Corbett Kroehler - Global Warming

Maldives on Collision Course with Permanent Evacuation, Cabinet Holds Meeting Underwater

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0600

This time last year, I told you about the looming crisis of permanent evacuation confronting the island nation of the Maldives. I referred to plans by the national government to evacuate all inhabitants permanently because of rising waters spawned by global warming.

Since then, despite political change and renewed commitments to turn the tide on carbon emissions, so to speak, the situation has worsened. Clearly and much to the chagrin of the government of the Maldives, the urgency of the situation is not resonating with policymakers. So, last month, President Nasheed and his cabinet held an underwater meeting.

The purpose of the submerged gathering is obvious: unless real progress is made against global warming, the only way future cabinet meetings in the Maldives will be possible will be underwater.

This is no joke, my friend!

The entire chain of atolls is at risk but Hathifushi island is particularly vulnerable. I don’t know what other details we can provide to skeptics of global warming to make them believe but anyone who cares about humanity must start to care and take definitive action!

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jpg credit: Maldives government

Extreme Ice Survey Stuns Global Warming Skeptics with Time-Lapse Photography of Glacial Loss

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0600

The old axiom that seeing is believing is seldom more true than with respect to global warming. Recently, a friend of mine, who is plugged in to the cloak and dagger battle which is the battle against fossil fuel companies who seek to destroy climate reform, described the move toward renewal energy as a fight to the death. He was right on.

Disinformation and feel good propaganda are two key tools used by advocates of the status quo and they use them to great effect. Fortunately, there are advocates of reform who know how to wield the truth with equal skill. Noted photographer James Balog and his crack scheme at Extreme Ice Survey have come through with a multimedia presentation which rivals An Inconvenient Truth in its resonance.

The visuals are simply amazing and, most importantly, undeniable. My position on the results of the Extreme Ice Survey is that everyone needs to watch the chilling images of glacial loss, no pun intended.

I exhort you to do so immediately at

EtremeIceSurvey.org

Then, check out Mr. Balog’s presentation at TED 2009 in Oxford:

http://tinyurl.com/n9fhat

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photos courtesy of Extreme Ice Survey

Walrus under Consideration for Placement on Endangered Species List due to Global Warming

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0600

When most of us ponder the devastation to wildlife from global warming and polar ice cap melting, the polar bear comes to mind right away. That’s understandable because the polar bear is such an iconic species. Moreover, there’s no doubt that polar bears are threatened because it is a commonly known fact that the planet is losing billions of acres of permanent ice pack every year.

However, the impacts from habitat loss to species in the Arctic threaten many species and the walrus is running a close second to the polar bear. You see, whereas polar bears travel in small family groups, walruses gather in large numbers. So, when their habitat melts, they literally pile on one another in a very primitive manner. So, as the loss of habitat worsens, smaller, younger walruses which can’t evade larger animals vying for their space can quite literally be crushed.

According to the National Wildlife Federation, the situation is so dire that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the walrus to the Endangered Species List due to habitat loss from global warming. How horrible!

Now, as the October 24 Day of Climate Action marks the final countdown to COP15 in Copenhagen in December, it is vital that we spread the word as far and wide as we can. Global warming truly is a global threat and unless we take definitive, immediate action, we will lose more and more species, including the unlikely victim of polar ice cap melting, the walrus.

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Peter Garrett, Australia's Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Contributes to Global Warming Fight with Remake of Hit Song

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0600

I admit it. I’m on a roll! I repeat the message of cultural change as a key tool in the fight against global warming and new tools appear. This latest one from TimeForClimateJustice.org has a personal back story.

When I attended the third International Solar Cities Congress in Australia last year, Peter Garrett, noted rock star and environmentalist, recently had ascended to Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts in the national government down under. Mr. Garrett’s rise to this important position coincided nicely with the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by the government under their new Prime Minister, Michael Rudd. So, when Peter Garrett came to Adelaide to address the Solar Cities Congress, the occasion was doubly joyous.

Mr. Garrett spoke just as effectively as I knew that he would, laying out the cause of renewable energy and the fight against global warming with aplomb. However, given that I live 10,000 miles from Adelaide, I left the conference fearing that his mighty words would have little effect in my corner of the world. As of October 1, 2009, other words of his are taking mighty effect.

I almost never write about music here on my blog because it seldom interconnects with my work against global warming. That’s a shame because I love music. Indeed, one of my favorite bands as a teenager was Midnight Oil from Australia. Who is the lead singer and driving force of Midnight Oil? The Honorable Peter Garrett!

