One of the most worrisome predictions about climate change..

[aurora]

...might be coming true

www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/23/one-of-the-most-worrisome-predictions-about-climate-change-may-be-coming-true/

It's the salt/freshwater stratification and North Atlantic circulation scenario.

Two years ago, former NASA climate scientist James Hansen and a number of colleagues laid out a dire scenario in which gigantic pulses of fresh water from melting glaciers could upend the circulation of the oceans, leading to a world of fast-rising seas and even superstorms.

Hansen’s scenario was based on a computer simulation, not hard data from the real world, and met with skepticism from a number of other climate scientists. But now, a new oceanographic study appears to have confirmed one aspect of this picture — in its early stages, at least.

[aliciabella]

Apr 23, 2018 18:14:01 GMT -5 aurora said:

...might be coming true

www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/23/one-of-the-most-worrisome-predictions-about-climate-change-may-be-coming-true/

It's the salt/freshwater stratification and North Atlantic circulation scenario.

Two years ago, former NASA climate scientist James Hansen and a number of colleagues laid out a dire scenario in which gigantic pulses of fresh water from melting glaciers could upend the circulation of the oceans, leading to a world of fast-rising seas and even superstorms.

Hansen’s scenario was based on a computer simulation, not hard data from the real world, and met with skepticism from a number of other climate scientists. But now, a new oceanographic study appears to have confirmed one aspect of this picture — in its early stages, at least.

Sooo....we should have listened to Dennis Quid in The Day After Tomorrow. The Earth really will cleanse itself.

Fuck Man.

[curbsideprophet]

If only the current administration cared or believed in science.

[msmerymac]

Fuuuuuuuck

[cville]

I never have anything cogent to say to these stories. It's just one long primal scream in my head.

[aurora]

Apr 23, 2018 20:15:49 GMT -5 cville said:

I never have anything cogent to say to these stories. It's just one long primal scream in my head.

Yeah, I feel like it's time to go back to reading Salem's Lot to cheer myself up.