Dane Wigington: Heating Arctic and weather whiplash

June 19, 2022 admin Comments 0 Comment

It has been quite a while since I listened to Dane Wigington’s reports. Listen to the end; this man is no armchair ecologist

Is It Game Over? New NASA Report

Global climate engineering operations have been pushed and propagated on the premise of cooling the planet by saturating Earth’s skies with sun blocking aerosols. The jet sprayed aerosols are intended to mimic the affect of extended volcanic eruptions. A new NASA science study has now confirmed that extended volcanic eruptions caused long term warming, not cooling. Worse, the ozone layer was decimated in the process. The 5+ minute video below exposes the flawed foundations of the climate engineering narrative and the grave dangers geoengineering operations pose to all life on Earth

Climate engineering operations are:

Destroying the ozone layer.
Accelerating planetary meltdown.
Completely disrupting the global hydrological cycle.
Establishing the conditions for unprecedented wildfires.
Ubiquitously contaminating the entire planet and every breath we take.
Saturating the biosphere with extremely harmful RF / Microwave transmissions.
Being used as a covert weapon of war.

With the exception of this first item all were cited by Dane.

He contends that not only is the Arctic heating up – it is heating exponentially faster and geoengineering operations are the bandaid.

Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling

The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.

Record-smashing Arctic temperatures may brighten the outlook for those who thrive, actually enjoy, disaster scenarios, but the great majority of people only get off on disasters in a movie theater, not in the wide open spaces at the top of the world. Even Hollywood itself could never possibly capture the moment, the drama, the heightened level of deep concern of flabbergasted scientists, as temperatures in the Arctic skyrocket.

What’s happening?

Indisputably, it’s all about cars, planes, trains, cows, heavy industry, and electric power plants emitting tons of CO2 into the upper atmosphere where it blankets heat. In that regard, there are limits to what works and what doesn’t for nature’s climate system to continue functioning so that humans can live and breathe and survive. Global warming anomalous temperatures, which are beyond the norm of thousands of years, just don’t cut it. It’s at the biggest disruption level in human history, and it’s downright ugly and outright scary.

New studies have discovered: “Extraordinary global heating in the Arctic that’s seven (7) times faster than the global average” in the North Barents Sea region. This is awful news. Scientists are alarmed, viewing it as an early warning sign of what’s in store for the rest of the Far North, and ultimately the planet as a whole. Seven times faster is insane.

Shockingly, average annual temperatures have logged +2.7C per decade and as high as +4C in autumn months. That’s the fastest rate of heat on Earth. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change >2C spells big trouble.

Scientists have responded with adjectives like weird, simply shocking, crazy, chilling while expressing serious concern about a “signal of more abrupt climate breakdown.” Yes, climate breakdown, which unfortunately precedes societal collapse.

According to the prescience of William Ophuls: “Civilization is effectively hardwired for self-destruction… Insuperable biophysical limits combine with innate human fallibility to precipitate eventual collapse.” (William Ophuls, Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail, 2012)

As for the horrific Arctic discovery: “We expected to see strong warming, but not on the scale we found,” according to Ketil Isaksen, senior researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute: “We were all surprised. From what we know from all other observation points on the globe, these are the highest warming rates we have observed so far.” (Source: Damian Carrington, Environmental Editor, New Data Reveals Extraordinary Global Heating in the Arctic, The Guardian, June 15, 2022)

This is one more example of climate change ahead of schedule. According to Dr. Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute: “This study shows that even the best possible models have been underestimating the rate of warming in the Barents Sea,” Ibid.

Of more than passing significance, this is the first public release of “extraordinary high-quality” surface air temperature measurements from 1981 to 2020 demonstrating 5-to-7 times global warming averages, which is off the charts problematic.

According to Ketil Isaksen, PhD: “It’s off the scale.” Regrettably, it represents a “leading signal of global warming.” (Source: Ketil Isaksen, et al, Exceptional Warming Over the Barents Area, Scientific Reports 12, Article No. 9371, June 15, 2022).

The Isaksen study focused on three periods, covering 40, 30, and 20 years beginning from 1981, 1991, 2001 and all ending in 2020. The highest readings “were up to twice as high than hitherto known in this region from reference station series in the western and southern part… we showed that the warming has been strongly linked, both in space and time, to (1) the large reduction of sea ice and (2) increased SST (sea surface temperature)”, Ibid.

