Mercator Climate Lecture 2016 - Livestream from June 1, 2016

[@jiashan1909]

Ottmar, one of the leading minds ;-)

[@freerovingbovine]

If we seriously want to continue to live on this planet, it will take work. And the net work is the difference between the heat absorbed and that rejected. So, unless we manage this basic principle of the 2nd law of thermodynamics we cannot achieve a sustainable future of man on earth. www.calpoly.edu/~rbrown/entropy.html The planet is accumulating heat at an alarming rate, perhaps faster than we can even imagine with our limited knowledge of the 4.5 billion year history of the planet. The current rate is about 12.5 ZJ per year, 22 times the rate of all human energy consumption. This rate is about 3x that of what it was 16 years ago. Unless we develop the means to effectively reject waste heat sustaining our environment is futile. Once the ice is gone during summer, temperatures will rise as heat accumulates until the Stephan Boltzmann 4th power law achieves equilibrium. But, that might be when it starts snowing galena and bismuth, like on Venus. If we can put a man on the moon, we can reject 12.5 ZJ of waste heat off the planet every year. Please search for Cool Earth Capital to read more. The problem is much bigger than just fossil fuels alone. I am only a retired engineer and an adjunct professor of engineering at a community college but I think the problem is much bigger than fossil fuels alone. ipcc.wikia.com/wiki/Box_153.1:_Change_in_Global_Energy_Inventory

[@WhirledPublishing]

Warm ocean waters are drilling river tunnels nearly 300 meters high into the ice shelves while glacial ponds are drilling river tunnels downward - which is making the ice shelves look more like Swiss cheese while glaciers - the size of Pennsylvania, weighing billions of tons - are precariously perched on top. What happens when the ice shelves collapse and the equivalent of Pennsylvania crashes into the sea? Pennsylvania is 283 miles from east to west - knowing this, you can extrapolate this image to get the idea of how big the displacement tsunami waves will be: previews.123rf.com/images/discovod/discovod1201/discovod120100085/12067347-ice-cubes-dropped-into-water-with-splash-on-white-Stock-Photo.jpg It's pointless for you to see the math because the calculations are inconceivable and too easily deniable for people at your level or research - the image above, however, along with knowing some of the glaciers are hundreds of miles long will help you realize we are on the brink of worldwide devastation. Since Antarctica has about 50 life-threatening glaciers which can launch tsunami waves, and since Greenland, although much smaller, also has about 50 - because the EAIS has only a hand-full of glaciers that are now threatening life on Earth - we can add these numbers to the life-threatening glaciers of Alaska, Canada and Norway / Svalbard which have about 20 each. Altogether, we have close to 200 glaciers that can launch tsunami waves large enough to destroy villages, towns and/or cities around the world. This is the Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly map so you can begin to realize how unusually warm our oceans are - this unusually high volume of heat is primarily the result of volcanic eruptions on the sea floor - look at the coastal region of Alaska and ask yourself if this heat is from the CO2: polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/ophi/color_newdisp_anomaly_global_lat_lon_ophi0.png As these tsunami waves ripple around the world, hundreds of nuclear reactors and thousands of nuclear waste storage tanks will be decimated, along with millions of cities, towns and villages and the billions of lives that are unaware of the dangers. The facts, the evidence, the data goes on and on and on - if it's too much for you to wrap your brain around all this, kindly pause a moment to realize everyone in your audience is depending on you to tell them the truth about climate change.