RECORD BREAKING JULY HEAT -- AGAIN

The  figures  for  July,   2015  are  in.     July,  2015,  is  the  "hottest  July  on  record."

The  importance  of  this  graph  is  not  "just  another  hot  July."

Rather,     it  is  that  the  "little  dots"  reflecting  the  data  have  consistently  stopped  descending  below  the  "Long  Term  Linear  Trend"  red  line.

What  that  means  is,  If  we   make  the  red  line  more  accurate,  it's   NOT  STRAIGHT,  but  rather  CURVED  UPWARDS.

The  termininology  I  employ  to  describe  this  is,   "It's  'going  asymptotic'  --  it's  turning  up  faster  and  faster."

It  conforms  convincingly  to  another  recent  development  --  the  fact  that  the  Methane  Line  on  the   graph  showing  the  global  atmospheric  inventory  of  greenhouse  gases   has  overtaken  the  carbon  dioxide  line ...

What  that  reflects  are  things  like  this:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Ever-more-powerful  methane  geysers  in  Siberia,  Canada,  and  Alaska,      and  more  and  more  methane  being  release  from  the  oceans,  especially  in  the  polar  regions,  where  ocean  currents  drag  the  Equator's  heat   so  that  the  waters  there  are  warming  4  times  as  fast  as  at  the  Equator.

Do  you  see  that  400  parts  per  billion  line  at  the  top  of  the  second  graph?

In  the  first  quarter  of  2015,   methane  levels  in  the  Arctic  air  reached  2,845  parts  per  billion,   requiring  a  graph  seven  (7)  times  higher  than  what  you  see  above.

That's  not   the  "world  average,"    but  that  is  a   shockingly  high   Arctic   measurement.

Now,  here's  the  thing  about  atmospheric  methane:    It  warms  the  world  about  twenty  (20)  times  as  fast   as  atmospheric  carbon  dioxide.

Probably,  we  have  lost  the  race.      We  didn't  wake  up  in  time.

The  land-bound  ice  in  the  world   in  Antarctica,  Greenland,  and  in  higher  altitudes   generates  about  225  feet  in  increased  ocean  depth  --  that  is,  225  feet  ABOVE  current  sea  levels  --  when  you  factor-in   everything.

That  is  155  feet  above  my  head,  where  I  am  sitting  in  Camden  County,  New  Jersey.

That  sounds  like  an  insane  delusion,  doesn't  it?

It's  a  matter,  now,  of  5  decades  or  so,  would  be  my  guess.

Within  5  decades,   as  fools  like  the  Tea  Party  News  Network  post  global  warming  denials,  the  annual  increase  in  ocean  depth  from  global  warming  will   begin  increasing  geometrically,  

from  1/32  of  an  inch,  

to   1/16  of  an  inch,   

to   1/8  of  an  inch,  

to  1/4  of  an  inch,  

to   1/2  of  an  inch,  

to   1  inch,   

2  inches,  

4  inches,  

8  inches,

16  inches,

32  inches,  

and  so  on.


To  understand  the  social  impact  of  each  unit  of  ocean  depth  increase,  multiply  each  inch  of  depth  increase  by  1,000.   In  other  words,  every  1  inch  increase   in sea  depth  makes  every  river  and  creek  near  the  ocean  get  about  83  feet  wider  on  each  shore.

The  world's  estuaries  --  rivers  and  creeks  close  to  the  sea,  and  adjacent  lowlands  --  will  become  permanently  flooded.

That  will  force  approximately  60%  of  the  world's  population  to  relocate,  because  THEY  LIVE  NEXT  TO  THE  ESTUARIES.  

That  will  cause  virtually  all  social  systems  to  break  down.

Billions  will  starve,  as  people  with  guns  --  including  in  our  own  military  --  take  over  the  food  supply  for  themselves  in  the  name  of  "social  order."

Billions  will  die  from  chaos  and  conflict.

Environmental  scientists  should  probably  IMMEDIATELY  begin  entertaining  bizarre  suggestions  for  emergency  mechanisms  to   burn-up   airborne  Arctic  methane  --  things  like tens  of  thousands  of  giant  fans  feeding  atmospheric  gases  into   trash-fed  incinerators.

I  would  also  entertain   bizarre  suggestions  for  carbon  dioxide  sequestration.

Beginning  about  10  years  ago,  I  suggested   the  following ...

Mankind  should  abandon  all  paper  recycling,   and  start  backfilling  abandoned  strip  mines  with   bottoms  above  250  feet  above  sea  level   --  that's  most  of  them   --    with  paper  and  wood.  Perhaps  it  would  help  to  "pickle"   the  cellulose  with  salt,  as  we  do  so.   A  good-size  strip  mine   could  hold  a  year's  worth   of   an  entire  nation's  used  cellulose.    Then,  cap-off  the  cellulose-backfilled  strip  mines,  and  collect  and  burn  any  released  methane    to  generate  power.  90%  of  the  carbon  would  end  up   being  permanently  sequestered  in  the  ground  in  this  low-tech  fashion,     while  fossil  fuel  burning  elsewhere  becomes  less  necessary  as  each  backfilled  strip  mine  becomes  a  power  source.

As  the  cellulose  supply  from  termination  of  paper  recycling  dries  up,   replace  it  with  cellulose  from  fast-growing   pulp  trees   on  vast  tree  farms  in  the  tropics.   Those  tree  farms  are  the  real  cure   --  they  REMOVE  carbon  dioxide  from  the  atmosphere  and  turn  it  into   cellulose.

Such  an  approach  eliminates  Mankind's  additions  to  the  global  atmospheric  inventory  of  greenhouse  gases  in  two   ways  --   as   backfilled-strip-mine  methane  replaces   coal-burning   at  power  plants,  

and  as   tree  farms  remove  carbon  dioxide  from  the  air.