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I invited you to watch a small movie or documentary named CHASING TIME ( the link is below) and you will be left wondering just what it is that we cannot appreciate about how fast we are heading for a climate disaster.
There is no denying the evidence that this documentary presents, that the world’s ice is disappearing and sea level are rising.
The rate of melting is directly proportional to how quickly we are going to witness coastal erosion.
According to data from NASA and the Copernicus Climate Change Service, global sea levels are currently rising at an accelerated rate of roughly 3.6 to 3.8 mm per year.
Greenland is losing an average of roughly 242 billion tonnes (Gt) of ice per year.
If the entire Greenland ice sheet were to melt completely, it holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.4 meters (24 feet).
Antarctica is losing roughly 201 billion tonnes (Gt) of ice per year.
If it completely melted, global sea levels would spike by an catastrophic 58 meters (190 feet).
Sea level rise doesn’t happen uniformly.
So it stands to reason that some cities are facing a much faster threat than others.
Dhaka, Bangladesh & Kolkata, Mumbai, India:
Bangkok, Thailand.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Miami. New York, USA.
Shanghai & Guangzhou, China.
Rotterdam & Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dublin. Ireland.
London. England.
If you’re a believer in what the vast majority of the world’s scientists say,the ocean is warming.
If you’re a believer of a small but loud minority made up of YouTubers and snake-oil salesmen then ocean warming is fake news.
The issuy, though, is that reality doesn’t care about how loudly, those YouTubers might scream the science is there and it’s proof enough.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is huge and incredibly important to how the world’s climate — and in the shorter term, weather — behaves.
AMOC plays a key role in shaping Earth’s climate by moving heat, freshwater, and nutrients around the Atlantic Ocean,” explained the Gulf of Maine Research institute
“One of its most visible effects is on regional temperature: by transporting warm water northward, the AMOC helps keep parts of Europe and the North Atlantic milder than they would otherwise be.
Now, the science world has known for quite some time that the AMOC appeared to be slowing down, but they didn’t know exactly why. They thought, perhaps, that there was simply less warm water moving through the AMOC, which would’ve explained the cold blob.
They also thought that maybe that particular area was losing heat into the atmosphere, but they wanted to pin it down for certain.
Temperature records go as far back as 1870, with satellite records kicking in around 1993.
If the AMOC was holding steady, and the surface was the source of the heat loss, the data should show an uptick in heat flux to the atmosphere over time.”
When they pored over the immense amount of data, however, that’s not what they found.
When diving deeper, they found that in the last 50 years alone — especially from 1993 onward — the largest drop in heat was from the top 3,000-or-so feet of the North Atlantic Ocean, which (not coincidentally) is where the AMOC runs.
That means, at least to the researchers’ eyes, that “the AMOC ‘s heat supply to this region had been declining over the last few decades.
If the AMOC simply collapses, which isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility, we could expect some seriously disastrous weather patterns.
“Such a collapse would be what scientists call a ‘climate tipping point’ —an event that would lead to sudden, wide-reaching impacts that are difficult if not impossible to reverse,” wrote the MIT climate Portal team.
“Changing currents would cause sea levels to rise swiftly in areas like the U.S. East Coast, storms would grow more severe, the rainy and dry seasons in the Amazon may flip, and the ice age pattern of a cooling north and warming south would play out once again.”
But belief and proof are two very different things.
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AND THAT IS JUST CLIMATE CHANGES.
WHEN IT COMES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
We have little concept of how it is already changing the world never mind the changes in our lifetimes, never mind in ten never mind in twenty years from now.
However like climate change we (that is our society) had better start preparing for massive changes otherwise there is going to be massive unrest and catastrophic consequences.
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