Mass Extinction: Let’s Not
Published on Sep 28, 2013: “Last Hours” is the first […]
Date Posted:
January 10, 2014
Published on Sep 28, 2013: “Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra, and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very existence of human life on this planet.
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“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed and performed by Francesco Lupica.
Peter Sinclair notes: Thom Hartmann has produced a pretty scary, but rather accurate, piece here.
I’ve been thinking about the fine line between creating a sense of urgency vs a sense of hopelessness. There a natural urge among some folks to cut right to the “hopeless” phase, without actually wanting to do something about the problem.
There’s a lot of internet chatter about imminent doom for human civilization. And yes, I’m talking about you, Guy MacPherson.
This is, first of all, incorrect. Secondly, not helpful.
Even the worst case scenarios in the fossil record played out over millennia, and the experts I’ve talked to are pretty clear that no one, or at least very few, are expecting any kind of catastrophic single event in the coming few decades.
Important to remember that projected climate change impacts are a bell curve, as Stephen Schneider used to say, with “good for you” at one end, and “end of the world” on the other. Both those extremes are the most unlikely scenarios – but there’s a whole lot of that curve on this side of “end of the world” that we would still very much not like to see happen.Planet Earth is going to take a hit in the coming century. It falls mainly to the generation of human beings currently alive to decide if that’s going to be a 5 percent hit, a 50 percent hit, or a 90 percent hit. URL
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Interesting. kinda frightening if correct
Have we struck the match & ignited the inferno? Do we have time to
mitigate and correct our course?
Science is science.
Last Hours
‘ “Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet. ‘
We cannot ignore the overwhelming evidence that shows we impacting our
environment in negative ways. http://ow.ly/pHuTd
Have another beer please. Can’t understand a foolish believe system as
that. I suppose the world is flat and we are tortured by witches. Please
use your brain.
It goes on constantly. Isn’t that great! We are amazingly adaptive.
You don’t need a degree to figure out that we’re being lied to about
Climate Change. And even if Climate Change was nearly as dramatic as it is
being presented all the time, it certainly gives no one the right to impose
regulation on me based on this or tax the shit outta me to make me a good
climate slave. If you’re female, please realize that it is thanks to
industrialization, that you are not being oppressed and treated as equal.
So if anything you should root for more industrialization.
“So why should we risk these catastrophic events?” Because the power
released by burning fossil fuels, the economic activity whose side effect
is deforestation, etc., is very USEFUL to many people and institutions.
It doesn’t appear our kids are going to have a pleasant future if we carry
on with our continued path of ecological destruction. You don’t have to
agree with everything in this documentary, but if we keep ignoring the
scientists and carry on, I worry about the long term consequences.
Bull Shit.
An energy revolution is coming, you can make millions from the shift to
clean energy. Stop denying on get on board now while you can. In ten years,
clean energy will be what google is to the internet. It’s going to happen
with or without you.
Google drunken trees. Then report back to head quarters.
Also, a fun fact: The Ice Age isn’t even fully over, and life will
adapt…unless something fucked up happens, which is highly unlikely.
how the hell do they know how many times this has happened? and when its
what? 450 million years ago…
^^ life will adapt ^^ How insane! Do you know what adaptation means? It
means death for those specimens not adatped. It’s simple. We could usher an
age of misery or we could take simple steps to reduce our impact on ecology
and biodiversity. It starts with smaller family size. EVERY habitat problem
has a number of humans as a factor.
Damn … I was hoping the human race would die out a lot sooner than this
is predicting. The world is filling up so quickly with ignorant, self
absorbed fucktards that the sooner it happens the better in my opinion :)
Go read a book.
And before I go to bed, some cheerful news.
Also, a handy website that summarizes our situation:
http://planetextinction.com/
I believe in climate change, but people have used that particular argument,
the ontological argument, to justify so many things, including cults and
dictatorships.
*”**+Last Hours**”* is the first in a series of short films that explore
the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
(10 mins) lasthours.org
“Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the
perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each
subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race,
and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film
series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the
2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated
globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers
associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet.
The world community and global citizens urgently need to chart a path
forward that greatly reduces green house gas emissions.
“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by
Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last
Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was
written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed
and performed by Francesco Lupica.
http://lasthours.org/
Last Hours
“Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the
perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each
subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race,
and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film
series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the
2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated
globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers
associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet.
The world community and global citizens urgently need to chart a path
forward that greatly reduces green house gas emissions.
