Reprinted from www.dailykos.com by rktect
Abrupt Climate Change forced by 30 some odd self reinforcing feedback loops is making it possible to observe what was projected by the IPCC to occur by the end of the century now.
You may have missed this news as there is a lot going on with the Donald.
These Methane releases are what Hansen warned of as the Clathrate Gun, or in other words the tipping points have tipped.
Methane Hydrate releases in the arctic as warned of by Sam Carana are now reported by NOAA to be 150 miles across. You will remember that even slight releases of methane in the arctic were enough to cause polar researchers like Jason Box to freak out a little over a year ago.
Jason BoxMethane is orders of magnitude worse than CO2 and its being released in 50 Gigaton
"@climate_iceIf even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we're f'd.
8:43 AM - 29 Jul 2014
A year ago we began to observe warmer arctic water temperatures high enough to melt sea ice because of the Methane releases.
Sea surface temperatures as high as 18.8 degreesC are now recorded at locations where warm water from the Pacific Ocean is threatening to invade the Arctic Ocean.
That was all a year ago but like many people I was still looking at the IPCC projections which would be reasonably accurate if you cut the time scale in half.
Its good that while Trump continues to be all the media is interested in, we now have the ability here to teach each other to recognize that Black Lives Matter and Black and Brown people in the United States are being shot dead by cops every day or maybe worse incarcerated in private prisons where men women and children are being forced to perform slave labor as if the plantations of the Civil War had just been moved to some private penitentiary but meanwhile our Life Expectancy as a species may now be compared to that of someone in their seventies who has stage four cancer.