NASA’s mission was changed a while back to eliminate atmospheric science as a core priority. Fortunately, the Science Mission Directorate continues its excellent work. It just issued a damning report with hard proof of the climate crisis, including pictures of polar ice caps melting.
The most compelling aspect of the report, though, is the graph of Greenland pictured above. It details “the Greenland melt anomaly, measured as the difference between the number of days on which melting occurred in 2007 compared to the average annual melting days from 1988-2006. The areas with the highest amounts of additional melt days appear in red, and areas with below-average melt days appear in blue.”
This is bad, bad news! Below, I cite another excerpt from the report and then list the URL so that you can read the whole thing for yourself. Before that, though, please indulge me for a moment.
This is the canary in the coal mine. If you live in an area bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, you should make contingency plans to move to higher ground. This is no exaggeration. At this rate, we could be less than a decade from the point of no return. Soon, we could see pictures of polar ice caps melting which will give everyone shivers, even the skeptics and stoics.
I thank NASA for this fine work and for publishing the unvarnished truth.
Here is another portion:
“The year 2007 marked an overall rise in the summertime melting trend over the highest altitudes of the Greenland ice sheet. Melting in areas above 2,000 meters (about 6,560 feet) rose 150 percent above the long-term average, with melting occurring on 25 - 30 more days in 2007 than the average in the previous 19 years.”
To read the entire news item and view a larger graphic, please visit
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17846
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Corbett Kroehler
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