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With a sudden change in climate, we simply will not have time to compensate for food production. Crops will suddenly fail and near global famine will set in quickly perhaps in months. [Read more →]

Tags: Analysis, Antarctica, Artic, Nature, Series, United States by Richard
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The last chance global warming summit for the most part was a failure. And listening to the inconsistency of the spin from each country on the outcome simply spells despair. [Read more →]

Tags: Analysis, Antarctica, Artic, Nature, Series, United States by Richard
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In some disaster movies there is an ingenious idiot that seems to bypass or disable some safety feature or failsafe causing a horrendous catastrophe. As with all good movies, they have their basis in reality, and in Copenhagen during the last chance climate summit we may have just seen that happen. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, Denmark, Indonesia, International Politics, Nature, Unfortunate Realities, United Nations, United States by Richard
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Admittedly this could be rephrased for a ‘B’ movie titled “It came from the ice”, but we are not talking movies. What we are talking about are viruses and other biologicals that have been frozen in the ice thousands of years and are now melting out from global warming. The biggest concern is we may have no natural resistance to them. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, Health, Nature by Richard
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Hurricane Katrina most certainly make it’s mark in the minds of many in America as it flooded New Orleans, but that is nothing when compared to what is coming when all that ice in Antarctica finally melts when global warming takes over. If you can imagine inland cities like Hartford Connecticut becoming beach front cities, then you will have some idea of just how much ice is getting ready to melt. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Greenland, Nature, United States by Richard
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As the earth continues to warm we start to pass tipping points in different parts of the world. At some point not too long from now we will pass the final tipping point that will set off rapid and major changes all with undesirable consequences. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Artic, China, Greenland, Nature, Thailand, United States by Richard
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Being wrong about how fast global warming will change our planet seems to be the norm. As we have no models to use as templates, our best scientists best guesses are off actual times by several decades. The bad part is the actual times are much sooner than what was predicted. [Read more →]

Tags: Antarctica, Greenland, Nature by Richard
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