One of The Most Frightening Climate Change Predictions Seems to Be Already Happening

[Judi Lynn]

Oh no oh no oh no...


CHRIS MOONEY, THE WASHINGTON POST
24 APR 2018

Two years ago, former NASA climate scientist James Hansen and a number of colleagues laid out a dire scenario in which gigantic pulses of fresh water from melting glaciers could upend the circulation of the oceans, leading to a world of fast-rising seas and even superstorms.


Hansen's scenario was based on a computer simulation, not hard data from the real world, and met with skepticism from a number of other climate scientists.

But now, a new oceanographic study appears to have confirmed one aspect of this picture - in its early stages, at least.

The new research, based on ocean measurements off the coast of East Antarctica, shows that melting Antarctic glaciers are indeed freshening the ocean around them.

And this, in turn, is blocking a process in which cold and salty ocean water sinks below the sea surface in winter, forming "the densest water on the Earth," in the words of study lead author Alessandro Silvano, a researcher with the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/one-of-the-most-frightening-climate-change-scenarios-may-have-begun

[thbobby]

1. Our children and grandchildren may need to learn

to breath methane. If the circulation of the ocean stalls, massive "dead-zones" will form. Bacteria that produce methane will thrive in these dead zones. This could be a repeat of what caused the Cambrian Mass Extinction.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. No, our children will not need to learn to breathe methane.

Our atmosphere will not change that drastically. I could be facetious and say they'll need gills, but even that's not accurate.

Sea levels will rise. That's a given. That means all of you who live on or near the oceans will be forced to migrate inland.

What will happen is vast disruptions of populations, climate refugees, and battles over land and water.

[StevieM]

8. You should read this.

http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm

[Delphinus]

9. Can you

tell me who wrote this? I tried to find a link in there and saw it was written in another language.

[StevieM]

10. I can't figure it out either. It is a good article though. (eom)

[Delphinus]

11. Very much so -

I've not seen it laid out so clearly.

[Kablooie]

3. The human race may be in for some evolutionary pruning soon.

Once the climate changes substantially there will be some people who can't take it and will die as a result.
Over time this will leave only those who can handle a climate that fluctuates between warm and scorching instead of cold and warm.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. "can't take it" less money than their superiors

who will buy themselves to safety for as long as they can.

[pansypoo53219]

4. my cousin a climate PHd insists we are fucked as a species.

[defacto7]

5. No doubt.. nt

[Nay]

6. All the biologists and forest experts, and the one insect expert I know, also

say we are fucked as a species. There's no coming back from this one, even if we had a crash program.