Sobering photos show baby polar bears playing with plastic on Arctic island

 ALEX LASKER, AOL.COM             July 12th 2018  
Tragic photos taken on a remote Arctic island show two young polar bear cubs playing with and chewing on a large sheet of black plastic as their mother looks away. 

The siblings were spotted on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago about 600 miles away from the North Pole, by the Sail Against Plastic team, according to the Independent.

Claire Wallerstein, who recently completed the expedition to the Arctic Circle with a group of 15 Cornish scientists, artists, filmmakers and campaigners, said the trip was an incredible experience but also served as a harsh wakeup call.

"We were very lucky to be invited to take part in this unique expedition, and had an amazing time seeing Arctic wildlife, stunning glaciers and experiencing 24-hour sunlight," she said. "However, it was also a very sobering experience to see just how much plastic is making its way to this incredibly remote and apparently pristine environment."

Wallerstein said that the goal of the trip was to research the impact of plastics on the marine environment near the North Pole.

Sailing on a ship named the Blue Clipper, Wallerstein said she and the Sail Against Plastic team encountered not only plastic but other man-made pollutants as well.

"What we found on the beaches was sadly not so very different from what we find back home," Wallerstein concluded. "There was plenty of fishing waste, but the saddest thing was just how much of the waste blighting the Arctic is the same old disposable detritus of our daily lives: plastic bottles, cotton bud sticks, cigarette ends, wet wipes, polystyrene and food packaging."

The group also came across a plastic bag from a supermarket on the island bearing an ironic logo — the image of a polar bear.

The Independent reports that some of the plastic waste found on the archipelago could be traced back to as far away as Florida.

And while cleanup efforts have been made in the area, researchers say pollution has already taken a heavy toll on the region's Arctic wildlife. The team discovered that a whopping 90 percent of fulmars, a white species of seabird, on Svalbard have plastic bits in their digestive systems.
Thanx Alex Lasker 

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It is not " Let's make a Deal". We have to stop heating up the planet or it will fry us all. And as one of our climate Knights once said, " There is no plan 'B' "

 