The Arctic sets the tone for the rest of the world, which is a horrifying thought based upon this new data. Meanwhile, down south the Doomsday Glacier set another scary record.

Off the charts temperatures in the Arctic are only one-half of the horrific news: “Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier (Thwaites) is losing ice at its fastest rate in 5,500 years, raising concerns about the ice sheet’s future and the possibility of catastrophic sea level rise caused by the frozen continent’s melting ice.” (Source: Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is Hemorrhaging Ice Faster Than in the Past 5,500 Years, LiveScience, June 15, 2022)

The finding comes from a study of prehistoric sea-deposits found on the shores surrounding Thwaites glacier and Pine Island glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: “Antarctica’s glacial melt is advancing faster than ever before in recorded history.” (Source: Scott Braddock, Relative Sea-Level Data Preclude Major Late Holocene Ice-Mass Change in Pine Island Bay, Nature Geoscience, June 9, 2022)

Alas. with both poles setting new records, the evidence mounts that years of warnings from scientists have been right on target, 100% correct while the consequences have been much, much faster than the models expected.

As such, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to foresee impending disaster brewing on the horizon, especially with current rates of CO2 levels and meaningfully because of grim news: China is Building More Than Half of the World’s New Coal Power Plants, NewScientist, April 26, 2022: “Some 176 gigawatts of coal capacity was under construction in 2021, and more than half of that was being built in China.” (176 gigawatts equal enough power for one hundred twenty-three million (123,000,000) homes).

The China/India news defines human insanity and unbelievable stupidity that’s responsible for repeated failure of climate mitigation efforts. This story is getting very old, way too late, in a perilous climate change cycle. Is it suicidal?

As both China and India ramp up new coal power plants, it’s also a direct assault on their own ports: Port of Shanghai, Port of Shenzhen, Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, Port of Guangzhou, Port of Hong Kong, Port of Qingdao, Port of Tianjin, Port of Daliam, Kkandia Port, Mumbai Port, Chennai Port, Port Blair Port, Kolkata Port, Tuticorin Port, Cochin Port, and Ennore Port.

A Possible Solution: Convert the US defense budget to a worldwide renewables build-out. Otherwise, at current rates of change, there won’t be much to defend anyhow.

Robert Hunziker is a writer from Los Angeles

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Exceptional Warming Over the Barents Area

Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are record high and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe.

New data recently published in the journal Scientific Reports has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average. The research is based on data from automatic weather stations on the islands of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.

The heating is happening in the North Barents Sea, and is suspected to trigger increases in extreme weather in North America, Europe and Asia. According to researchers the heating in the Barents sea region is an “early warning” of what could happen across the rest of the Arctic.

The data was collected over the past 20–40 years from the northern archipelagos in the Barents Sea located on the border between the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

Exceptional warming over the Barents area. Figure.

Exceptional warming over the Barents area. (Illustration from the report)

More extreme

The data show annual average temperatures in the area are rising during the year by up to 2.7 degrees Celsius per decade, with particularly high rises in the months of autumn of up to 4 degrees Celsius per decade. This makes the North Barents Sea and its islands the fastest warming place known on Earth.

In the recent years, researchers have seen temperatures far above average recorded in the Arctic. It was already known that the climate crisis was driving heating across the Arctic three times faster than the global average, but the new research shows the situation is even more extreme in places.

Changes in surface air temperature and sea ice are the main drivers of the ongoing environmental transformation of the Arctic and is the leading signal of global warming. For more than four decades, the Arctic sea ice extent has declined almost continuously. However, the sea ice trend is accelerating for all calendar months, meaning larger losses towards present time.

All surprised

The fact is that the sea ice that reflects sunlight is melting away. This results is the darker ocean below absorbing more energy. Losing sea ice also means it no longer restricts the ability of warmer sea waters to heat up the Arctic air. The more ice is lost, the more heat accumulates, forming a feedback loop.

“We expected to see strong warming, but not on the scale we found,” said Ketil Isaksen, senior researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and who led the work.

Such a increase in temperature will have a major impact.

Ketil Isaksen, senior researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute

“We were all surprised. From what we know from all other observation points on the globe, these are the highest warming rates we have observed so far, Isaksen said to The Guardian.

