UN Report on Climate Change--BLEAK GETS BLEAKER

 The United Nations released today its most recent climate assessment, IPCC | Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis concluding that climate change is accelerating faster than expected and some changes are irreversible, or may take centuries to reverse.

Here are some some of the report's key findings:

A.1 It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.

A.2 The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years.

B.1 Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades.

B.2 Many changes in the climate system become larger in direct relation to increasing global warming. They include increases in the frequency and intensity of hot extremes, marine heatwaves, and heavy precipitation, agricultural and ecological droughts in some regions, and proportion of intense tropical cyclones, as well as reductions in Arctic sea ice, snow cover and permafrost.

B.3 Continued global warming is projected to further intensify the global water cycle, including its variability, global monsoon precipitation and the severity of wet and dry events.

B.4 Under scenarios with increasing CO2 emissions, the ocean and land carbon sinks are projected to be less effective at slowing the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere.

B.5 Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level.

The hope for change cast by the UN and others is admirable, however, given that we cannot even agree that climate change is real and we cannot rally to stop life threatening events like Covid-19 there is not much of a chance that anything will be done.

Climate change is accelerating and as I have been saying for years it continues to be underestimated.

Life extinction events are ahead of us. 

New Yorker Article on Climate Change is Alarming

David Wallace-Wells' recent article in the New Yorker The Uninhabitable Earth
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think is shocking over the ferocity of the anticipated affects of climate change. According to the author, "no matter how well-informed you are, you are surely not alarmed enough..."


You can read the annotated version at, The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition, The facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article that explored our planet’s worst-case scenarios.

For all you UFOligists the article answers why we have not been able to contact life in other parts of the universe, because civilizations go extinct before they are able to develop their technological capability to reach out, and  the development of the Earth's civilization does not necessarily coincide with that of alien cultures.  Interestingly I have said such for years and discussed this during my talk at the ASD conference this summer at Saratoga Springs. We have a culture based on "self-interest" and not the Golden Rule of "do unto others, love" so we invariably resort to violence and go extinct. 

Many have been critical of the article. Robinson Meyer of the Atlantic, Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says?, Why it's so hard to talk about the worst problem in the world says that Wallace -Wells goes beyond what researchers feel is likely and posits main points that mainstream climate change does not support. Yet argues the article is worth reading.

The Washington Post was more critical, Scientists challenge magazine story about ‘uninhabitable Earth’ 

Others were more supportive, Did that New York Magazine Article Freak You Out? Good. It’s okay to talk about how scary climate change is. Really.

Some are critical of the approach, Stop scaring people about climate change. It doesn’t work.

Others raise questions, Is it unethical to have kids in the era of climate change? A philosophy professor explains.

It is a bleak read, arguably fatalistic.

Wallace--Wells raises 9 points;

I)Doomsday

"[A]bsent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century."

 "The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate-wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you they are the best analog for the ecological future we are diving headlong into. Unless you are a teenager, you probably read in your high-school textbooks that these extinctions were the result of asteroids. In fact, all but the one that killed the dinosaurs were caused by climate change produced by greenhouse gas. The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead. We are currently adding carbon to the atmosphere at a considerably faster rate; by most estimates, at least ten times faster. The rate is accelerating."

II) Heat Death,The bahraining of New York.

"Since 1980, the planet has experienced a 50-fold increase in the number of places experiencing dangerous or extreme heat; a bigger increase is to come."

"Even if we meet the Paris goals of two degrees warming, cities like Karachi and Kolkata will become close to uninhabitable, annually encountering deadly heat waves like those that crippled them in 2015. At four degrees, the deadly European heat wave of 2003, which killed as many as 2,000 people a day, will be a normal summer..."

"As soon as several decades from now, the hajj will become physically impossible for the 2 million Muslims who make the pilgrimage each year."

III) The End of Food, Praying for cornfields in the tundra.

"Climates differ and plants vary, but the basic rule for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature is that for every degree of warming, yields decline by 10 percent. Some estimates run as high as 15 or even 17 percent. Which means that if the planet is five degrees warmer at the end of the century, we may have as many as 50 percent more people to feed and 50 percent less grain to give them. And proteins are worse.."

"Drought might be an even bigger problem than heat, with some of the world’s most arable land turning quickly to desert. Precipitation is notoriously hard to model, yet predictions for later this century are basically unanimous: unprecedented droughts nearly everywhere food is today produced. By 2080, without dramatic reductions in emissions, southern Europe will be in permanent extreme drought, much worse than the American dust bowl ever was. The same will be true in Iraq and Syria and much of the rest of the Middle East; some of the most densely populated parts of Australia, Africa, and South America; and the breadbasket regions of China."