Poppa and Me -- take Poppa school show aand tell

Daddy take family to Reno  my sisters  baby sit Nita  chidren  we take them  to  Reno we go in the roling traler  it is fun  mr  Mac help daddy  drive to  Reno   uncle Harvey went with us   uncle Harvey say poppa keep light on for him   I say uncle poppa  poppa in heaven   uncle Havey say  he know  he want poppa keep light on so he  will know the way  to him   mama say uncle  harvey  miss poppa   want to be with poppa   aunt Mae  sing  poppa songs  all the time       my sistr Jenny say  we have to  take care of aunt Mae  uncle Harvey  they they are old  they  want to go to see poppa 
We are home now  stay on the lake   daddy  is take mama  to be alone  soon  I say daddy  not bring  a baby back   I  mama baby  daddy grin say not worry  he not bring baby back    
Now show and tell   the chidren  is happy to see poppa  they  say dsants  you shve the hair of your face  poppa grin   I say he is not sants  he is my poppa   he come for show  and tell   mrs Smith was my teacher   she say welcme  poppa  sit down  poppa sit  in her chair   mrs   say poppa that my chair  poppa gin  say  he know   she sit in the chldren chair  his but is to big   we grin   mrs Smith sit om  the desk   her but was to big to sit in the    chidren chair  , I say poppa  do  card trick for us   poppa  poppa did lot of trick  a girl say poppa  can you be my poppa   I not have a poppa   poppa say  ok  if  your mama  and daddy say I can be your poppa       her name was Mable  she was  sick  Mable went to heaven before poppa  she is have fun with poppa  and my grandmama Rosa  and mr  Larry   poppa tell story  when he was a boy   and fun he had with his grandaddy  
mrs Smith    say time to go out  side    poppa say now we play  kick ball  Carl go the big ball   it was  real big     it was big  like the  one in the gym  mrs  S mrs  Smith say  chidren wil like  to play .mith tell poppa  we go out side before we go home   she say poppa will you be with us   poppa say yes  we  will play hide  and see    we throw ball at poppa  to hit him  the game is name tag   poppa catch ball  he throw it  hit mrs Smith  poppa  hit mrs Smith  all the time he got the ball  mrs Smith say stop poppa  I am not play  poppa say  yes you are  and hit her on the head  and grin   it time to go inside   mrs Smith say poppa  you have been a bad boy   you will sit in the corner   until lunch    mrs Smith write on black bord  when she  write on bord  poppa put a fingr  to his  lip  and went out door   we did not tell poppa  was gone   
mrs Smith say write  what on bord  and say poppa read what it say   mrs  Smith look at corner  poppa was  not there  we grin  and say poppa  is gone    poppa was sit under tree  look at chidren play   mrs smith  say she keep poppa after school  he  not do what she say     CC say mrs Smith we have to stay with poppa    aunt Nee say not leave him   poppa will get in  stuf  
mrs smith say  who Nee  CC say  my aunt  she is Man mama   poppa stay with  them  mrs smith say  she feel for the poor lady  she know poppa is a hand ful 
we went to lunch  poppa say we  clean  our plate  we not clean out plate  he not play hide and see  we clean our plate   mrs Smith say poppa you come  back ok   they never clean they plate  poppa say  you tret the chidren like  baby   treat them  like little people  that is not  old or tall  as you  
we went outside   for a little  time   the bell ring  we went  inside    we want  the time to go out side  to play hide and see    it came time to go out side  we  glad   poppa say  he count the first time  we hide   poppa found  us  I think poppa was peking  like he do at home  I say poppa you pek  poppa say  no   poppa  and mrs Smith grin  
mrs Smith  say   who count   we say we all count  poppa hide   we count to  50   poppa  hide   we look for poppa  we not find poppa   we look in room  we look in ofice  mrs Smith  would say hot warm cold  mrs  Smith say cold  warm  a little   mrs Smith   say hot     we did not see poppa   mrs Smith say time up   we say  poppa where are you  poppa say right here    poppa was  so close   he was  lay on the slide  and we look  did not see him   poppa say he grin at us  when we went under slide  
mrs Smith say poppa  come back  this was a lot of fun    all the chidren like poppa   some  come to my house  to see poppa    poppa come to schol with mama  when she vist   
II will tell you  another story  about my poppa   when I was  on the peewee football team  it was fun  hope you like my story  about my poppa   lot of people love poppa   he was a great man  to lot of  people 

Knight Man C.                                            

Global warming could be far worse than predicted, new study suggests

Doyle Rice                 July 7 , 2018
Collapsing polar ice caps, a green Sahara Desert, a 20-foot sea-level rise. 
That's the potential future of Earth, a new study suggests, noting that global warming could be twice as warm as current climate models predict.

The rate of warming is also remarkable: “The changes we see today are much faster than anything encountered in Earth’s history. In terms of rate of change, we are in unchartered waters,” said study co-author Katrin Meissner of the University of New South Wales in Australia. 

This could mean the landmark Paris Climate Agreement – which seeks to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels – may not be enough to ward off catastrophe.

“Even with just 2 degrees of warming – and potentially just 1.5 degrees – significant impacts on the Earth system are profound,” said study co-author Alan Mix, a scientist from Oregon State University.

“We can expect that sea-level rise could become unstoppable for millennia, impacting much of the world’s population, infrastructure and economic activity,” Mix said.

In looking at Earth's past, scientists can predict what the future will look like. In the study, the researchers looked back at natural global warming periods over the past 3.5 million years and compared them to current man-made warming.

By combining a wide range of measurements from ice cores, sediment layers, fossil records, dating using atomic isotopes and many other established paleoclimate methods, the researchers pieced together the impact of those climatic changes.

Human-inflicted climate change is caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, which release heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the the atmosphere.

Study lead author Hubertus Fischer of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his team found that our current climate predictions may underestimate long-term warming by as much as a factor of two. 

Meissner said that "climate models appear to be trustworthy for small changes, such as for low-emission scenarios over short periods, say over the next few decades out to 2100. But as the change gets larger or more persistent ... it appears they underestimate climate change."

The research also revealed how large areas of the polar ice caps could collapse and significant changes to ecosystems could see the Sahara Desert become green and the edges of tropical forests turn into fire-dominated savanna.

However, Meissner said "we cannot comment on how far in the future these changes will occur."