“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by
Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last
Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was
written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed
and performed by Francesco Lupica.
http://lasthours.org/
Last Hours
*”**+Last Hours**”* is the first in a series of short films that explore
the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
(10 mins) lasthours.org
LAST HOURS
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A thought provoking documentary
Last Hours
Even propaganda on global warming. =_= All of our solar system and planet
have warmed, the sun is the cause, so if you want to cool the earth, you
need to cool the sun. this works per cycle, everything is natural, but when
man decides to play with the ignorance of others, he sees a good way to
make money by taxing the sheep, claiming that it is our fault. Not only is
the warming has ceased from 15 years, but we begin the cycle of cooling, it
is urgent to tax you, before you notice the scam. :P
Of course, I have no calls people to pollute, but we must open our eyes
and not be manipulated by governments, in French, the word “gouvernement”
comes from two separate words, “gouverner” (govern) and “mentir” (lie), the
words still have meaning :D
Many? Evidence please.
you must search a bit, I have articles and interviews with climatologists
French, but in English, it is more complicated, as I said, propaganda comes
from the United States, then it does not help not, but as I see some people
here prefer to note my comments in spam, it is simpler to believe
everything we say, continue to believe, as September 11, 2001. traduisez
cette interview, ce sera un bon début. h t t p : / / w w w . pensee-unique
. fr/leroux.pdf
Think you can’t DO ANYTHING to help the ENVIRONMENT?
You can > VOTE for Democrats. Recycle. Stop buying stuff you don’t need.
Travel less. Eat organic food.
I am astounded we have to keep talking about some of this. Like recycling.
I see so many recyclables in my local garbage. What has happened? Why isn’t
everyone recycling everything or taking their own cups etc. to events? &
the only way we are going to get the green energy changes our world needs
is by policy change.
Everyone oohs and ahhs when they see the beauty of our world, but then it
seems like brains switch off when people have to DO anything to help it.
THE PLANET NEEDS OUR HELP NOW.
IMPORTANT > Last Hours Video by Thom Hartmann
It is indisputable that CO2 rises and temperature rises are linked, its
happen before in the history of our planet, with no human action, take the
Permian mass extinction for example. The question isn’t whether CO2 causes
warming, its whether or not we’re the ones doing it, and, if you look at
the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and see when they started rapidly rising,
you’ll notice it happened right around the time of the industrial
revolution.
And, even if our contribution to the global temperature increases is
minimal, shouldn’t we be doing all we can to keep them as low as possible?
Not just for some hippy “safe the planet” type deal, but for our own sakes,
for our children’s sakes, for our grandchildren, and all the future
generations. I’d much prefer we do all we can to stop climate change, and
find out it was nothing to be worried about after all, than to do nothing,
and find out we’re the cause.
Co² rise temperature -> totaly wrong ! h t t p : / / youtu . be /
pWma5e3CVj0 first look reveals that the independent people, and then if you
want to continue to debate, that will be a good foundation for the time you
just throw the propaganda of governments, and I have other things to do
than to answer.
You discribe writ of law prefectly. If the carbon tax is too light then the
industries just pass it on to the consumers. If you make it too high they
shut down. There is no middle ground. So either you do nothing but raise
prices or you cause a sudden shutdown brought on by writ of law. Both of
those choices are bad.
The Madeiran Large White went extinct because of the use of fertilizer and
construction, not CO2. The Golden Toad went extinct in 1989. The Baiji
Dolphin in 2007. So the “Mass extiction that has already begun” according
to rprohbeck is just 2 in 18 years. Hardly massive. As to the 82% fish
figure you tossed out. It is a meaningless made up number. Nobody can
actually know something like that. What they have is computer code that
churned out a number.
it blows my mind that the comments under a video like this end up being
more about weather climate change is real or caused by humans or lets blame
government my favorite is concern for the economic impact of steps taken to
curb climate change if its real and we do nothing we are all dead i think
giving up some junk and money may be even suffering a little would seem
better then continuing the way things are and taking the chance that we are
all dead any ways
“Fertilizer and construction” = pollution. Not CO2 pollution, but still
pollution. And, as far as I know, Climate Change has been around since the
industrial revolution, it was hypothesized even back then. maybe not
accurately, but the general idea was put forward. And you’re right, no one
can know, because this is the first time anything like it has happened in
the course of human history. Computer’s are the best chance of knowing what
will happen.