IV) Climate Plagues, What happens when the bubonic ice melts?

"What concerns epidemiologists more than ancient diseases are existing scourges relocated, rewired, or even re-evolved by warming. The first effect is geographical. Before the early-modern period, when adventuring sailboats accelerated the mixing of peoples and their bugs, human provinciality was a guard against pandemic...You didn’t much worry about Zika a couple of years ago, either."

"As it happens, Zika may also be a good model of the second worrying effect — disease mutation."

V) Unbreathable Air, A rolling death smog that suffocates millions. 

VI) Perpetual War, The violence baked into heat.

"For every half-degree of warming, they say, societies will see between a 10 and 20 percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict."

VII) Permanent Economic Collapse, Dismal capitalism in a half-poorer world.

VIII) Poisoned Oceans, Sulfide burps off the skeleton coast.

"That the sea will become a killer is a given. Barring a radical reduction of emissions, we will see at least four feet of sea-level rise and possibly ten by the end of the century."

"But the drowning of those homelands is just the start. At present, more than a third of the world’s carbon is sucked up by the oceans — thank God, or else we’d have that much more warming already. But the result is what’s called “ocean acidification,” which, on its own, may add a half a degree to warming this century."

"That isn’t all that ocean acidification can do. Carbon absorption can initiate a feedback loop in which underoxygenated waters breed different kinds of microbes that turn the water still more “anoxic,” first in deep ocean “dead zones,” then gradually up toward the surface."

IX) IX. The Great Filter, Our present eeriness cannot last.

"Surely this blindness will not last — the world we are about to inhabit will not permit it. In a six-degree-warmer world, the Earth’s ecosystem will boil with so many natural disasters that we will just start calling them “weather”: a constant swarm of out-of-control typhoons and tornadoes and floods and droughts, the planet assaulted regularly with climate events that not so long ago destroyed whole civilizations."

"Several of the scientists I spoke with proposed global warming as the solution to Fermi’s famous paradox, which asks, If the universe is so big, then why haven’t we encountered any other intelligent life in it? The answer, they suggested, is that the natural life span of a civilization may be only several thousand years, and the life span of an industrial civilization perhaps only several hundred. In a universe that is many billions of years old, with star systems separated as much by time as by space, civilizations might emerge and develop and burn themselves up simply too fast to ever find one another. Peter Ward, a charismatic paleontologist among those responsible for discovering that the planet’s mass extinctions were caused by greenhouse gas, calls this the “Great Filter”: “Civilizations rise, but there’s an environmental filter that causes them to die off again and disappear fairly quickly,” he told me. “If you look at planet Earth, the filtering we’ve had in the past has been in these mass extinctions.” The mass extinction we are now living through has only just begun; so much more dying is coming."

Climate Change Has Significantly Accelerated

 While doing research I came across a recent research report stating that climate change is significantly accelerating. 

Here is the repo4t

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL118804

Also check out other reports on this subject.  https://motherearthprayers.blogspot.com/search?q=Climate+Change+is+Accelerating%2C

More Signs that the Northeast Needs to Prepare For an Influx of Climate Migrants

I have been saying for years that America's north and Canada is going to see an iinflux of burnt birds looking to escape the devastating affects of Climate Change in the South.

A heat dome over Texas is pushing feel like temperatures to 120° F in the state. The Dallas Morning News is claiming that Texas will be the hottest place in the world for the next few days. 

Other measures are not only saying living in America's south will be unbearable, but impossible. Home owner's insurance is spiking in certain parts of the south. One woman in St. Augustine, Florida got a bill for $36,000 for her historic home.

Add that some insurers such as Farmers are leaving Florida. Similarly we are seeing other insurers refusing to underwrite homes in Florida and other parts of the south and even southern California.This does not bode well for housing and life in Florida and parts of the south.

The Question I have? Where are all these climate migrants going to go? Add that our southern borders are bursting with climate migrants from Central and South America. We have dilemma.

The heat brought by climate change is challenging farmers. It is also raising the cost of farm insurance.

I could go on and on.

Climate Migration is a problem that has been simmering for years and is now accelerating. The lovely life many of us in upstate New York and in other parts of the North have enjoyed is about to come to a thunderous stop.

