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JETSTREAM ACTIVITY [IS] NOW FOCUSSING...

   on THE LAND as well as THE SEA to dump the excess

  water which has resulted  as a consequence of the on

  land glacier ice melting from Greenland to Antarctica,

  as a direct result of our Lords & Masters  inaction to

  implement that which has been so urgently required

  following Severn Suzuki's 1992 UN's Earth Summit

  address in Rio de Janeiro, which was conceived

  following international discussion of scientific

  discoveries in the 1970s and 1980s highlighting the

  adverse effect of human activity on ozone levels in the

  stratosphere and the discovery of the ‘ozone hole’.

... and Severn Suzuki had to address ALL THESE MEN • having proposed
a so called 
new blueprint for international action on the environment


The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the 'Earth Summit', was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3-14 June 1992. This global conference, held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the first Human Environment Conference  in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, brought together political leaders, diplomats, scientists, representatives of the media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 179 countries for a massive effort to focus on the impact of human socio-economic activities on the environment. A 'Global Forum' of NGOs was also held in Rio de Janeiro at the same time, bringing together an unprecedented number of NGO representatives, who presented their own vision of the world's future in relation to the environment and socio-economic development.



  Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point,

   says study. Scientists say ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise

   [IS] very probably already doomed to melt

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Comment by Michael Grove on August 7, 2021 at 11:49

Rising temperatures caused by the climate crisis have already seen trillions of tonnes of Greenland’s ice pour into the ocean. Melting its ice sheet completely would eventually raise global sea level by 7 metres.

The new analysis detected the warning signals of a tipping point in a 140-year record of ice-sheet height and melting rates in the Jakobshavn basin, one of the five biggest basins in Greenland and the fastest-melting. The prime suspect for a surge in melting is a vicious circle in which melting reduces the height of the ice sheet, exposing it to the warmer air found at lower altitudes, which causes further melting.

Comment by Michael Grove on February 26, 2022 at 16:27

A new report published earlier this month by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says sea levels will rise 10 to 12 inches in the contiguous U.S. by 2050 — with regional variations — which scientists say would trigger a “profound increase” in coastal flooding.

The Washington coast could see as much sea level rise as 4 to 6 inches — in the next three decades as it did in the previous century. By the end of the century, the state could see nearly 3 feet in average sea level rise, according to the new projections, a jump from 2 feet in past studies.

Comment by Michael Grove on April 1, 2023 at 10:24

New Zealand’s glaciers are becoming “smaller and more skeletal due to the effects of climate change and scientists predict many could disappear within a decade. An annual end-of-summer survey that records the snowline of more than 50 South Island glaciers has revealed continued loss of snow and ice.

Every year, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa), the Victoria University of Wellington and the conservation department gather thousands of aerial photographs of the glaciers to measure the altitude of the snowline and see how much of the previous winter’s snow has remained covering each glacier. That snowline, also known as the equilibrium line altitude (ELA), allows scientists to evaluate the glacier’s health. If the glacier size has decreased, then the line will be higher, because less winter snow remains.


“We were expecting the snowlines to be high because of the warm weather we’ve had and sadly, our instincts were confirmed,” said Dr Andrew Lorrey, a principal scientist at Niwa.

New Zealand’s glaciers had lost mass most years over the past decade, said Dr Lauren Vargo from Victoria University.“But what was more striking to me is how much smaller and more skeletal so many of the glaciers are becoming.”




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