Referring to the study findings, lead author Fischer said that without serious reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, there is "very little margin for error to meet the Paris targets.”

The study, which was conducted by dozens of researchers from 17 countries, was published last week in Nature Geoscience, a peer-reviewed British journal.
Thanx Doyle Rice
Crusader Jenny , Nanook & Mika

Warning from scientists

 

Hey, Listen to 15,000 scientists !!!

Meet the man who warned of global warming 30 years ago

Thirty years ago, NASA's climate scientist envisioned a hotter world — with surprising accuracy. 
By SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press  JULY 1, 2018 
ames Hansen went out on a limb in 1988 and said global warming was here. He said he wishes “the warning be heeded and actions be taken.”
James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn’t.

NASA’s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a study that came out a couple of months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen’s predictions given the technology of the time. Hansen won’t say, “I told you so.”

“I don’t want to be right in that sense,” Hansen said. That’s because being right means the world is warming at an unprecedented pace and ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting.

Hansen said that what he really wishes happened is “that the warning be heeded and actions be taken.”

They weren’t. Hansen, now 77, regrets not being “able to make this story clear enough for the public.”

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FILE - In this July 22, 2017 file photo, a polar bear climbs out of the water to walk on the ice in the Franklin Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Climate scientists point to the Arctic as the place where climate change is most noticeable with dramatic sea ice loss, a melting Greenland ice sheet, receding glaciers and thawing permafrost. The Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world since 1988.
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Global warming was not what Hansen set out to study when he joined NASA in 1972. The Iowa native studied Venus — a planet with a runaway greenhouse-effect run — when he got interested in Earth’s ozone hole. As he created computer simulations, he realized that “this planet was more interesting than Venus.” And more important.

In his 1988 study, Hansen and colleagues used three different scenarios for emissions of heat-trapping gases — high, low and medium. Hansen and other scientists concentrated on the middle scenario.

Hansen projected that by 2017, the globe’s five-year average temperature would be about 1.85 degrees (1.03 degree Celsius) higher than the 1950 to 1980 NASA-calculated average. NASA’s five-year average global temperature ending in 2017 was 1.48 degrees above the 30-year average. (He did not take into account that the sun would be cooling a tad, which would reduce warming nearly two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, said the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Jeff Severinghaus.)

Hansen also predicted a certain number of days of extreme weather — temperature above 95 degrees, freezing days, and nights when the temperatures that don’t drop below 75 — per year for four U.S. cities in the decade of the 2010s. His forecast generally underestimated this decade’s warming in Washington, overestimated it in Omaha, was about right in New York and mixed in Memphis.

Clara Deser, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said Hansen’s global temperature forecast was “incredible” and his extremes for the cities were “astounding” in their accuracy. Berkeley Earth’s Zeke Hausfather gives Hansen’s predictions a 7 or 8 for accuracy, out of 10; he said Hansen calculated that the climate would respond a bit more to carbon dioxide than scientists now think.

University of Alabama Huntsville’s John Christy, a favorite of those who question climate change, disagreed. Using mathematical formulas to examine Hansen’s projections, he concluded: “Hansen’s predictions were wrong as demonstrated by hypothesis testing.”

Hansen had testified before Congress on climate change at a fall 1987 hearing that didn’t get much attention — likely because it was a cool day, he figured.

So the next hearing was scheduled for the next summer, and the weather added heat to Hansen’s words. At 2 p.m., the temperature hit a record high 98 degrees and felt like 102. It was then and there that Hansen went out on a limb and proclaimed that global warming was already here. Until then most scientists merely warned of future warming.

He left NASA in 2013, devoting more time to what he calls his “anti-government job” of advocacy.

Hansen, still at Columbia University, has been arrested five times for environmental protests. Each time, he hoped to go to trial “to draw attention to the issues” but the cases were dropped. He writes about saving the planet for his grandchildren, including one who is suing the federal government over global warming inaction. His advocacy has been criticized by scientific colleagues, but he makes no apologies.

“If scientists are not allowed to talk about the policy implications of the science, who is going to do that? People with financial interests?” Hansen asked.
Thanx   Seth Borenstein 

Ah, but  Mr.Trump and the right wingers say that this is just a hoax. So there ya go , everyone know Mr. Trump lies .Climate change is real folks.

 Knight Jonny C .