Be Well.

madis

Report--Climate Change is an Existential Threat to Humankind

Existential climate-related security risk:
A scenario approach

OVERVIEW
● Analysis of climate-related security threats depends significantly on understanding the strengths and limitations of climate science projections. Much scientific knowledge produced for climate policy-making is conservative and reticent.

● Climate change now represents a near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilisation. A new approach to climate-related security risk-management is thus required, giving particular attention to the high-end and difficult-to-quantify “fat-tail” possibilities.

● This may be most effectively explored by scenario analysis. A 2050 scenario is outlined in which accelerating climate- change impacts pose large negative consequences to humanity which might not be undone for centuries.

● To reduce such risks and to sustain human civilisation, it is essential to build a zero- emissions industrial system very quickly. This requires the global mobilization of resources on an emergency basis, akin to a wartime level of response.

The Feared 2° Temp Rise is Here, The Richest 1% pollute more than the bottom 66%

It is believed  that the Earth past a key temperature rise of 2° Celsius above preindustrial levels of 1850-1900 this past Friday and Saturday. Thus indicating that global warming is accelerating, especially  when compared with the 1991-2020 average, Friday's global mean was a record-setting 1.17°C (2.1°F) above average. 

As noted earlier in the month feedback loops are feeding the flames of climate change. http://motherearthprayers.blogspot.com/2023/11/underestimating-climate-change.html

The Rich are driving Climate Change

Oxfam reported 

1) That in 2019, the super-rich 1% were responsible for more carbon emissions than 66% of humanity (5 billion people).

2) Emissions of the richest 1% will cause 1.3 million heat-related deaths between 2020 and 2030—roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Dallas.

WOW. Another angle of wealth inequality that people are not talking about.

To read the Oxfam Report, Top 5 ways billionaires are driving climate change

We are Draining Our Aquifiers Dry in America

 NY Times ran a great story a few days ago about how we are drawing our fresh water aquifers dry.  America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow.

We are draining water faster than nature can replenish it. Four out of every ten sites investigated by the Times have been at record low levels in the past decade.

Sections of Kansas, part of America's bread basket, can no longer support industrial scale farming.

So much water has been pumped out in sections of Texas, Utah and California that roads are buckling.

Global warming  is accelerating the depletion as snow packs are smaller.

As a aquifer is depleted it can crater, or cave in, because it has been emptied.

"It adds up to what might be called a climate trap. As rising temperatures shrink rivers in much of the country, farmers and towns have an incentive to pump more groundwater to make up the difference.

Experts call that a self-defeating strategy. By draining aquifers that filled up over thousands or millions of years, regions risk losing access to that water in the future when they might need it even more, as climate change makes rainfall less predictable or droughts more severe.

“From an objective standpoint, this is a crisis,” said Warigia Bowman, a law professor and water expert at the University of Tulsa. “There will be parts of the U.S. that run out of drinking water.”

As farmers ran out of water, they increasingly switched to what’s called dryland farming, relying on rain alone.

That change is reflected in corn yields over time. Last year, corn growers nationwide produced an average of 173 bushels per acre. But for Wichita County, the yield was just 70.6 bushels, the lowest in more than six decades. The same is true for neighboring counties, whose yields have fallen to where they were in the 1960s.

Kansas has no mechanism in place to stop its groundwater decline.

The Kansas Geological Survey produces what it calls a lifetime map for the Ogallala Aquifer within state borders. It shows that large areas already lack enough water for commercial agricultural irrigation.

In the parts of Western Kansas where the usable portions of the Ogallala are located, more than one-quarter of the aquifer is at what the survey calls “minimum threshold,” according to Brownie Wilson, water data manager with the Kansas Geological Survey. That means it’s not possible to extract 200 gallons per minute, a standard threshold for large-scale irrigation. Within 50 years, almost half of the aquifer in that area is expected to decline to minimum threshold.

Wichita County and neighboring counties have been one of the first areas in Kansas to get close to the bottom of the aquifer, Mr. Wilson said. But they won’t be the last. “Tomorrow is here today for them, in terms of reduced yields,” he said.

Some farmers say they can adapt, including Mr. Watt, who cited advances in plant genetics and also more efficient irrigation and better land management. Experts say farmers nationwide should make similar changes to ensure remaining groundwater is used as carefully as possible.

But those types of innovations will only work for so long, said Bill Golden, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University. “The loss of water is going to outpace the gain of technology,” he said. “Eventually, we’re going to lose.”

Much more--Click on the link and read the article.