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN REPUBLICONS DESTROYED THE WORLD ?
no buddy,,, corporations own your government , democrats as well ,,,
This is a real & silent threat.
Underground, underwater and below the ice.
A time bomb is ticking.
Scientists are seeing the evidence.
Runaway climate change could be closer than we think.
Underground, underwater and below the ice.
A time bomb is ticking.
Scientists are seeing the evidence.
Runaway climate change could be closer than we think.
I stopped watching when he said that climate change could end all life on
earth. Don’t get me wrong, climate change is a real threat to humanity and
many species but it wouldn’t mean the end of all life on earth. Life has
survived way worse. Even if it’s only bacteria and other simple organisms,
life on earth will go on. We are at a weird adolescent stage where we can
destroy ourselves but not a planet.
Did you hear about the Permian mass extinction? Life almost didn’t survive
that, and it was because of climate change.
Computers do the nasty calculations we don’t like. Take 1835720*901284932,
I can’t say I’d enjoy doing that, if it needed to be done. Computers don’t
do the thinking for us, we do the thinking, and, after telling to computers
our thinking, they do the nasty calculations, which we could do, but, to
save time, and effort, we don’t. I daresay that when checking your expenses
on your credit card you don’t add it up in your head. (cont)
And you’re 100% correct, the climate has always changed, and always will
change, but never this rapidly. Not once in human history have we seen
400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. We can’t know what will happen based off
calculations done off the top of our head, we need computers to crunch the
numbers so we can analyse them and apply them to the world. And, as a side
note, it is rather difficult to determine how species are dying, its mostly
conjecture and hypothesis.
In Australia, we have privatised power (really stupid, I know), if the
government where to slam the power industry with a massive carbon tax /
carbon pricing scheme, it would instantly force the highest polluters out
of business, and, if the money that was gathered from this tax / pricing
scheme was used to support businesses, then they could survive. Pushing the
most polluting power stations out of business and replacing them with gov.
ones, with a gov. operated power distributor, that (cont)
charged very little for power, majority of people would switch to them,
making it harder for coal power plants to get any form of revenue, and
making it easy for the government to buy back the power stations(not
exactly like this). Then they replace them all with Nuclear / renewables,
and could sell them back to private companies (if they really wanted to),
and not allow the building of any coal stations. It would be very hard on
people financially, but in the long run it would most likely help.
Governments keep the ability to produce power higher then demand. Its this
crazy idea that if something bad should happen we would like to still have
power to deal with the catastrophy. The UK is going to have a bunch of coal
fired plants shut down for good in 2014 for the reasons you stated. The
result will be that the energy reserve will be lowered from the 20% they
like to keep it at to 5%. They are expecting rolling blackouts when those
renewables aren’t producing in full.
Nuclear, my friend, nuclear.
I am fine with nuclear power, but you cannot build a nuclear plant in 6
days. It will take a few years before any new power plants (nuclear or
otherwise) are up and running to replace the coal plants shutting down.
Go to the climate4you website and on the left side select “Climate Models.”
(should be 3 from the bottom) If you can’t understand all of it make sure
you read the last section on “Computer models and the real world.” It
explains the problem with what you stated.
Not good news: “Pacific Ocean ‘warming 15 times faster than ever before”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pacific-ocean-warming-15-times-faster-than-ever-before-8916297.html…
#climatechange
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of #climateChange and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
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Seriously scary stuff. If you believe it, will you act on it?
Thanks Tom for you dedication…
Can you make this creative commons license? Thanks for sharing.. Sad..
Barack Obama: “In an effort to control global warming, due to methane
emissions, I have signed into law, by executive order, that all citizens,
legal, illegal or otherwise, will be required to fart in a bottle from now
on.”
in Italian: /watch?v=FZixJE3uhXw
Good call
Nice. Guy McPhersons describes over 20 irreversible positive feedback loops
already triggered and thus irreversible human near-term human extinction.
Yeah sure,scientists will save us, just as science invented the automobile,
the a-bomb and all the other garbage that has gotten us to this cul-de-sac.
Maybe scientists at Tepco will be our heroes !
Carbon budget is shot, likely shot before COP 15 Copenhagen Dec 09 ended.
