Climate Disruption in Overdrive: Submerged Cities and Melting That "Feeds on Itself"

[marmar]

Climate Disruption in Overdrive: Submerged Cities and Melting That "Feeds on Itself"

Monday, 28 March 2016 12:28
By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report


As the presidential campaign circus dominates headlines across the US, glaring signs the planet is undergoing abrupt anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) abound.

A major study published in Nature Climate Change shows that the planet is warming a stunning 50 times faster than when it comes out of an ice age. The implications of the rapidity of this warming, for those who care to digest it emotionally, are horrifying.

The study shows that even if carbon reduction targets are achieved and the planet's temperature is kept below the 2 degree Celsius warming threshold, sea-level rise will still inundate major coastal cities around the world, forcing one-fifth of the total world population of humans to migrate away from the coasts. New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Cairo, Kolkata and Shanghai will all be underwater.

As though to reinforce this point, NASA recently released data confirming that February was the warmest month ever measured globally, at 1.57 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial baseline temperature average. The new record easily smashed the old global temperature record, which was set just one month before, in January.

This means that while it took from the advent of the industrial age until October 2015 to warm the planet 1 degree Celsius, humans have managed to warm the planet another .57 degrees Celsius in just the next four months since then. ...........(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35398-climate-disruption-in-overdrive-submerged-cities-and-melting-that-feeds-on-itself

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now

and we plod along

[mountain grammy]

3. +1

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. We hit the tipping point some years ago

It should have been the #1 topic on every news outlet 10 times a day.

I remember reading On the Beach when I was a young teenager, and wondering for the longest time what it would feel like, sitting on that beach, knowing that death and destruction was hurtling towards you.

Minus the definition of "hurtling", now I know.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

5. yep

thanks for your many post that keep this issue on these pages

[mountain grammy]

2. K & R

[CrispyQ]

6. Ya know, if I posted a comment & a link to this story on my FB page,

I would get maybe 1-2 'likes.' But if I post a stupid pic of my cat, half my friends will like & comment.

We are so fucked.

[Bigmack]

8. YES!!!!!! nt

[AuntPatsy]

7. K&R

So true