Free-Fall – Sail On, Sailor

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Women and gents, please return to your seats.
Intermission is ending and the second function is
about to start.

The primary function of this system is sort of over and
they’re simply displaying the credit now. We are able to
clearly see who’re concerned . . . producers,
administrators, actors, everybody who had a task on this
blockbuster manufacturing of, “Useless Finish”.

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This epic manufacturing tracks, stay and in colour, the
delivery, life and destabilization of a whole residing world.
We now have reached a saturation level and are
now on the restrict of the capability of the Earth system to
stay in its steady state. We’re approaching true
Free – Fall of life-support programs on the world
scale.

What a present! What riveting impression! A tour de drive!
Produced by . . . directed by and starring . . . US.
Sure, we did it!

That’s proper of us. A tremendous feat. Let it sink in and
then, everybody stand and take a bow. (whereas we nonetheless
can). Okay then, be fast about it. Water degree is
rising actual quick.

Let’s transfer ahead to the second function:
“Surf’s Up”, which has already began.

This epic manufacturing paperwork the chart breaking
development of the rise in world sea ranges. Wow!
All of these nifty, hello – tech digital fashions and
projections, meticulously ready by intelligent
scientists and academicians had been nugatory . . . a
tribute to the absurdity and hubris of attempting to map
elemental forces of nature onto a minuscule
template.

Going through a way forward for accelerating local weather change whereas
blind to worst-case situations is naive at greatest and
fatally silly at worst. So, what’s new?
The alarm was raised not too long ago when local weather
scientists warned:

“The present trajectory appears to be like prefer it’s headed off the
charts, smashing earlier data,” Prof Matthew
England, a local weather scientist on the College of New
South Wales, mentioned at the moment. “What we’re seeing
may be very uncommon,” he mentioned. “That is heading in an
unprecedented course, and may very well be taking us into
uncharted territory.”

Even when the world stopped emitting greenhouse
gases tomorrow, ocean ranges would proceed to
rise.

Not solely is harmful sea degree rise “completely
assured”, however it’s going to hold rising for hundreds of years or

millennia even when the world stopped emitting
greenhouse gases tomorrow, specialists say.
Rising seas are one of the extreme
penalties of a heating local weather which can be already
being felt.

The speedy surge in world ocean temperatures seen
in latest months signifies a local weather sample shift that
might speed up planetary warming and
supercharge tendencies which can be already driving excessive
storms, lethal warmth waves, and climate associated
crises.

Since April, the warming seems to have entered a
new trajectory. In the meantime the world of worldwide sea ice
has dropped by greater than 1 million sq km under the
earlier low.

“If a couple of many years in the past, some individuals may need
thought local weather change was a comparatively slow-moving
phenomenon, we at the moment are witnessing our local weather
altering at a terrifying price,” mentioned Prof Peter Stott,
who leads the UK Met Workplace’s local weather monitoring
and attribution group. “Because the El Niño builds via
the remainder of this yr, including an additional oomph to the
damaging results of human-induced world heating,
many hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the planet and plenty of
numerous ecosystems are going to face extraordinary
challenges and sadly endure nice injury.”
Local weather change fashions and projections fail of their
incapacity to seize the infinite variety of dynamically

linked variables concerned. What seem to be singular
tipping factors typically set off a “cascading” sequence
of associated occasions within the ongoing free – fall; a number of,
collateral occasions (e.g. infrastructure injury, lack of
land, water and meals sources) that coalesce into
system-wide breakdown.

Free – fall . . . meltdown.

A altering local weather is present actuality. Land and
marine heatwaves, forest fires, atmospheric rivers
and floods have develop into the backdrop to day-to-day
life. Watch it stay on TV.

It ought to be understood that the occasions within the world
destabilization that we’re experiencing are primarily
consequent to the principle act which is happening
within the oceans, which absorb greater than 90% of
extra warmth vitality.

Rising sea ranges are maybe probably the most extreme
consequence rising from the continuing local weather
disaster.

Scientists usually are not used to pondering by way of speedy
change, however the trajectory of the worldwide common
temperature on the floor of the ocean has now
entered uncharted territory – rapidly and
accelerating.

CNN  — 
Temperatures in elements of the North Atlantic Ocean
are hovering off the charts, with an “distinctive”
marine warmth wave taking place off the coasts of the

United Kingdom and Eire, sparking considerations
about impacts on marine life.

There are numerous scientific indicators pointing to the
imminent collapse of the Thwaites Glacier (AKA the
“Doomsday Glacier”). As soon as this glacier collapses,
scientists anticipate sea ranges to rise 10 toes or extra in
a reasonably speedy development. At that time, every thing
close to the coasts might be underwater and destroyed.

Joseph Carlisi – Biography     

Born and raised in New York Metropolis, he earned BA and MA levels in Philosophy at Hunter Faculty of the Metropolis College of New York after which continued his graduate research in Philosophy and Synthetic Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Know-how working below the mentorship of Marvin Minsky. Joseph labored as an element time content material and duplicate editor for Harvard College Press (science and medication) whereas attending M.I.T.     

After ten years as a college lecturer, researcher and administrator, he began and managed an promoting / public relations agency in San Diego, CA that dealt with a variety of business accounts. On the tutorial facet, he printed a collection of seven articles on animal conduct for Harvard Journal and two books: “A Information to Private Energy” and most not too long ago “Enjoying God on the Eve of Extinction”.

Joseph Carlisi creates oil on canvas work that may be described as vivid, surreal and sudden. His work have been exhibited and bought in: Honolulu, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York Metropolis, Miami, Tokyo, Yokohama, Amsterdam, Berlin and Salvador Brazil.

Joe’s artwork is out there for buy.

Contact him at carlisijoseph@yahoo.com.

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