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climate emergency

When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?

By Abrupt changes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, Earth systems, Emissions, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, media myths, Myths, The Unexpected, warming in the pipeline

Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party descending the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 expedition. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution,…

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Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions

By Abrupt changes, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic warming, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate restoration, climate solutions, collapse, Earth systems, Extreme Weather, feedback, feedbacks, Impacts, irreversible, risk, Scenarios, Solutions, tipping, uncontrollable

Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions Feedback s are best understood by example. The cloud machine feedback in a forest is a good one to start with. Remove…

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A review of World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022 in Bioscience, October 26, 2022

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, carbon dioxide removal, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Drought, extremes, feedbacks, fires, floods, Hurricanes, severe weather

A review of Ripple et al., World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, Bioscience, October 26, 2022. The report opens, “We are now at “code red” on planet Earth….

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Dragon’s Mouths, Permafrost and Earth Systems Collapse Blindness

By Abrupt changes, Alaska, Arctic, Arctic warming, climate, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate restoration, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, frozen ground, Impacts, irreversible, Permafrost, permafrost collapse, permafrost melt, point of no return, Scenarios, tipping

Permafrost thaw, Glenn Highway, Southeastern Alaska I am continually amazed that scientists consistently find that ecological collapses have been activated, but do not connect that existing warming today, that activated…

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Five-Fold Increase in Cool Season Tornadoes

By Climate Catastrophes, climate change, climate change caused, Climate change impacts, climate emergency, dsever weather, Extreme Weather, global warming, La Nina, Messaging, outbreak tornadoes, record, Tornado, Winter Weather

Mayfield Kentucky after the December 2021 tornado outbreak. Image: State Farm Insurance, Wiki Commons Winter tornadoes have increase 500 percent since 1953 with most of the increase likely being recent….

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