More Weird Activity in the Earth's Geomagnetic Field

It was reported today that an unusual compression/crunch within a section of the geomagnetic field led to anomaly in the Norther Lights causing it to twist and contort in unusual patterns..
A mysterious crunch in Earth's magnetic field created a new type of aurora borealis.
Scientists said that it was the first time that they have seen an aurora caused by a compression. They noted that it was not caused by the sun.

The article noted that,

On the day of this particular aurora, a NASA satellite detected a huge compression in Earth's magnetosphere (the protective bubble that the magnetic field creates around the planet) at the moment the lights began spiraling.

Scientists believe it may have been a magnetic storm at the periphery of the geomagnetic fields, but don''t know for sure why the compression happened.

Internal Factors ?

The article gave no consideration to internal factors within the  the geomagnetic  itself for being behind the compression. Instead the focus was on an exogenous shock. Consider

• The geomagnetic field is weakening. Earth's Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now ...https://www.livescience.com › 46694-magnetic-field-weakens
• A rapid shift in the movement of the north pole to Siberia is accelerating baffling scientists and turning theory upside down.Earth's Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now ...https://www.livescience.com › 46694-magnetic-field-weakens  
• We are microwaving our Mother to death with our telecommunications, electric power lines, cell phones, .... and in the process weakening the geomagnetic field. NASA claimed the magnetic shield is weakening at 5% per decade
• AS I have written about on several occasions human activity and intention are diminishing our Mother Grid.
• It is highly likely that climate change and other environmental degradations  are creating a cascading phenomenon that we have no comprehension about.

Something very strange is afoot. The compression in the geomagnetic field is not a good omen. Unfortunately we have not idea of what it portends. Is a pole shift, possibly a physical shift coming? Will climate change and a weakening geomagnetic field create new unimaginable problems?....

Click on pole shift or below to read previous posts on a pole shit.

Below is a video from PBS Space time on the reversing of the Earth's Magnetic Polies.

Texas is Sweltering--More Signs Climate Migration is Accelerating

Parts of Texas are searing with temps above 110°F; Abilene hit 113°F yesterday. Demand for electricity is at record levels--driving up utility bills. This will push climate migration north.

What will also contribute to climate migration north is the unraveling of support staff, or workers, that make every day life possible. High temperatures make working outside during the summer nearly impossible.

Heat wave casualties are increasingly showing up in  Texas and other locales. A UPS driver in north Texas passed out because of heat a few days ago and crashed his truck. Nearly 40 deaths in Dallas County this summer are being investigated as heat-related, according to the medical examiner. Climate change is increasingly putting a hurt on Americas south.

To learn more read my article on, Climate Migration

I have been posting on climate migration for years and will continue to do so.

IPBES--One Million Species Face Extinction

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’

Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’

Current global response insufficient;

‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature;

Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good

Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;

1,000,000 species threatened with extinction

The Report notes that, since 1980, greenhouse gas emissions have doubled, raising average global temperatures by at least 0.7 degrees Celsius – with climate change already impacting nature from the level of ecosystems to that of genetics – impacts expected to increase over the coming decades, in some cases surpassing the impact of land and sea use change and other drivers.

Despite progress to conserve nature and implement policies, the Report also finds that global goals for conserving and sustainably using nature and achieving sustainability cannot be met by current trajectories, and goals for 2030 and beyond may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors. With good progress on components of only four of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, it is likely that most will be missed by the 2020 deadline. Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% (35 out of 44) of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 and 15). Loss of biodiversity is therefore shown to be not only an environmental issue, but also a developmental, economic, security, social and moral issue as well.

“To better understand and, more importantly, to address the main causes of damage to biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, we need to understand the history and global interconnection of complex demographic and economic indirect drivers of change, as well as the social values that underpin them,” said Prof. Brondízio. “Key indirect drivers include increased population and per capita consumption; technological innovation, which in some cases has lowered and in other cases increased the damage to nature; and, critically, issues of governance and accountability. A pattern that emerges is one of global interconnectivity and ‘telecoupling’ – with resource extraction and production often occurring in one part of the world to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions.”

Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. On average these trends have been less severe or avoided in areas held or managed by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

More than a third of the world’s land surface and nearly 75% of freshwater resources are now devoted to crop or livestock production.

The value of agricultural crop production has increased by about 300% since 1970, raw timber harvest has risen by 45% and approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year – having nearly doubled since 1980.

Land degradation has reduced the productivity of 23% of the global land surface, up to US$577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss and 100-300 million people are at increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection.

