Why the massive ice melt in Greenland should terrify you

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Martyn Bradbury
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Greenland ice melt is so extreme, it is happening at worst case scenario rates not expected until 2070.

Just pause and consider that.

It’s melting 50 years faster than Scientists predicted, last week it was reported that the ice sheet lost 11 billion tons of ice – in just one day.

So what you say.

Greenland is melting at a worst case scenario 50 years early, how does that impact the rest of us?

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In a terrifying manner I’m afraid.

The Atlantic Circulation current takes warn water from the tropics and takes it north allowing most of Europe to have a temperate climate, the fresh water pouring off Greenland dumps into the Labrador Sea, which is one of the most important sea pumps for the Atlantic Circulation, if the water around the Labrador Sea desalinates because of the fresh water, the Atlantic Circulation shuts down, warm water stops going north and Europe’s climate becomes catastrophic.

It’s happening now, the Atlantic Circulation is weaker now than it has been for 1600 years.

We are seeing the last canary die in the coal mine. Catastrophic climate change is here, we have run out of time. Our collective denial has made it impossible to stop climate change, our only hope now is radical adaptation.

15 COMMENTS

  1. Sometimes when scientists find that their models consistently fail to predict events they go back and re consider their original theory. Like maybe they are attributing warming to the wrong cause in this case. Might it not be time to do this?
    D J S

    • No, David. Warming is related to increasing carbon dioxide, methane, and other substances we casually spew into the atmosphere. Time to move past notions of “some other cause”. The cause is US, no one or nothing else.

    • Shutting down Oceanic currents with fresh water has been well studied. We don’t often hear about these random discoveries in nature precisely because that’s how climate denial works by drowning them out.

      The idea being and this is just me commenting on human beings creating artificial oceans. So the idea is with these artificial giga structures humanity is creating can cause much more severe earthquakes because they go over all of the fault lines. I just don’t think people truly comprehend how powerful humanity truly is.

      So how should humanity confront nature when humanity is literally a geological factor. How could we possibly confront something that is so crazy and destructive. For example think about what kind of disaster that had to happen millions of years ago so that we could have oil. Nature is literally a long never ending string of disasters.

      So we have to research and develop science & technology. Science and technology maybe causing problems but at the same time they are the solutions. The solution is not to feel more organic with Mother Nature and suppress humanities urges and excesses.

      Our economy should remain open and everyone should keep on working on solutions that differ greatly from America’s and Chinese spend at all cost notions by creating better products & services than there’s.

      • Our disaster will be local shortage of food.
        NZ needs to look more toward self reliance across the regions.

        That is the economy that we can do that does not rely on international trade patterns and events

        • Well I think we should expect violence. Not the kind of state violence we expect but we need a kind of social discipline. I just don’t think the workforce is respected quite nearly enough. To cut this short I am opposed to an insular economy that is to scared to swim in the ocean. I think that’s to mystical.

          The reason I disagree with trade barriers is because it constructs an opposition. Graham T Allison Jr coined the phrase Thusydide’s Trap meaning war is inevitable when a great power is challenged by a rising power.

          When poorer nations see our high standards of living are locked behind trade barriers, that’s when I think our government has a responsibility to move away from Thusydide’s Trap by maintaining the balance of trade and investment though out the South Pacific and wider world.

  3. We are going to face the reality of war for resources before we die from the actual climate change per se.
    It’s time to stop beating on our farmers – who’s carbon footprint is less than the overseas feedlot cattle which would replace them if they restocked and invest heavily in military technology and strengthen our alliance with Australia and the US. Boats, subs, drones, more sub and ship killer planes. Missile defence.
    Compulsory military service and arm the population.
    Australia should nuclear arm.
    The sight of landing boats coming ashore isn’t going to look any better out the window of your electric vehicle.

    • Get rid of the cattle we don’t need them not their stuffing up our rivers and atmosphere..

      They are equivalent to 90 million humans shitting at will.

  6. With Brexit shutting down British immigration to Europe plus the combination of much colder winters with the Gulf Stream shutting down I expect NZ to get an influx of Poms.

    I wonder when we’ll change strategy from attempting to avoid global warming to recognising that it is inevitable and prepare for the consequences ala Martin’s fortress Aotearoa strategy.

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