Well, in anticipation of the climate negotiations slated to take place in Copenhagen this December, which we all hope will yield the successor to the Kyoto Protocol, Midnight Oil has enabled Duran Duran and many artists of note to remake their smash hit song, Beds Are Burning.

As a general rule, I dislike remakes because they seldom match the genius of the original performance. I gladly make an exception for the new Dry River Bed version of Beds Are Burning because it is fabulous. Better still, this updated version of a wonderful song is part of a larger cultural push to make people realize that global warming already is taking effect, changing lives and the climate as a whole in a great many places, including a suffocating drought in Australia. The name of the associated campaign is Time For Climate Justice.

I exhort you to visit the campaign website, watch the video for this fabulous remake, download it to your computer or MP3 player and spread the word. I was impressed by what I saw on TimeForClimateJustice.org and am very confident that you will, too. That address again is

TimeForClimateJustice.org

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2009 Green Car of the Year Award Recipient Exemplifies Importance of Clean Diesel Technology

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0600

In my last thread, when I heralded the arrival of the film FUEL, I mentioned the important role of biofuels as a key interim technology. Automobiles must be consumers of biofuels in order to fight global warming on our path to the eventual adoption of hydrogen as the only automotive fuel. BioDiesel is a vital type of biofuel.

When people contemplate burning BioDiesel in their car rather than gasoline, a common question is whether special engine modifications are necessary. In modern cars, the answer is no. In fact, BioDiesel has been such a success, as exemplified by the 2009 Green Car of the Year, the Volkwagen Jetta, that some racing teams use it.

As author of this blog, I have told you about high fuel efficiency available in European models of cars sold in North America today. I also told you about the VW Forest in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. I mention both not as an endorsement of a particular company or product but of good corporate stewardship.

With its 2009 Jetta TDI, Volkswagen has done it again, receiving the 2009 Green Car of the Year Award from Green Car Journal and Drivers’ Choice Best of the Year from MotorWeek. Those plaudits have as much to do with the high fuel efficiency and low emissions of the model as they do with how well the car drives.

That is my point here. One day, all of us will use hydrogen for our exclusive automotive fuel. Until then, though, models such as the 2009 Jetta TDI can help us embrace BioDiesel and fuel efficiency happily. If you are in the market for a new car, I recommend that you consider this course. Thousands of magazine readers in North America have heard a similar endorsement from publications they trust.

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Award-Winning Film FUEL Unofficial Sequel to An Inconvenient Truth

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0600

I emphasize the importance of cultural change in the fight against global warming so much that I sometimes worry about repetition. I was greatly relieved, then, to learn of the award-winning film FUEL which calls itself the unofficial sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. Welcome to the party, my friends!

FUEL tells the important story of what bio fuels can do for the United States and the world. However, the main thrust of the story is less about science and more about cultural change. The film features movie stars. It features musicians. It features innovators in renewable energy. What emerges in the end is the ideal bookend to An Inconvenient Truth, which gives everyone an answer to the question, “OK, so what should we do next?”

Since I have dedicated a great deal of space here on my blog to bio fuels over the years, the context of the commendable film FUEL is an excellent opportunity to clarify a few points and apply them to challenges which the alternative fuels industry faces.

First, there is the question of the wisdom of embracing bio fuels. Simply put, hydrogen should be our ultimate goal. However, bio fuels can play a crucial role as an interim solution between petroleum fuels and hydrogen. Then, there is the question of the source material for bio fuels. As I see it, biodiesel which is derived from used kitchen waste, or other such sources which would find their way into a nation’s waste stream, are ideal because a crucial form of recycling is included in their production.

Third, then, is the question of growing crops specifically to make fuel. This idea has great potential but must be embraced with great caution. We must not allow fuel agriculture to skew retail prices of foodstuffs or overtax the natural systems which play a vital role in the production of food crops. For this reason, I am very enthusiastic about jatropha.

Jatropha is among a small list of plants which are ideal for growing bio fuels for the reason you will read in my blog post on the subject. However, jatropha doesn’t grow everywhere so how do we take the bio fuels industry truly global? Algae may pose the solution.

I’ve had the privilege of seeing many presentations from various innovators in the renewable fuels industry. They have much to offer, including the capability of producing bio fuel from algae on every continent, 12 months out of the year. This fact is part of the reason that the creators of the film FUEL are so enthusiastic. I share their buzz and encourage you to visit the project website to learn more. The URL is

TheFuelFilm.com

While you are there, be sure to read up on The Algaeus, the first car ever to be driven from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast burning only bio fuel.