Full force of human endeavor needs to be brought in spades using Act of God
Real to force Thermodynamically HZ age. Lag time and pulse of heat rise
hitting clathrate stability zone won’t be easily be reversed. There is
huge greenhouse hysteresis and planet shift underway. It is from below and
above and in movement of sky and Sea
This 10-minute film describes a science-based scenario where runaway
climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen methane… and
the melting of these trillions of tons of carbon is already underway.
man made climate change is a myth to cover the excistance of a second sun
in our solar system
Funny thing is the Permian–Triassic extinction event may or may not have
been caused by global warming. we dont even know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event#Causes_of_the_extinction_event
i diss agree with Joseph Sadlon that government can not do about i would
agree that we can not stop it right now but i do agree that we can prevent
are self form die out i believe that government. can spend money on bulled
project to build under ground colonies are perfection deices that convert
Methane to air and under ground farming for are food I call it Vault we
have technology and sci we can and will survive the extinction
Previous generations have to listen to preachers scare people that hell and
the end time is coming. Today they have been replaced by rent seeking
climate scientists telling the same thing! You are a sinner, repent. The
unscientific drivel in this video for something that isn’t happening has
reached anstronomical levels.
This scare hysteria borders on the comic. This so over the top that it’s
impossible to take it seriously. You even managed to top Al Gores comedy of
mass hysteria. Quite a feat.
You are definently not doing your cause a favor. Actually, this must be
helping the opposite camp quite a bit.
Pathetic.
This must be a parody.
New ice core evidence that Western Antarctica was warmer at times during
the last 300 years than it is today.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057782/abstract
These scare tactics are based on climate models that are beginning to
exceed their error bands.
http://www.academia.edu/4210419/Can_climate_models_explain_the_recent_stagnation_in_global_warming
We will eventually have to move away from fossil fuels and that will
happen, but I don’t see the need to propagandize unscientific people and
try to make them believe the world is ending like this misleading video
does.
The release of oceans of methane hydrate (currently frozen under tundra and
ocean beds) will cause a global warming spike that will undoubtedly
challenge the ability of all living forms to survive including
Homo-sapiens. I hope we prove smarter than bacteria on plated media that
will reproduce until they destroy themselves with their own waste products
or run out of food……..
At this point the only thing that can help us crash less violently, is a
radical and extreme change in our lifestyle. As long as we keep demanding
energy and industrial products, there will be a corporation that will
provide it to us.
CLIMATE CHANGE is coming whether you WANT IT OR NOT. humans have nothing to
do with it. AL GORE and other UN criminals are trying to pin the guilt onto
humans and make us sacrifice our freedoms (NWO, carbon currency,
chemtrails) thinking we got the climate on our conscience and we have to
save the planet when in fact the planet cant and wont be saved FROM the
climate changes. climate changes are occuring because they should be
occuring. its the planetary cycle ffs. WE DIDNT PROVOKE IT. C02 is absorbed
by water and it doesnt cause climate change. it is happening on itself and
we can do nothin about it. it is normal. the real problem are the global
elite who are making the world suffer! IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE PLANET GET
RID OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE POLUTING IT INTENTIONALLY FOR ECONOMICAL REASONS!
= CORPORATIONS!
Based on this, as they say in the movie “Snatch”, I’d say we’re pretty much
fucked.
Blablabla…!!! Another ridiculous frightening documentary which has
nothing to do with Life but with money, control and pseudo science…!!!
I have posted similar videos on my Facebook and of my 800+ friends, maybe 2
or 3 would ‘like’ it or share it, demonstrating our disinterest in these
all important matters and pretty much quashing any hope I have humanity can
change fast enough.
we need to bypass many phases and deal with this NOW. currently we are
caught up in denial, judgment, and intransigence… all resulting in
INACTION :(
Oh so its called “climate change” now. They twist their words when global
warming is now obviously bullshit. So many lies.
Great info, and nicely presented.
Your scientific credibility will be enhanced if you keep the Earth turning
the correct way, though (@~2:35 and again @ ~2:46). Do you suppose you
could get Jess & Derek to re-visit those sections?
The collapse in sea ice is the result of a vicious cycle of sea ice retreat, exposure of more water to warming, and further melt. This cycle became apparent, when the observed sea ice extent started to deviate from the IPCC models from 2007 which projected the sea ice lasting into the next century.
See this graphic: http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg46/SamCarana/85524386763845-625_zps60cd5cfb.jpg “Observed and Projected Arctic September Sea-Ice extent” based on IPCC AR4
The sea ice retreat is already having an effect on the world climate system, as witness the increase of climate extremes over the past decade. The way this happens is explained in this video: A New Climate State: Arctic Sea Ice 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYaubXBfVqo by Yale Climate Forum.