Better understanding

If the rise in ocean temperature and salinity continues, the originally cold and stratified Arctic shelf region may be transformed into an Atlantic-dominated climate regime with a warmer and more well-mixed water column strongly preventing sea ice formation.

However, the Barents sea ice cover is largely affected by sea ice transported from the Arctic Ocean, and events of sudden enlarged sea ice or freshwater influx to the region may revert or postpone this Atlantification.

Isaksen said to NRK that he hopes the new study from will contribute to a better understanding of what is happening and will happen in the Arctic.

“Such a increase in temperature will have a major impact on wildlife, the natural environment and the Arctic population. Those who live in these areas depend on snow, ice and cold to live where they do, he says

Scientists find new indicators of Alaska permafrost thawing

More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate change, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists.

The scientists said the spread of taliks—volumes of unfrozen ground within areas of permafrost—has major implications for the movement of carbon among organisms, minerals and the atmosphere. Taliks will also affect the transfer in water of material such as nutrients and increase development of thermokarsts, areas of sunken land formed by the thawing of permafrost.

Their findings were reported today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Louise Farquharson, a research assistant professor, authored the paper. Geophysics Professor Emeritus Vladimir Romanovsky, research assistant professor Alexander Kholodov and research associate professor Dmitry Nicolsky are co-authors. All four are with the Geophysical Institute’s Permafrost Laboratory. Romanovsky, Kholodov and Nicolsky are also affiliated with institutions in Russia.

“We’re in a transition phase where we commonly see talik formation but also can see them refreeze if we have a year with low snow and very cold winter temperatures or a cool summer,” Farquharson said. “After approximately 2030, however, our air temperatures in the summer and winter will warm up enough that we’re going to have talik formation no matter what the snow does.”

“I think it’s important for people to know that what we have seen so far with permafrost degradation in Fairbanks, for example, is not a steady state,” she said. “The rate and extent of permafrost degradation is probably going to accelerate as talik development really kicks in.”

Taliks can occur at a variety of locations: between the top of the permafrost and the bottom of the seasonally frozen layer, within the permafrost due to water flow and within the permafrost due to previous thaw events, such as after a lake has drained. They can also cut through the whole permafrost column where permafrost is thin, often due to the presence of rivers or lakes.

More taliks will form in a wider area of Alaska as summer and winter temperatures increase and the depth of summer ground thaw begins to exceed the depth of winter freeze.

Consequences can include, for example, the new water’s movement of material previously locked in frozen ground. Dissolved organic carbon, dissolved nitrogen and contaminants such as mercury could eventually find their way into streams and rivers.

A spreading degradation of permafrost will also create challenges for new construction and maintenance of existing buildings and other infrastructure.

The scientists analyzed ground temperature data from 1999 to 2020 collected at dozens of Alaska sites in the Permafrost Laboratory monitoring network. They then selected 54 of those sites for study, encompassing an area of approximately 116,000 square miles.

Of the 54, scientists observed incomplete freezing and the early stages of talik formation at 24 sites in the winter of 2017-2018, up from three the previous year.

In the past, taliks were primarily associated with rivers and thaw lakes and in areas affected by wildfires, which remove thermally protective vegetation and therefore allow for deeper summer thaw. None of the sites studied by the UAF team had been affected by disturbances such as surface water bodies or wildfire.

Talik formation in the study area accelerated in earnest in 2017-2018 due to higher air temperature and above average snowfall, the scientists found. Because of its insulating properties, heavy snow slows the transfer of heat from the ground to the atmosphere, thereby lengthening the amount of time needed for the ground to refreeze and, in some cases, preventing a complete refreeze.

The research team’s modeling and observations show that talik formation at the study sites occurred only briefly in the 50 to 60 years prior to 2017-2018.

The team also writes that current assessments and projections about permafrost thaw are underestimating the extent of the thaw because they do not include the impact of widespread talik formation.

The researchers projected that, under the high emissions scenario of the International Panel on Climate Change, talik formation by 2030 will have begun across up to 70% of the discontinuous permafrost zone, regardless of snow conditions. By 2090 talik thickness in areas of black spruce forest and warmer ecosystems may reach 40 feet.

“Our climate trajectory is likely going to make talik formation an important driver of permafrost degradation in the discontinuous permafrost zone and eventually, as temperatures continue to warm, in the continuous permafrost zone further north,” Farquharson said. “And not only in Alaska but also in other Arctic regions.”