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October 24 Day of Climate Action Gains Momentum and Broad Support

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0600

The second half of calendar year 2009 has been an historic one. It began with the announcement by the Obama administration that the White House intends to earn LEED certification. This is an effort which demands a group effort rivaled only by the significance of its ultimate success.

Measured per capita, the United States consumes more energy than any other nation. Just like the Statue of Liberty, the White House is an American icon. Reducing the energy consumption of such an icon will say as much about our country as dozens of commendable but under-the-radar efficiency projects combined!

Shortly after the Obama administration announced its wonderful initiative to earn LEED Certification, the scientific community reported that 2009 will be the third-hottest Arctic summer on record, exceeded only by 2008 and 2007.

So, the news is very, very good and, by contrast, very, very bad.

What should we do? Well, the answer has not changed. Everyone needs to go carbon-neutral immediately. Our ultimate goal, however, must be for the world to set a hard ceiling on the total atmospheric content of carbon at 350 parts per million. We are at about 400 today.

Ideally, we should set an absolute limit at 300 but a ceiling of 350 will stave off the worst effects, passing the tipping point, which will yield hundreds of millions of environmental refugees and a rate of extinction of flora and fauna which far outstrips the awful pace which we have today. Moreover, achieving global consensus on 350 is far, far easier than 300.

Either way, 350.org is holding a global event for global warming on October 24 and everyone should participate. I provided background details and the relevant hyperlink back in July.

We are mere weeks from October 24 and there are events taking place all over the world. It is likely that there is an event near you and you should go or, better yet, volunteer.

350 is the right number and October 24 is the day to begin to make it happen.

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Temperature Rise in Arctic Region Now Confirmed Greatest in Two Millennia

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0600

In early September, the scientific community reported two seemingly contradictory facts. Since both of them provide additional corroboration of the existence and acceleration of global warming, I’d like to take a moment to explain their relationship.

First, Farmer’s Almanac predicted an exceptionally cold winter in North America. If the globe truly is warming, how can winters be cooling? In the interest of not repeating myself, I refer you to the explanation I gave back in March.

Simply put, the emphasis must fall on the word global in global warming.

The second scientific fact was the result of extensive research on the history of the Arctic region. It is the warmest it has been in two millennia, including the great cooling of the Middle Ages. For some time, skeptics of global warming have pointed to the great cooling of the Middle Ages as proof that global warming is a hoax. Thanks to this new research on the Arctic region, we know that the two patterns can follow their own trend line and one does not contradict the other.

For proof, I commend to your attention the graphic below. As of September, 2009, no credible skeptic of global warming has any scientific support.

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Sustainable Cities Vital Component in Fight Against Climate Change

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0600

I love city life. Despite the automobile traffic and pollution, metropolitan areas have much to offer. They are cultural hubs. They are transportation hubs. They are economic engines for entire regions.

However, cities also are great sources of greenhouse gas emissions which exacerbate climate change. Sadly, the formula for calculating just how much damage the average city does to the environment lies in a simple formula.

In agrarian economies, the average citizen produces 3 units of energy for every 1 unit consumed. In cities, the proportion is reversed. In other words, the average denizen of a metropolitan area produces 1 unit of energy for every 3 units consumed. In the United States, the proportion is even worse, 5 units of energy for every 1 unit produced.

The good news is that city dwellers are the best equipped to spark cultural and social changes. Using the United States as an example once again, many trends which Yankees follow begin in New York and Los Angeles, two of our megacities (having at least 10 million residents during all 12 months of the year).

It is for this reason that I am delighted to tell you about a new website which plows a new path for the United States and the rest of the industrialized world toward sustainable cities.

Meet ChayahCity.org

The first two letters of the name form a hard k sound. The founders of ChayahCity.org know a great deal about sustainable living and seek to build a list of followers who are excited about the idea. The goal of the website is to instruct its supporters in forming an exemplar city, a shining emerald city where sustainable practice are embraced at every level of society.

ChayahCity.org launched just a few days ago and I exhort you to visit the website to learn more. Enter your name and email address to receive details. Through regular updates, you will learn about the origins of sustainable cities as a concept (they go back many decades) and just how easy it will be for all of us to follow the lead set by ChayahCity.org

The idealism of a perfectly sustainable city where harmony thrives is alive and kicking at ChayahCity.org

photo credit: eyewoo.com

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50-Year Glacial Measurements Foretell Doom of Polar Ice Cap

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0600

Since 1959, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has tracked the health of South Cascade glacier in Washington and the Wolverine and Gulcana glaciers in Alaska. The American land mass covers a wide variety of climatic zones and the three aforementioned glaciers contain important information because they themselves are found in different climatic zones and at varying elevations.

