Scientists read 115 years of Greenland’s meltwater history in Arctic seaweed. The ice sheet crossed a threshold in 2007. Temperature records haven’t caught up yet.
This is so significant. I find the use of the coralline alga really fascinating. In reading through this article, I am struck that this needs to be told as a simpler story to catch people's attention. Writers and storytellers that are very good at condensing information are so critical right now to raising public awareness. I wonder if Catherine Heyhoe has written about this. I will have to have a look. Thanks for this important insight!
I talk as a non-scientific person who had been a member of community sustainability group from some 7 years taking action to address climate/Landscape damage in rural and urban areas. There are plenty of fellow community members agitating about installing renewable energy, but far fewer who display and concern about significant loss of carbon from the soil and the loss of forests et al.
All reliable objective evidence points to the fact that ‘climate change/global warming/ whatever’ is not a man made phenomenon, but relates to solar, earth orbit, geological phenomena. Tipping point/ shipping point, nothing that man is going to do will change it, and a warmer planet is good for us all: plants (upon which we all depend ultimately), animals and humans.
That inconvenient truth doesn’t help get government grants, but, too bad.
This is so significant. I find the use of the coralline alga really fascinating. In reading through this article, I am struck that this needs to be told as a simpler story to catch people's attention. Writers and storytellers that are very good at condensing information are so critical right now to raising public awareness. I wonder if Catherine Heyhoe has written about this. I will have to have a look. Thanks for this important insight!
Thank you for breaking down the science and weaving together biology, chemistry, and climate science so thoughtfully.
You’re very welcome!
I talk as a non-scientific person who had been a member of community sustainability group from some 7 years taking action to address climate/Landscape damage in rural and urban areas. There are plenty of fellow community members agitating about installing renewable energy, but far fewer who display and concern about significant loss of carbon from the soil and the loss of forests et al.
All reliable objective evidence points to the fact that ‘climate change/global warming/ whatever’ is not a man made phenomenon, but relates to solar, earth orbit, geological phenomena. Tipping point/ shipping point, nothing that man is going to do will change it, and a warmer planet is good for us all: plants (upon which we all depend ultimately), animals and humans.
That inconvenient truth doesn’t help get government grants, but, too bad.