Note the ending from Dr Francis of Rutgers University: “The climate system is changing in front of our very eyes. You do not have to be a climate scientist. I like to hope that, if there is a silver lining in all of this, it is helping people to wake up and realise this is a big problem. It is happening now. It’s not happening generations from now. And we need to start doing something about it.”
The speed of this change is very alarming. Look at this graph of sea ice volume, showing a trend to ZERO for September 2015 – a month of ice-free Arctic Ocean: PIOMASS Exponential Trend (Ziang & Rothreek 2007) http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg46/SamCarana/85637858946-625_zpsa8d19ad4.png
Info from Arctic Methane Emergency Group – Arctic Sea Ice – Methane Release – Planetary Emergency – Sea ice crashes – AMEG was right http://ameg.me/index.php/2-ameg/42-sea-ice-crashes-2
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‘We’re F#cked!’ Conceptualising Catastrophe July 13, 2013
The inspiration for this came from Stephen Emmott’s recent sell-out play 10 Billion. At the end of the play, having reviewed the different ways in which humanity has altered Earth’s climate, the Oxford professor (and expert in complex natural systems) states ‘I think we’re already fucked’. This is a sentiment that has been surfaced by others, including US geophysicist Brad Werner in a conference paper last year. Indeed, short of the expletive, the theme of humanity’s suicidal trajectory in the Anthropocene has been highlighted by writers such as Clive Hamilton, Mark Lynas and George Monbiot. This has been reinforced with increasing urgency by scientists around the world, with US climate scientist James Hansen this week publishing a paper highlighting that ‘conceivable levels of human-made climate forcing could yield the low-end runaway greenhouse effect’ including ‘out-of-control amplifying feedbacks such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates’.
http://climatepeopleorg.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/were-fcked-conceptualising-catastrophe/
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On carbon transport and fate in the East Siberian Arctic land–shelf–atmosphere system (2012)
Igor P Semiletov, Natalia E Shakhova, Valentin I Sergienko, Irina I Pipko, and Oleg V Dudarev.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/1/015201/pdf/1748-9326_7_1_015201.pdf
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Assessing ‘‘Dangerous Climate Change’’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature by James Hansen et al. May 2013
“Methane hydrates – methane molecules trapped in frozen water
molecule cages in tundra and on continental shelves – and organic
matter such as peat locked in frozen soils (permafrost) are likely
mechanisms in the past hyperthermals, and they provide another
climate feedback with the potential to amplify global warming if
large scale thawing occurs [209–210]. Paleoclimate data reveal
instances of rapid global warming, as much as 5–6C, as a sudden
additional warming spike during a longer period of gradual
warming [see Text S1]. The candidates for the carbon injected
into the climate system during those warmings are methane
hydrates on continental shelves destabilized by sea floor warming
[211] and carbon released from frozen soils [212]. As for the
present, there are reports of methane release from thawing
permafrost on land [213] and from sea-bed methane hydrate
deposits [214], but amounts so far are small and the data are
snapshots that do not prove that there is as yet a temporal increase
of emissions. ”
http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pone-8-12-hansen.pdf
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Related on Climate State
http://climatestate.com/2014/01/09/thawing-permafrost-could-release-vast-carbon-deposits-diseases/
http://climatestate.com/2014/01/03/usgs-climate-hydrate-interactions/
http://climatestate.com/2013/12/23/permafrost-methane-time-bomb/
http://climatestate.com/2014/01/08/melting-point-greenland-2012-documentary/
http://climatestate.com/2014/01/05/antarcticas-ice-loss-on-the-rise-december-2013/
http://climatestate.com/2013/12/21/abrupt-climate-change-in-the-arctic-and-beyond-an-update/
http://climatestate.com/2013/11/22/arctic-sea-ice-minimum-volumes-1979-2013/
http://climatestate.com/2013/08/05/greenland-anomaly-late-season-melt-pulse-methane-emissions-august-4th-2013/
http://climatestate.com/2013/07/29/greenland-ice-sheet-starting-to-slip/
This is the most urgent message!! Be aware now!!
This is the ultimate human IQ test! Are we going to get a failing grade?
The price will be high, indeed.
My only concern with this film is that illustrations showing the current
configuration of continents existing at the time of the great Permian
extinction undermines the film’s scientific credibility. I understand,
however, that most people looking at an image of Pangea, the supercontinent
which existed at that geologic time would not necessarily associate it with
the world as we know it, but they could have superimposed the continents’
traced familiar shapes in order to make that point.
