"Just the little bit of extra heat from a tiny soot particle can start transforming feathery and highly reflective snow crystals into darker, rounded grains that absorb more heat." —Jason Box
Breaking: Miami, New York and other coastal cities take heed.
@CopernicusEU near realtime #Sentinel3-A OLCI image reveals bare ice near the start of the #Greenland melt season across the southwestern ice sheet periphery. The area is normally snow covered by now, making it pre-conditioned for abnormally high ice loss from melting in 2018. Jason BoxGlobal average sea level is expected to rise by one foot between 2000 and 2050 and by several more feet by the end of the century under a high-pollution scenario because of the effects of climate change, according to the projections in the new peer-reviewed study. It shows 21st century sea-level rise could be kept to less than two feet if greenhouse gas emissions are aggressively and immediately reduced, reflecting a larger gap in sea-level consequences between high and low emissions scenarios than previous research has indicated.
Just look at this chunk of bare ice that broke off Illusiatt Glacier. Yow!