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Law of the Sea, the Abysmal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence
REE’s — Rare Earth Elements. We’re all connected to the deep sea. There is no line in the ocean that says to us, ‘below this, nothing matters.’ The ocean is all connected. It’s the largest livable habitat on the planet. — Astrid Leitner, Oregon State U assistant professor. The interview HERE, to be aired, in […]
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On This Post-Election Shore, 2024
Today, election results run, a river of grief for another river that never became a wave. Tomorrow, perhaps a collapse we never imagined: a bridge, a body, a body politic, the world. Still, the tide comes & goes. As I stand in the sand, the under- tow pulls my heels, dragging me insistently deeper. These […]
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Doubling Down on “Too Much Heat”
A recent Arctic News headline on October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss of sea ice: “Double Blue Ocean Event, 2025”? It demands attention. A casual reading of climate change literature reveals several mentions of ecosystem impairment or […]
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Antarctic Ice Melt: New Sobering Studies
It was only two years ago that studies of the infamous Thwaites Glacier, aka: the Doomsday Glacier located in West Antarctica, found rapid melting. At the time, scientists said it was “hanging on by its fingernails.” (Source: “Doomsday Glacier”, Which Could Raise Sea Level by Several Feet, is “Hanging by its Fingernails”, Scientists Say”, CNN, […]
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Greenland Cascading 30 Million Tons Per Hour
Free-floating ice floats jammed into the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019 near Ilulissat, Greenland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Facing Future.tv recently conducted an interview about spooky new developments in Greenland. The ice sheet is cascading/gushing at unheard of rates never dreamed possible at this stage of global warming, or at any […]
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Coastal Cities at High Noon
Antarctica, the massive continent of ice, the size of the continental US and Mexico combined, is breaking apart more and more as a recent scientific expedition discovered unambiguous signals of considerably more danger than previously realized. “The changes to the sea-ice indicate that in the coming decades coastal cities will need to be reconfigured because […]
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Accelerating Ocean Heat Breaks All-Time Records
North Atlantic Ocean temperature is on a red-hot streak. New research finds ocean temperatures… “have now smashed previous heat records for at least seven years in a row.” (Lijing Cheng, et al, “New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023”, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, January 2024.) Certainly, it’s nothing to mess around with […]
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Arctic Sea Ice Loss: A World of Trouble
What if Arctic sea ice melts? All of it… during the summer! According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), over the past three decades the oldest, thickest ice (13-20 feet thick) has declined by a stunning 95 percent and 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now thin “seasonal ice” that quickly melts […]
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Global Warming Slices and Dices Greenland
Greenland’s ice sheet is under pressure from human-induced climate change. (Image credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images) Northern Greenland is under attack by global warming at the same time as delegates to COP28 heap praise on a purported landmark deal to transition out of fossil fuels but beware of the true meaning behind the language. Its disingenuousness […]
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