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Author: Will in Chicago    Date: 2021-12-27 11:00:06


Having moved from the Chicago area to Los Angeles has meant that I had to adjust to a different climate. Unfortunately, we also see evidence that we may need to adapt to climate change and try to prevent the worst of what may happen in the coming years.



 


Of particular concern is the Thwaites Glacier in Anarctica, which is roughly the size of Florida. From Space.com;




Anarctica’s Doomsday Glacier could meet its doom in three years.

Time is melting away for one of Antarctica's biggest glaciers, and its rapid deterioration could end with the ice shelf's complete collapse in just a few years, researchers warned at a virtual press briefing on Monday (Dec. 13) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Thwaites glacier in western Antarctica is the widest glacier on Earth, spanning about 80 miles (120 kilometers) and extending to a depth of about 2,600 to 3,900 feet (800 to 1,200 meters) at its grounding line — where the glacier transitions from a land-attached ice mass to a floating ice shelf in the Amundsen Sea. Thwaites is sometimes referred to as the "Doomsday Glacier," as its collapse could trigger a cascade of glacial collapse in Antarctica, and the latest research from the frozen continent suggests that doomsday may be coming for the dwindling glacier even sooner than expected.

Warming ocean water is not just melting Thwaites from below; it's also loosening the glacier's grip on the submerged seamount below, making it even more unstable. As the glacier weakens, it then becomes more prone to surface fractures that could spread until the entire ice shelf shatters "like a car window" — and that could happen as soon as three years from now, researchers said at AGU, held in New Orleans and online.


Closer to home, parts of the American South and the Midwest were hit by devastating tornadoes. The clean up will take sometime and families that were planning on Christmas celebrations are mourning their loved ones. Tornado outbreaks have been rare in December, but there is some evidence that our atmosphere has changed.

Here is a story from the BBC that looks at this topic:

US tornadoes: Is climate change to blame?

No single weather event can be put down to climate change alone.
The increasing amount of tornado clusters "clearly implies that the patterns of the atmosphere have changed", meteorologist Harold Brooks, at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), says.

"That may be related to climate change - but we cannot make a full conclusion," he adds.


While much of the news is grim, we have seen a commitment to addressing climate change from the Biden administration as opposed to the outright denial of climate change by his predecessor. It is my hope that we will continue to work with the international community We can try to reduce out carbon footprint and find solutions.

If not, we may well see more of the images in this video from Midnight Oil’s Rising Seas. I hope that this does not happen. I still believe that it is not too late. I think that it is us to up to support like minded individuals running for office, apply pressure, and do what we can. In the end, history will judge our generation. May it not judge us too harshly but say that we did step up to show ourselves to be good stewards of the planet.



 
 
 

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