sounds like the current big tricky question is what level of exponential warming is the sea water doing to the under side of the ice shelf's
i was recently confused about plankton frozen in the ice releasing carbon and how that played out in the balance of thins.
i think it may be hundreds of tons of algae frozen which will become unfrozen and will never be frozen again.
i didnt look too far into it.
One of the biggest problems confronting the world is that, due to fear, it is easy to conflate the issues we are facing.
I am just as guilty as any one and constantly need to check and recheck the facts being bandied about by others and even my self.
For example, I just posted about our local monthly averages, forgetting that they were actually averages and it is early in the month of June. Average figures are achieved by adding up all the variables and dividing by the number of variables. this means that there are many variables that are deviations from the average conclusion.
To be overly concerned about early "deviations" is more about "paranoia" or hysteria than it is about dealing with the actual reality.
Sure high early month max. temps bodes negatively but there is no reason to dwell excessively until more data ( for the entire month) comes in.
I am just saying this because it is easy to get caught up in all the speculation and fail to realize that it is just that speculation usually premised on fear.
There are many alarm bells ringing in so many fields. From insect population decline, bee population devastation, mass animal die offs, oceanic dead spots, ice cap melting, extreme weather events etc. so one could easily conclude that ... something is happening at least. Many of the issues are not related to climate directly, like plastic pollution and micro plastic consumption killing many animals and polluting our food chain.
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What we don't know may save us....
Regards the ice shelf bacteria issue, what is it to suggest that there may be unknown bacteria types that have been trapped since the last ice age that were actually responsible for that ice age by consuming CO2 and got trapped as part of the planets balancing act when confronted with global warming? That after they are released by global warming they solve the problem forcing the world into a pseudo ice age instead.
We simply do not know what is strapped in the ice... We can only guess as to the bulk of it...
I have often suggested that it is not what we know that will save us as what we know tells us we are in for it, but it is what we don't know that may...