“Talik formation is going to become a really important mechanism of permafrost degradation,” she said.

Weather whiplash

Thousands of cows are killed by extreme heat and humidity amid freak weather in Kansas as shocking video shows rows of cattle laying dead – with temperatures set to hit 110F in days

Video shows thousands of dead cows lying in the dirt reportedly in Kansas
The state said extreme heat and humidity had killed the cattle last weekend
Western Kansas and Texas are expected to hit 110 degrees in the coming days

Freak hailstorm leaves cars stuck in ‘sleet and snow’ in Mexico City

A freak hailstorm left roads across Mexico City covered in sleet, causing traffic jams and some cars to become stuck.

Nathaniel Parish Flannery shared footage on social media of the “serious storm” on Monday (13 June), adding that a number of vehicles were stuck in a few inches of “wet snow and sleet”.Other videos from recent days show just how extreme the weather has been, with a video of a supermarket ceiling collapsing during the hailstorm also shared online.

Water crisis: Pakistan to run dry in three years

Pakistan is facing a severe water shortage. The average reduction of water in the major water stores of Pakistan has been recorded at around 40%. Water reduction in Mangla Dam alone has reached 920% — yes: you read that right.

The Tarbela and Mangla dams are the two biggest reservoirs operational in Pakistan. They have a combined ability to store water for 30 days only. In comparison, the US and India can store their waters for 900 and 190 days, respectively.

Due to a shortage of dams, Pakistan can store only 0.09% of the total water it receives annually. The current environmental conditions are harsh. If a few additional small-scale dams are built, much of the wasted water can be saved. Every year Pakistan is hit with floods. In addition to storing water, sufficient dams could also have saved thousands of affected people belonging in the flooded areas. In particular, this shortage is negatively affecting the lives of people living in the southern regions.

The current wave of water scarcity is not sudden. Successive governments have been warned on multiple occasions about the gravity of the issue. According to a report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan ranks third in the world among countries facing acute water shortages.

By 2025, the country is expected to reach a record water shortage. To quote the Pakistan Council on Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), Pakistan could “run dry” in less than three years. The extent of the issue is such that, regardless of an individual province’s position on water capacity now, every Pakistani citizen will find themself short on water.

The increasing population has also worsened the water indicators for the future. Pakistan is the fourth largest user of water in the world. The UN estimates that by 2050 the population of Pakistan will reach over 380 million. This will have an exponential effect on water supply, which is already expected to remain below par for the 220 million we are today.

On the one hand, water is getting short, and on the other, the number of consumers is growing rapidly. The population bomb Pakistan is sitting on is arguably the least highlighted problem. With the relevant channelling of the water issue, population explosion should also find an ear of the authorities.

Pakistan is also among the countries likely to be most hit by the looming shadow of climate change. Extremely high temperatures have added fuel to the fire. Ample availability of water is also a necessity to deal with the heat.

The comforting prospect of the mess is that policymakers have finally recognized the economy as a core factor of national security. The first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) of Pakistan declares the economy as one of the main indicators of national security.

However, the architects of the NSP and other policies must link water with economic prosperity. Pakistan’s economy is mostly agrarian. It is now not hard to conceive how closely water and the economy are intertwined. If not coped within time, it will affect big chunks of our economy. Cotton, for example, is a necessary raw material used in the textile industry. Water insufficiency can lead to underproduction which will reduce exports. More rupee devaluation means more inflation.

Similarly, sugar and related crops are highly water-intensive. The country barely meets the challenge of sugar and wheat shortages. One can imagine the scale of crop deficiency and the resultant price hike if the farmlands are not supplied with adequate amounts of water.

If a befitting attitude is applied towards the immediate needs of the country, the subject of water as a determinant of national security can and should find its way up to the higher echelons. Only when this lost cause has found its way into mainstream issues can the next steps be followed. Building dams for preserving water in the ‘off-season’, reforming the incompetent bureaucracy concerned with water, complying with international climate goals, et cetera, are necessary to avoid the haunting circumstances of the near future.

Leaders (read: megalomaniacs) in the upcoming elections should start talking about water scarcity and mismanagement so that this threatening issue is realized on a national level. It is time to do away with dam politics and collaborate for once on the water crisis. After all, the availability of water in Pakistan is no less than a matter of national security.

I was finally convinced by the following. SPOILER:

Have you ever heard of it snowing aluminium?