This CBS News video 'Experts warn abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences" shows this accelerating rate of melt in Antarctica is accelerating the rate of global warming: Transcript and an opinion piece by the blogger below:
TRANSCRIPT from YouTube AI:
Rapid changes in the 0:02 coldest place on Earth could have 0:04 dangerous consequences for years to come 0:06 and thousands of miles away. In a new 0:09 study, experts warn abrupt and 0:11 potentially irreversible environmental 0:13 shifts in Antarctica could dramatically 0:16 raise global ocean levels, resulting in 0:19 catastrophic uh conditions for future 0:22 generations. Climate change is driving 0:24 these changes in Antarctica, hurting its 0:27 ecosystems while accelerating the rate 0:29 of global warming. Narrowly Abram joins 0:32 us now. She is the chief scientist at 0:34 the Australian Antarctic Division. She's 0:36 also the lead author on this study. Um, 0:39 first and foremost, thanks for joining 0:41 us. Uh, what do these abrupt 0:43 environmental changes in that region 0:46 mean for us humans in the long term and 0:48 short term? 0:50 Yeah, it's it's really worrying what we 0:52 are seeing in Antarctica. And we can 0:54 often think that Antarctica is a long 0:57 way away, so it doesn't really affect 0:59 most of the planet, but that's um not 1:01 the case. Uh if we trigger these 1:04 potential for unstoppable uh loss of the 1:07 Antarctic ice sheet, uh that will affect 1:09 our coastlines right around the world 1:11 and the millions of people who live 1:13 there and the infrastructure. But 1:15 Antarctica also has a really important 1:16 role in regulating global climate and 1:19 the changes that we are seeing risk 1:21 amplifying human-caused climate change. 1:24 So to to know that that will have such 1:26 an impact and as we mentioned at the 1:28 very top thousands of miles away, 1:30 hundreds of thousands of miles away, 1:32 what actions can we take to prevent some 1:35 of the negative effects that we're 1:36 talking about? 1:39 the the number one action is to reduce 1:41 greenhouse gas emissions and limit 1:43 global warming within the targets that 1:44 are set out in the Paris agreement. The 1:47 the closer that we can stay to 1.5 1:50 degrees of warming, uh the less likely 1:52 we are to set off these unstoppable 1:54 changes. 1:55 All right, Narrowly Abram, thank you so 1:57 much for your time. 1:59 Thank you. (CBS NEWS)
BLOGGER RESPONSE:
Much of the moisture from this rapid ice melt is evaporating into the atmosphere, which is likely the cause of sudden rain outbursts that this Blog has documented in recent weeks.
Not all the water from the melting glaciers and polar ice caps is going directly into the ocean and raising sea levels. Much of it is evaporating into the atmosphere where it joins swirling masses of moisture that then just dump mounds of rain in unexpected unlikely places.
Several videos at City of Angels blog since I've been doing the Heating Planet project show people in these new. sudden unexpected floods saying, it came out of nowhere, we hardly ever have rain this time, all of a sudden this huge outburst.
No weather report predicted rain, let alone a flood in these cases.
I think the “sudden outburst out of nowhere” is one of the many unexpected results of global warming. I've been following this story since the seventies when it started, and they always said there will be unexpected results of global warming. I think these flash floods from cloudbursts when no weather report predicted them are one of those phenomena.
Also, when you think about it, the water level of the planet is going to go up everywhere, not just at the coastlines, as the ice melts. So what we are seeing in these sudden rain outbursts is the heating Earth causing the water level all over the planet to rise, not just at “sea level,” in my humble opinion.
-Kay Ebeling
The heating Planet Project continues at CofA Blog
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