The 50-year update to the USGS report on the glacier was released a few weeks ago. It told a very grim tale. Glaciers not only are melting fast but far faster than even the worst case scenario which many climatologists predicted just a few years ago. For example, during the 50-year period, the South Cascade glacier in Washington States has lost half its volume, half!

Since glaciers are so vast and change so slowly, it’s easy for skeptics to dismiss statistics such as those just published by the USGS but our posture needs to be the exact opposite. Glaciers play a vital role in providing fresh water to literally hundreds of millions of people and endangered species the world over. In fact, they act as giant, above-ground aquifers. Once they’re gone, people and species which rely on them for water will have no suitable replacement and will be forced to relocate or perish.

The experts at the USGS have attested that global warming is to blame for this horrific loss. However, you don’t have to take my word for it. You can read the entire report online for free. The URL is

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3046

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photos courtesy of: United States Geological Survey

FedEx Expands Its Fleet of Diesel-Electric Hybrid Vehicles by Commendable 50 Percent

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0600

Most of the world’s major courier and delivery services have taken broad strides in recent years to reduce their carbon footprint. Because saving fuel also saves money, everyone wins from these efforts. However, FedEx arguably has traveled the greatest distance down the path of innovation with its pilot fleet of hybrid diesel-electric delivery vans.

FedEx began the process by commissioning a special design, an entirely new type of delivery van which reduced emissions and fuel consumption while saving the company significant amounts of money over the long term. It succeeded with a configuration which improves fuel economy by 44 percent, decreases particulate matter by 96 percent and reduces smog-causing (NOx) emissions by 75 percent.

Not to be outdone, however, when the success of the first fleet of vehicles was indisputable, FedEx management decided to take innovation to a new level in announcing the expansion of its diesel-electric fleet by 50 percent. Hence, on July 21, 2009, FedEx introduced recycled hybrid delivery vans to those in operation in California.

The first fleet of vans has logged over 1,000,000 miles of revenue service but those vans will be joined by 92 standard FedEx delivery trucks converted to hybrid-electric systems. Each retrofitted van already has traveled at least 300,000 miles and now will demonstrate an impressive lifespan by working just as hard with the hybrid power plant and custom drive train.

I commend FedEx for its continued investment in and dedication to the important work of reducing tailpipe emissions and fuel consumption surrounding its work of moving millions of envelopes, parcels and other items around the world every day. With the participation of such global leaders, skeptics of the practicality of fighting climate change while continuing the live our lives are running out of arguments.

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Climate Counts Company Scorecard Assists in Choosing Green Products and Services with your Mobile Phone

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0600

In my previous post, I told you about the fabulous impact on cultural awareness surrounding the carbon count of our atmosphere spawned by the Deutsche Bank Carbon Counter. However, once you have viewed the counter and/or downloaded the widget for your computer’s desktop, how do you take definitive action to reduce your carbon footprint? One of the easiest ways is to green your selection of vendors when purchasing products and services.

Most of us have a choice of at least two vendors when purchasing a product or service. How do we include the company’s environmental sensitivity when choosing between the two? The Climate Counts Company Scorecard makes it easy.

While some vendors are ethical and entirely accurate in reporting their corporate responsibility to environmental issues such as global warming, others employ green washing and other deceptive tactics in order to convince you to choose in their favor. The best way to make an informed decision is to rely on a disinterested party to provide you with all of the facts.

Now, thanks to its handy Company Scorecard, Climate Counts provides you with the information at no charge but with the convenience of your mobile phone. That’s right! All you do is send a text message with the company name preceded by the word green and you will receive the company scorecard by rapid reply. How could the process be any easier?

You’ll find all of the necessary steps (plus a link to Mozes, the initiative partner) on a special page of the Climate Counts website

climatecounts.org/mobile

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Giant Carbon Counter from Deutsche Bank Reminds Everyone of Important Statistics

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0600

On June 18, 2009, Deutsche Bank launched a most laudable addition to the skyline of Manhattan, its giant carbon counter. Located in the heart of New York City at the corner of 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, the giant carbon counter operates 24 hours a day, every day to remind us of just how unspeakably large the quantities of carbon which humanity spews into the atmosphere truly are.

Deutsche Bank’s Climate Change Advisors worked with a team of scientists at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change led by Ronald G. Prinn, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT, to develop the algorithm that drives the carbon counter. What’s more, all major greenhouse gases are counted in the calculation and the algorithm which runs the counter is updated on a monthly basis to assure accuracy.