In 2015, 33% of marine fish stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels; 60% were maximally sustainably fished, with just 7% harvested at levels lower than what can be sustainably fished.

Urban areas have more than doubled since 1992.

Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, 300-400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge and other wastes from industrial facilities are dumped annually into the world’s waters, and fertilizers entering coastal ecosystems have produced more than 400 ocean ‘dead zones’, totalling more than 245,000 km2 (591-595) - a combined area greater than that of the United Kingdom.

Negative trends in nature will continue to 2050 and beyond in all of the policy scenarios explored in the Report, except those that include transformative change – due to the projected impacts of increasing land-use change, exploitation of organisms and climate change, although with significant differences between regions.

Sea Rise Higher Than Expected--America's Gulf Coast and Southern Coasts Suffer

Recent studies show seas are rising at unprecedented rates along the Gulf Coast and sections of the Southeast coast---10 millimeters, or .4 inches a year. Per the report

While there is evidence for an acceleration in global mean sea level (MSL) since the 1960s, its detection at local levels has been hampered by the considerable influence of natural variability on the rate of MSL change. Here we report a MSL acceleration in tide gauge records along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts that has led to rates (>10 mm yr−1 since 2010) that are unprecedented in at least 120 years.

Climate change is accelerating and we keep underestimating the rate of change. Sea rises have a snowball affect, as fresh water estuaries near the ocean are being salinated. Which means our deficiency of potable(drinkable) water is growing.

Surprising, Unusual and Weird affects of Our Environmental Criis

Our environmental crisis is worsening, and the decline is accelerating. The realization a few days ago that 2023 was the hottest year on record by far, and that we are getting close to  surpassing the 1.5° C (1.48°C)  rise that we could not afford to pass  tells me so. Because of our environmental crisis we are also beginning to get surprises and unusual events occurring most of us would never have imagined. These Bizarre and Surprising Events--are a Tell, a Sign--it's BAD and getting WORSE!

These strange and surprising events are occurring because we do not understand the magnitude of our environmental crisis and the damage we are doing to our Mother. Nor do we understand how linked we are to each other, the world and to events. As an Earth Healer and Keeper of Sacred Sites, who works with the Unseen World, that Hidden World beyond our normal perceptions I can honestly say--WE ARE CLUELESS about our Mother!

Some of you may be more prescient than I, but I think the following are a few things that got me to say WOW!

Lats Summer's Wildfires--The smoke from Canadian wildfires that blanketed large swaths of America last summer were a big surprise. Did you ever hear that Wildfires would choke America. I sure didn't and even some of my diehard environmentalist friends were caught by surprisel.

It really sucked to have to stay indoors and not go hiking, or be outside because it was dangerous to breather the air.

Ticks, Butterflies, Spiders, Cockroaches (?) Bugs of all sorts are dramatically declining in number because of electropollution. RF radiation from cell phones and cell towers is doing great damage to wildlife. So reports the Cellular Phone Task Force. EVEN THE TICKS ARE VANISHING  Don't know about cockroaches dying, but ticks tell me they are. I don't know if it was a myth or not, but it has been said that  cockroaches have survived all sorts of cataclysms and some could survive the fallout of a nuclear blast.

Climate Change and the Shrinking Brain. A study of the last 50,000 years found that warmer periods on the Earth were associated with a decline of as much 10.7% in brain size. Cognitive consequences: Study reveals startling link between climate change and shrinking of human brain

Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years

Reuters reported that Switzerland's glaciers have declined by 10% over the last two years. The hot summers and lack of snow fall this past winter  contributed to the decline. To put the decline in perspective the loss amounts to the volume lost between 1960 to 1990. To read the report, Swiss glaciers lose 10% of volume in worst two years on record

Climate Change is accelerating and our Environmental Crisis is off the rails.

Hurricanes Staying Stronger After Landfall

A recent report in Nature (Tropical cyclones could last longer after landfall in a warming world) found that hurricanes forming in the North Atlantic Basin are staying stronger after they hit landfill because of warmer sea water. One of the results of climate change is that the water temperature of our ocean's has been rising since the 1960's 

It seems that the payback of OUR abuse of our Mother (karma) is accelerating with findings like this, Covid 19, a record number of hurricanes this season, extended fire seasons,,,,etc. WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL.

The World Meteorlogical Organization came out with a report today noting that climate change is accelerating and getting worse. You can click on the link to read the press release or watch the video below.