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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (278953)	9/2/2015 1:49:55 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 362360

too bad .. thought it was more recent Maybe if his heart goes into rejection..then the gods will smile

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (278953)	9/2/2015 1:53:45 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 362360

Why ground cover ice matters............ Alaska’s glaciers are now losing 75 billion tons of ice every year “The weight of water, how much ice and snow and surface groundwater we’ve lost, is really a profound measure of how much this landscape has changed over a decade,” Morton continues. Recent research suggests that overall, Alaska’s glaciers are losing 75 gigatons of ice, or 75 billion metric tons — a stat that President Obama himself has been citing as he tours the state. But what the new NASA research endeavor focuses on is how changes like this lead to follow-on effects. For instance, melting ice earlier in the year dries out the ground, which can in turn set the stage for gigantic wildfires — this year’s blazes took out over 5 million acres in the state — which in turn sets the stage for the loss of permafrost, the frozen ground beneath, which is exposed to warmer temperatures once the forests above it burn away. Extreme fire “takes the cover off of the permafrost, and its protected layer goes away, so the permafrost is now more vulnerable to thaw and change,” says NASA’s Miller.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (278953)	9/2/2015 2:27:26 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

If mankind goes through......... 2C warming... its a Slippery Slope to 6+....... Nature will find a way.... jtf... May 17 2015.. The Guardian........ Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet.A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification. Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later to 6C. ... The Shell document says: “Both our (oceans and mountains) scenarios and the IEA New Policies scenario (and our base case energy demand and outlook) do not limit emissions to be consistent with the back-calculated 450 parts per million (Co2 in the atmosphere) 2 degrees C.” It adds: “We also do not see governments taking steps now that are consistent with 2 degrees C scenario.” Bonn (AFP) - Inadequate national targets for curbing climate-altering greenhouse gases meant emissions would be "far above" the level required to stave off disastrous global warming, analysts warned Wednesday. "The climate targets so far submitted to the UN by governments collectively lead to global emissions far above the levels needed to hold warming to below 2 C," said a CAT statement.Instead of the UN-targeted ceiling of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of average warming over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, the world was on track for 2.9-3.1 C by 2100, according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a tool developed by a consortium of four research organisations.