A couple of deluded and not very bright members here have posted links to 400 or so videos made by a liar-for-profit charlatan called Dubyne who says we are about to enter an ice age.
Funny old ice age!
The Arctic is rather warmer than average and sea ice extent there is at a record minimum and much of the ice is thin first year ice.
Greenland is seeing large numbers of sea level glaciers calving off icebergs, mainly from the west coast. This is happening more and more since the sea level ice shelves that surrounded much of Greenland melted away, just like the ice shelves around Antarctica are doing.
What got me to post this article here was something I read this morning:
Quote:A vast glacier-fed river which flowed from Canada's Yukon territory across Alaska to drain into the Bering Sea has disappeared in just four days, in what scientists believe is the first observed case of "river piracy".
High average temperatures in the first three months of 2016 [WINTER months!] caused a dramatic spike in the amount of meltwater flowing from the Kaskawulsh glacier, carving a deep canyon in the ice and redirecting the flow toward the Alsek River in the south, rather than the north-flowing Slims River.
That changed the Slims River from a three-metre-deep, raging torrent to a place where "massive afternoon dust storms occurred almost daily", according to a scientific paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-18/canadian-river-vanishes-in-geological-inst...No, we are nowhere near an Ice Age
but have to take seriously that AGW is starting to seriously change the world. It is clear CO2 is the culprit and we need to start reducing CO2 emissions. Meanwhile we need to adapt to and mitigate AGW.
Greenland ice sheet is melting, raising sea levels. At present Antarctica is reducing that sea level rise by gaining mass but it is doing so less and less and in under 30 yearsin the lifetime of many herewill add to sealevel rise by adding its meltwater to that of Greenland. How far above sea level do you or your kids live?
The present shambles are acting to increase AGW, that Adani mine for example. Will give the country very little economic benefit but will see more CO2 emitted by burning that coal. The shambles have buggered up the renewable energy sector so no major reduction in emissions from there. Extensive land clearance also increases emissions.
Time for some real action by the shambles!