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Climate change: Satellite maps warming impact on global glaciers - 2023

Baltoro

Glaciers are not easy targets for any type of satellite to measure mass loss over time


Scientists have obtained their best satellite assessment yet of the status of the world's glaciers.

Europe's Cryosat satellite tracked the 200,000 or so glaciers on Earth and found they have lost 2,720bn tonnes of ice in 10 years due to climate change.

That's equivalent to losing 2% of their bulk in a decade.

Monitoring how quickly glaciers are changing is important because millions of people rely on them for water and farming.

Climate change: recent, rapid ocean warming alarms scientists - 2023

sun over the oceabn

A recent, rapid heating of the world's oceans has alarmed scientists concerned that it will add to global warming.

This month, the global sea surface hit a new record high temperature. It has never warmed this much, this quickly.

Scientists don't fully understand why this has happened.

But they worry that, combined with other weather events, the world's temperature could reach a concerning new level by the end of next year.

Experts believe that a strong El Niño weather event - a weather system that heats the ocean - will also set in over the next months.

What is biodiversity and how are we protecting it?

 

Baby Amur leopard also known as the Manchurian leopard, at the Parc des felins, in Nesles, south-eastern Paris.

Amur leopards are one of the most endangered species in the world


Targets to reverse the decline of biodiversity by 2030 may be missed without urgent action, according to a new report.

This goal was a key part of the UN global summit on biodiversity held in December 2022.

Nearly a third of all monitored species are currently endangered due to human activities.

Graeme Greene book "The New Big 5" - a photo book of endangered species - 2023

"From the towering giraffe to the bright orange and blue rock agama to the deep-sea anglerfish that produces its own light, we live alongside creatures that are a match for anything science fiction writers have imagined to populate alien worlds," writes Graeme Green in his book The New Big 5, published this month. In April 2020, the wildlife photographer launched a project to flip the idea of the "Big 5" of trophy hunting on its head, inviting people around the world to vote online for their five favourite animals to photograph and see in photos; the New Big 5 of wildlife photography, as decided by the public vote, are the elephant, polar bear, lion, gorilla, and tiger.

Spotted torrent frog, Santa Barbara Park, Ecuador, Lucas Bustamante; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) status: Critically Endangered (Credit: Lucas Bustamante)

Spotted torrent frog, Santa Barbara Park, Ecuador, Lucas Bustamante; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) status: Critically Endangered (Credit: Lucas Bustamante)

Biodiversity targets may be slipping out of reach - 2023

White stork

The researchers studied more than 600 species of birds and mammals


Ambitious targets to halt the decline in nature may already be slipping out of reach, a study suggests.

Scientists say the effects of climate change and habitat loss on animal populations have been underestimated.

They say bringing back wildlife may take longer than expected and that unless we act now global biodiversity targets will be out of reach.

In December almost 200 countries agreed to halt the decline in nature by the end of the decade.

2023 - Accelerating melt of ice sheets now unmistakable.

Greenland Ice Sheet

Warmer air is melting the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet

If you could shape an ice cube out of all the ice losses from Greenland and Antarctica over the past three decades, it would stand 20km high.

An international group of scientists who work with satellite data say the acceleration in the melting of Earth's ice sheets is now unmistakable.

They calculate the planet's frozen poles lost 7,560 billion tonnes in mass between 1992 and 2022.

Seven of the worst melting years have occurred in the past decade.

Mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica is now responsible for a quarter of all sea-level rise.

This contribution is five times what it was 30 years ago.

The latest assessment comes from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, or Imbie.

Climate Roadmap - 2023

Today, In 2023, Humanity is facing a catastrophic human-induced climate crisis which seriously threatens our very survival. 

Fundamentally, Humanity is faced with this climate crisis for a few principal reasons, which are important to understand in order to advocate the best solutions.

 

  1. Pollution (including that of overpopulated species, which can be seen from the point of view of Earth as a form of toxic pollution) does not recognize national boundaries and borders while Earth is subdivided politically into self-regulating nation-states, which regulate, or fail to regulate, pollution and population for their own people and territories.

 

PLANETARY REALIGNMENT

PLANETARY REALIGNMENT

Once the Earth is ice-free, and probably just before, in my opinion, due to a major change in the distribution of weight on the surface of Earth, Earth, which currently has a slight wobble in its rotation on its tilted axis, (probably in part because of the ice at the poles), should shift on its axis, so that a different tilt and a greater or lesser wobble will result. This shift will probably also include a change in the rotational speed of Earth. This entire area needs further study. Research is needed to quantify the changes in the angle of tilt, the wobble and the rotational speed, as well as to determine what effects such changes will have on both earth and Humanity; for example plate tectonics, volcanology, magnetism, Earth's magnetic shield, tides, etc. in addition to daily time-keeping and the change in the length of a day.

ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CURRENTS

ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CURRENTS

 

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