The year 2007 is interesting. According
to David Spratt's September
2013 report, "Is Climate Already Dangerous?" we crossed the planetary Rubicon
in 2007 at about 0.76 degrees centigrade of global warming. Maybe I felt it" Maybe
you felt it too? At this point, not only had Arctic sea-ice passed its tipping
point, but the Greenland Ice Sheet was not far behind. (Reference:
www.scribd.com/doc/168483927/Already-Dangerous-1)
Adding
to the mounting evidence behind 2007 as the point of no return, Malcolm Light concluded
on 22 December 2013, "We have passed the methane hydrate tipping point and are
now accelerating into extinction as the methane hydrate 'Clathrate Gun' has
begun firing volleys of methane into the Arctic atmosphere." (Reference:
https://sites.google.com/site/runawayglobalwarming/the-non-disclosed-extreme-arctic-methane-threat)
According to Light's analysis, the temperature of Earth's atmosphere will resemble that of Venus before 2100. Two weeks later, in an essay stressing near-term human extinction, Light concluded: "The Gulf Stream transport rate started the methane hydrate (clathrate) gun firing in the Arctic in 2007 when its energy/year exceeded 10 million times the amount of energy/year necessary to dissociate subsea Arctic methane hydrates."(Reference: Malcolm Light http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-and-the-gulf-stream.html) (Reference: Malcolm Light http://arctic-news.blogspot.de/p/global-extinction-within-one-human.html)
The
clathrate gun began firing in 2007, the same year the extent of Arctic sea ice
reached a tipping point. But who knew it?(Reference:
www.the-cryosphere.net/7/275/2013/tc-7-275-2013.html)
Because of my research, my new collaboration partners at www.planetaryculture.com asked me to submit a blog paragraph about what the United Nations needs to know about methane and global warming for a paper they will read at the United Nations' Climate Summit set for 23 September 2014 in New York City. (Reference: www.un.org/climatechange/climate-summit-2014)
I took Planetary Culture' writing offer seriously. Perhaps I was naà ¯ve. My commitment threw me hard down into a rabbit hole in which I have not yet hit bottom. I quickly found intense new information published since my 2008 research spree that pertained to the methane "clathrate gun" (which I would now name the "clathrate cannon").
Maddeningly, every shred of new evidence only reveals that the situation we are in is far more menacing and frightening than anyone anywhere ever suspected, even in their worst nightmares. We are talking here, folks, about near-term human extinction due to global warming, possibly as soon as 2050.
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