Human Activity Responsible for Arctic Melting...

Global Warming: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Sees Man's Fingerprints
All Over Arctic Melting...

In prior research I had undertaken for an environmental novel I was working on, I came across a report that had been issued by a top secret department connected to the presidency that advised the Executive that there was a very high probability that Europe would be destroyed in the build-up to the next Ice Age which might begin its ravages in as little as six months or in as long as twenty years; nevertheless, there was no doubt that it was coming!

The catastrophe would begin with flooding and climate changes which would lead to massive destruction and eventually conflict with everyone scrapping to survive in the lead up to veritable chaos. The probabilities, according to this report, were very high.

The report was given to the president with the suggestion that we inform England so that it might prepare to protect itself and its interests in Europe.
However, it is not clear that the government has done anything to mitigate that threat. Right now, there is no talk of it that has leaked outside and everyone seems to be ignoring the inevitable. Sound familiar?

But the reason I bring it up is because there has been a recent report by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a study being published Tuesday at the International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The study, the work of some 300 scientists from 15 countries, suggest that the Arctic is warming up at twice the global average rate and that at the turn of the century, there may be no Arctic ice remaining. .

According to Robert Correll, the American chair of the International Arctic Science Committee, there is no longer any question that Global warming is the result of human intervention involving the build-up of green house gases. .

Another project conducted under the auspices of NIS involves analyzing ice cores that have been carbon dated for many thousands of years. In the recent ice cores, the scientists since the hand of man all over them. Scientists claim that they have not seen CO2 levels approaching what we see today over literally hundreds of thousands of years—maybe even millions of years. (It has been theorized that CO2 levels were the reason for the extinctions that wiped out 90 plus percent of all species during the Permian Age.)

And because the government has raised doubts about the validity of the findings, scientists have focused on being very attentive to detail to avoid discrepancies and to avoid errors creeping in; nonetheless, the greater care in handling the results has confirmed that the scientists concerns have been borne out…

What this augers is not necessarily more frequent storms and effects but weather patterns of a more severe nature.

What science projects due to the Greenland melting going on now will result in a rise in water levels of three feet over the next 100 years. To put this into perspective, over the last fifteen years, we have seen the equivalent of 105 million acres of Arctic ice that has melted. That is the equivalent of the melting of 98% of all of the ice in the Alps according to the estimates of Robert Correll..

Further, the scientists point out that even if we stopped adding to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is already enough in the atmosphere to raise the temperature another degree and that would be disastrous when to the already rising temperatures in the region.

What is the longer term impact of such melting?…

What is not speculative is Global Warming’s affect on the natural patterns for wildlife. Already, we have seen the results as it affects the polar bear population.

More speculative, perhaps, is the notion advanced by James Burke in earlier studies, and in his famous TV lecture, “Heat” in which it was suggested that increasing Arctic melt may change the density of the North Atlantic, affecting the operation of the “conveyor belt” that maintains the Gulf Stream, the underground river that maintains moderate temperatures world-wide.

If the conveyor belt were to be impacted, the probabilities are great that we will see another Ice Age…

Les Aaron.