Two recurring themes which I utilize here on Keyboard Culture are the need to reduce carbon emissions and the urgency of effecting cultural change if we truly hope to combat global warming in time to save millions of lives and countless endangered species from extinction. Deutsche Bank’s fabulous carbon counter achieves both in a single, glorious project.

It is true that energy is spent in order to transmit the vital message of the carbon counter but the news is carbon-neutral through the use of carbon offsets. Moreover, Deutsche Bank as an institution works hard every day to assist its clients in investing billions of dollars of capital in low-carbon alternatives. You can learn much more about the fine work of Deutsche Bank in sharing its urgent message on the project website. There you also can download the desktop widget which allows you to track the huge number displayed on the counter without being present in New York City. The URL is

know-the-number.com

With more projects like the carbon counter from Deutsche Bank, humanity is chipping away at our vast indifference toward pollution and climate change!

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International Day of Climate Action from 350.org Sets Important Milestone

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0600

Just like with other successful movements of social change over the centuries, in the battle against global warming solidarity is key. It is for this reason that I support the fine work of multiple environmental organizations with my time and money. Specifically on the subject of global warming, cultural change and the urgent move toward a low-carbon economy, few organizations have a more targeted message than 350.org

It was the good folks at 350.org who inspired the TckTckTck campaign designed to encourage politicians and climate negotiators to attend to their duties with the urgency which global warming deserves. With the capable assistance of Young Friends of the Earth Europe, the world’s largest human exclamation point was formed in Bonn, Germany on June 6 to help drive home the point that no global warming treaty which commits humanity to an atmospheric carbon count of greater than 350 parts per million is acceptable.

The subtitle of the photograph?

Survival Is Not Negotiable!

Now, 350.org and their allies have embarked on a new mission. You see, the Kyoto Protocol, to which the government of the United States committed itself but then never ratified, is up for renegotiation. The earlier version was helpful but the largest polluters barely have begun to address their pollution levels with any meaningful effect. So, the job of convincing all of the negotiators that we need a treaty which brings us to 350 parts per million falls to the people.

Hence, I am pleased to share with you the International Day of Climate Action from 350.org. Scheduled for October 24, 2009, this watershed moment constitutes a genuine opportunity for environmentalists and concerned citizens everywhere to add their voice to the choir of people demanding real reform of greenhouse gas emissions.

Unlike Earth Day and similar events, which all are important but can lack a call to action, the International Day of Climate Action has been announced with significant tools to find action events near where you live or recruit others to assist you with an action which you yourself have decided to sponsor.

I am very proud to share this information with you and encourage you to watch the kickoff video from 350.org because it makes the case very well for genuine, immediate and global action. The URL is

350.org/video

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jpg source actnow09.eu

Revolutionary ASTER Imaging from NASA Shows Unstable Variability of Glacial Movement

Keyboard Culture Global Warming Expert Corbett Kroehler — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0600

Back in May, I told you about the horrifying loss of multiyear ice in the Arctic and how this adds a great deal of new evidence as to not only the factual basis of global warming but its accelerating rate.

While I found the scientific methodology and resulting maps to be quite compelling, I would understand if inexperienced readers might be somewhat skeptical of what it all means. Enter ASTER Imaging from NASA. ASTER stands for Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer. As it regards global warming, ASTER was used in a collaboration between NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to create the world’s largest 3D map.

Covering the surface of our planet between 83 degrees North and 83 degrees South latitudes, the ASTER map features intriguing discoveries, including with regard to glaciers in the Bhutan Himalayas, giant sources of potable water for roughly a billion people. Simply put, the glaciers are not melting at a uniform pace yet they should be. Global warming is a logical choice when attempting to pinpoint the blame.

Why?

Well, as I often repeat here on Keyboard Culture, our planet’s atmosphere is in a constant state of compensation, attempting to fix through temperature regulation and storm systems the damage which we have inflicted and continue to inflict.

What is to be done? Well, the answer to that question has not changed. We need to stop burning fossil fuels and deforesting the planet!

If you are interested in more specifics, examine the image at the end of this post. Here is NASA’s description of what it means...

“(ASTER) data have revealed significant spatial variability in glacier flow, such that the glacier velocities in the end zones on the south side exhibit significantly lower velocities (9 to 18 meters, or 30 to 60 feet per year), versus much higher flow velocities on the north side (18 to 183 meters, or 60 to 600 feet per year). The higher velocity for the northern glaciers suggests that the southern glaciers have substantially stagnated ice.”

source: NASA

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