Bringing Cult45 to justice is a huge undertaking - especially considering we have to do it with one arm tied behind our back and being chained to the cold dead tree fall formerly known as the GOP. But, uh-oh - here's that feedback thing again - on steroids and pharmaceutical grade meth. Chris Mooney, WaPo: The Greenland ice sheet’s losses have accelerated so fast since the 1990s it is now shedding more than seven times as much ice each year, according to 89 scientists who use satellites to study the area.
The sheet’s total losses nearly doubled each decade, from 33 billion tons per year in the 1990s to an average now of 254 billion tons annually. Since 1992, nearly 4 trillion tons of Greenland ice have entered the ocean, the new analysis found, equivalent to roughly a centimeter of global sea-level rise.
While a centimeter may not sound like much, that uptick is already affecting millions.
“Around the planet, just 1 centimeter of sea-level rise brings another 6 million people into seasonal, annual floods,” said Andrew Shepherd, a University of Leeds professor who co-led the massive collaboration with NASA researcher Erik Ivins.
The recent Greenland losses, the experts suggest, match a more dire sea-level projection outlined by the United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Under that high-end scenario, Greenland could contribute about 16 centimeters, or around half a foot, to ocean levels by 2100.
“What that means is that really, the midrange scenario becomes what was previously the upper scenario, and they will have to invent a new upper scenario, because one currently doesn’t exist,” Shepherd said.
We'd better get Repubs outa the way by electing smart people who go with real facts and want to help us figure out how to live our best lives.
when you hear any judgment Bill Barr offers, remember that he has publicly declared his belief that “militant secularists” in the media, higher education, entertainment and popular culture seek the “organized destruction” of “God’s eternal law” in the US https://t.co/vECvpVLYD0
Hello, SPCA? Hi - look, there's some National Geographic-type shit goin' on out front of my house right now, and I gotta leave for work - can you get 'em outa here? What? Sure, I'll hold.
There was a right good bit of Press Poodling about how the Dems were up on their hind legs and fighting back yesterday.
In case you were wondering, yes, I'm saying, "Yay - good for those Dems." Cuz this is the part when George has to knock Biff on his ass so we can start making things better.
In 1988, Mike Dukakis - who made a shitload of other self-fucking mistakes - put the last nail in his own coffin lid when he looked monumentally wimpy on national TV because he couldn't come up with any fire when Bernie Shaw asked him how he'd react to his wife being raped and murdered.
One of the really sad things about the Dem primary so far is that Kamala Harris dropped out. She can bring that fire with the best of 'em. Maybe she'll be available for the Veep slot, or maybe AG.
