Brown Carbon, Wildfires, and Arctic Melting
Droughts and Rising Sea Levels
“There has been a 500% increase in the US drought area,” said Al Roker of the Today show while reporting on 2020 being tied for the hottest year. The Washington Post reports, “Drought is the sleeper weather story you’ll hear more about in 2021.” [1} “The impact of desertification is intensifying due to climate change, […]
The Horror World will Face from Climate Change
Extreme Weather Events Getting More Extreme
The U.N. has released a report entitled, “Extreme Weather Continues in 2018 – a Continuing Call to Climate Action”. Addressing the dangers associated with extreme weather conditions, the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa said: “We must keep an eye on the future. As the superstorms and monsoon flooding of last year […]
Wildfires: Increase In Extreme Weather
The Membrane Domain started conducting global warming experiments in the 1990’s. It was about 1997 when we suggested the climate in Pennsylvania would turn more like Florida and the climate in California would turn more like Hades. The change wasn’t predicted to take place for hundreds of years. Now, only twenty years later, Pennsylvania has […]
Climate Change Breaks Multiple Records with Global Impacts
The World Meteorological Organization (WHO) issued a report that states records for 2016: a record global temperature exceptionally low sea ice unabated sea level rise ocean heat Extreme weather and climate conditions have continued into 2017. “This report confirms that the year 2016 was the warmest on record – a remarkable 1.1 °C above the […]
Canada Wildfires
FORT MCMURRAY, CANADA — More than 80,000 people needed to be evacuated from the city of Fort McMurray in Canada’s Northern Alberta. The mandatory evacuation covered all of Fort McMurray and is the largest evacuation on record in Canada. The fire has already destroyed over 1,600 buildings, including a new school. Resident Neil Scott told […]
California Wildfires Burn Over 700 Homes
The extreme weather conditions have fueled wildfires in Northern California. “I’m in shock. I want to cry. I’m looking at my neighbors’ places, and they’re all gone, and I’m still here,” Middletown homeowner Jim Maurer said. “We’re just shaking our heads.” The AP reports: The fire and another in the Gold Rush country of the […]
Save the Monkey Puzzle Tree
Wildfires in Chile are threatening the Monkey Puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana) some of which are over a thousand years old. Chile has been in an 8 year drought that is largely blamed on global warming. “Faced with this critical situation, there is no choice but to assume that the lack of water resources is a […]