This is too important a matter to quibble over something as minor as this,
but given the vehemence of the opposition, I’d hate to give them something
as simple and obvious as that to point to.
We need to frame this as “Humans are killing themselves” in order for
people to act. This helps to end the “pansy environmentalist” narrative
capitalists continue to perpetuate. Even a selfish person wants to
prevent their own death.
All I hear is “blablabla”.. only talk. No action.
It’s possibly too late to correct these issues, 400 ppm Co2 is a death
sentence if we do not pump it out within 50 years. However if we stop
burning CO2 now it will avoid runaway just barely but we would still end up
with massive sea level rises and droughts.
This is a message to both radical sides of the argument. How about you
stop watching these types of videos which try get you in trans with this
weird music and finally for once listen what the climatologists have
actually to say.
Very interesting and informative video…
don’t worry Vierotchka,even then I still wouldn’t eat you,by that time we
will be enlighten to a higher conscious one way or another
google ARTIC NEWS for more info.
One of the best vids I have ever seen.
One of the best vids I have ever seen.
One of the best vids I have ever seen.
it just dawned on me.. the global economic system would die if it lost its
rights to extract petroleum (futures markets), and is not going to kill
itself. its just not.
since a cessation of industrial activity would remove dimming, it wouldn’t
do any good anyway.
we’re not going to stop pushing. climate change is not going to stop
accelerating, and the biosphere will not stop collapsing.
we need to begin, individually and in our own time, to accept this.
The human species is here for a good time; not for a long time. It is 100%
certain we will become extinct sometime in the future. Cockroaches and ants
will continue on, long after we’ve all perished. No doubt, there will be a
pod drifting somewhere in outer space containing the frozen remains of the
world’s richest man. All the money in the world will not buy our survival.
All the money in the world is actually just down payments for our hastened
extinction.
Are we willing to change our behavior or face the consequences???
Possessions, Jobs, and Money-or Life, for you, your friends, your family,
and future generations? You choose whichever one is more important people.
We are the only ones who can stop this; it starts with us,
Sorry to say this, but it’s already too late.
humans can’t go extinct anymore; not by natural causes: worst case
scenarios many die, and survivors live in bunkers powered by nuclear
energy. Only a second stupid, sorry, cold war turned hot could cause
extinction. As for the other life forms, well that’s the real issue.
There is a comment below that says voting Democrat will solve the problem.
I don’t think you really understand the problem. The answer to any problem
is rarely government.
Nobody is going to do anything to “curb carbon emissions” unfortunately.
Humanity is facing something new here, our collective IQ is not high enough
to solve this, so Nature is going to fix this problem for us.
There will be no soft landing; we’re passengers on a giant jetliner that’s
in a nosedive with all four engines cranked up to take-off power.
Thank you for these thought provoking videos … We all need to know these
things … I am telling everyone I know to investigate these articles … I
know truth when I hear it … What we are doing in the name of progress is
nothing short of criminal … And beyond sad …
In case you missed it. It won’t miss You !!!
#climatechange Last Warning , Last Hours….your worst nightmares may
became a reality IN YOUR LIFETIME !!!
I agree that things look grim. But it is our moral responsibility to do
everything possible to change the outcome. Social tipping points can also
be powerful.
I agree that things look grim. But it is our moral responsibility to do
everything possible to change the outcome. Social tipping points can also
be powerful.
‘Final six’ – Slayer
Why are scientists concerned about the gasses that lie underneath the polar
ice caps?
and then there are people who still think climate change is natural and its
A-O-K.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!!! Stop breathing oxygen, you are wasting it for the
rest of us who has braincells.
Time to go.
Corporations will not do anything but bring us to our end.
“Phytoplankton are photosynthesizing microscopic organisms that inhabit the
upper sunlit layer of almost all oceans and bodies of fresh water.
Phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s
atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.” —
Wikipedia
Kill the oceans and we die.
Blue Marble,
Breaking Badly:
Love that Crystal Meth.
It has only been 7 months since this video was published, but the basic
predictive claims presented here are continually being confirmed.
It is increasingly probable that a large burp of methane will be released
in the Arctic this summer.
By September or sooner we will know how much time we have left.
Clarion calls for cutting back on emissions are hopelessly naive.
Hell on earth is accelerating now.
Here is a 10 minute video everyone should see.