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The Dreaded Rainforest Shift

Robert Hunziker — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:48:58 +0000

Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.

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Siberia’s Hot Streak

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:01:40 +0000

Global warming in Siberia is on a hot streak! It was +6°C last year. In like manner, if the entire planet hit +6°C above pre-industrial, it would be lights out, life snuffed out, sayonara.

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Direct Air Capture and Big Oil

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 22:38:17 +0000

There’s something cagey going on with the world’s biggest corporations, over-weighted by oil producers, now feigning green.

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Approaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 23:38:08 +0000

A recent UN Assessment, as of February 26th 2021, regarding progress or lack thereof by the 195 nations to the Paris 2015 climate agreement is starting to look like a big bust.

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A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic

Robert Hunziker — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:50:00 +0000

A notable satellite-telephonic call to colleagues in late October from Swedish scientist Örjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University briefly described a haunting discovery: “This East Siberian slope methane hydrate system has been perturbed and the process will be ongoing.”

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Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing

Robert Hunziker — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 08:57:08 +0000

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially!

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Boundless Dying Trees

Robert Hunziker — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:29:37 +0000

Global warming is ravaging forests throughout the world.

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The Climate Inertia Bugaboo

Robert Hunziker — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:51:28 +0000

A new study reveals details about climate change inertia, a sobering study that speaks to the absolute necessity of herculean efforts to stop emissions, full stop, now, not tomorrow

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Climate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming

Paris Williams — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:56:36 +0000

The climate community and the general public are in for some “incredibly alarming” worst-case scenarios as modelling for the United Nations’ next major climate risk assessment takes shape.

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The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early

Robert Hunziker — Tue, 12 May 2020 22:26:15 +0000

The human body has limits. If “temperature plus humidity” is high enough, even a healthy person seated in the shade with plentiful water to drink will suffer severely or likely die. It’s the Wet-Bulb Temperature (TW) effect.

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Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher

Paris Williams — Sun, 10 May 2020 19:55:29 +0000

New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned this development, which is not yet incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement out of reach.

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The IPCC’s Worst Case Scenario

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:38:30 +0000

A recent landmark study of massive ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland fulfills the “worst case” prognosis, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s a nightmare come true, as the impact of global warming on the planet’s most significant/biggest masses of ice multiplied six-fold in only 30 years. It wasn’t supposed to happen so unexpectedly, so suddenly.

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