This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Tuesday, 2 January 2024
Reasons To Be Cheerful?
Research suggests that ice shelf melting over Antarctica's Amundsen Sea is 'locked in'. This means that, even if human climate-changing emissions were significantly reduced, this melt would continue for the rest of the current century (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/red-alert-in-antarctica-the-year-rapid-dramatic-change-hit-climate-scientists-like-a-punch-in-the-guts). This dramatic ice loss is already having a devastating effect on animals, such as penguins and seals, in this polar region. It will also have major impacts on global weather patterns and, of course, sea levels. This scenario sounds to me, suspiciously like one of those 'tipping points' (points of no return), we humans were supposed to strive to avoid?
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