I don't think most people are aware just now of what, exactly, is going on, worldwide, with weather and the catastrophes that are taking place just now.
Here's one, the first here today--
“Greenland is home to the world's second-largest ice sheet. And when it melts significantly -- as it is expected to do this year -- there are knock-on effects for sea levels and weather across the globe.
Greenland's ice sheet usually melts during the summer. This year, it started melting earlier, in May, and this week's heatwave is expected to accelerate the melt.
… 2019 could come close to the record-setting year of 2012, said Jason Box, professor and ice climatologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. During that ‘…year’…, Greenland's ice sheet lost 450 million metric tons -- the equivalent of more than 14,000 tons of ice lost per second.”
“…it's already poised to rival the proportions of 2012 -- and we haven't even reached the end of summer. In July alone, Greenland's ice sheet lost 160 billion tons of ice, according to Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the UN World Meteorological Organization.
‘Normally when you get a temperature record broken, it's by a fraction of a degree,’ said Nullis. ‘What we saw yesterday was records being broken by two, three, four degrees -- it was absolutely incredible.’"
Greenland is in the Grips of a Heatwave; Here's What It Means for All of Us
That alone is huge but then, this is taking place in Siberia, Russia.
Vast Wildfires in Siberia a Potential "Disaster" for Arctic, and the World's Climate
This, too, is happening now in Japan.
11 dead, 5,600 sent to hospitals last week due to heatwave
There is also this from Japan:
Olympics: Dangerous heat, wild weather a major challenge for Tokyo Games Japan gripped by heat wave, mercury tops 39 C in Hokkaido town Longer, wetter than usual rainy season ends in Tokyo area
Again, now, this week.
United Kingdom sets all-time high temperature record
Finally, there is this:
A Major River in Europe Hit by Drought Could Create Economic Havoc
“A heatwave in Europe is causing low water levels on the…Rhine…”
At what point do climate deniers give it up? At what point do the get on board, so to speak, and accept our current reality, let alone what is projected to happen across the world, if we don't cut carbon dioxide emissions and pollution?
