Climate Letter #1199

A surprising discovery should slow the loss of West Antarctica’s ice sheet.  Land beneath the coast is uplifting at an unexpectedly rapid rate, thereby reducing the rate of melting from ice shelf surfaces below sea level and pinning the forward motion of several glaciers.  That’s good news for sea level rise and coastal cities in the short term but not a reason for relaxing defensive programs that are already very late.  The geological reasons for the rapid uplift may be unique to this one region.

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Significant new information about the contours of movement in Greenland’s ice sheet.  Only a small portion actually slides over bedrock at the bottom, which is contrary to previous assumptions, while top surfaces over wide areas keep drifting toward the coastal edges.  This is attributed to the ice being soft and deformable in the middle depths.  What this means for future destabilization is not yet clear.
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A new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification has been published.  This very comprehensive work “provides examples of how human activity drives species to extinction, threatens food security, intensifies climate change and leads to people being displaced from their homes.”  The post highlights seven key findings, which illuminate the immediacy and monumental scale of the problem.
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-world-atlas-desertification-unprecedented-pressure.html
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From NPR, an overview of the specific problem of climate refugees.  It seems that hardly anyone is anxious to give it serious attention.  “The situation and scope of this problem is entirely new, and of biblical proportions.”
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A description of short-lived greenhouse gases and other pollutants involved in climate change.  This article from Inside Climate News stresses the way they all converge to give a boost to the trend of extraordinary warming now wreaking havoc in the Arctic.  The warming would be even greater without the cooling effect of the remaining sulfate emissions, which ironically are the only kind on this list that we have succeeded in reducing.
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People who want to save the environment are historically not good voters.  There is a movement going on that seeks to bring more of them to the polls in 2018 and beyond.  The numbers are big enough to make a real difference.
Carl

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