Oxygen Level Decrease in Air from Climate Change // Published on Feb 26, 2016
Combustion of fossil fuels causes oxygen to decrease in the atmosphere/ocean system. As does deforestation, exponential population growth and phytoplankton loss in the oceans from warming stratification limiting nutrients at the surface. It is often said that the oxygen in every second breath you take is produced by photo plankton, that are the true lungs of the planet. I discuss the extend of the oxygen decrease, which is more than you want to know. Please visit my website paulbeckwith.net and help support my videos/research (self-funded) via the Please Donate tab.
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Catherine McKenna: ‘This is what the Paris Agreement Means For Me // Published on 2/25/2016
We are in a climate system EMERGENCY. The exponential decline of Arctic sea ice and snow cover is darkening the region leading to increased absorption of sunlight and thus temperature amplification. This lowers the temperature difference relative to the equator making the jet stream get slower and wavier, and slowing the ocean currents.
Jet stream change leads to increased frequency, severity and duration of extreme weather events like extended droughts (California), heat waves and torrential rain events causing flooding (Calgary, Toronto). There is an enormous risk in the Arctic of methane bursts that would dwarf all human emissions since the industrial revolution, rendering human action futile if we pass these tipping points.
Paris was important to initiate the process of slashing global emissions to zero, but is only Leg #1 of a three-leg barstool. Leg #2 is regional cooling of the Arctic to prevent cascading amplifying feedbacks and stabilize jet streams and thus weather patterns. Leg #3 is removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere/ocean reservoirs to stabilize climate and prevent ocean acidity taking out phytoplankton at the base of the marine food web.
A barstool cannot stand with less than 3 legs. We must proceed with all three things as if our lives on this planet depend on it. Because they do.
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Our Ongoing Climate System Destabilization // Published on Feb 24, 2016
The Arctic region average temperature is from 6 to 8 degrees Celsius (11 to 15 F) warmer than normal. Arctic sea ice extent maximum occurred a month early. Our climate system is breaking apart in front of our eyes. Ridiculously, the term “faster than normal” is still used to describe sea ice collapse, accelerating sea level rise and every other climate system parameter. Nothing is normal with our ongoing exponentially abrupt climate change…
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Risk From Abrupt Climate Change is Enormous // Published on Feb 25, 2016
People (public, politicians, even scientists) are terrible at evaluating RISK. As a result, society makes many stupid choices and fails to worry and deal with the most serious problems. People need to worry a lot more about abrupt climate change, which dwarfs all other risks.
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Usual favorite! As you all know, I love to be interviewed by Alex Smith, and in this episode, I get to follow heavy hitter, paleontologist Dr. Peter Ward[1] on Eco Shock Radio, ‘the expert on past mass extinctions, and maybe the present one‘, then joined by ‘climate scientist Paul Beckwith‘. And there ‘is serious news about plankton, the tiny ocean plants that feed the seas, and provide most of the oxygen you are breathing right now‘.
Impatient listeners, can click to the 30:29 mark, to go right to my ample 28:21 segment, but I think the entire episode bears careful listening. Thank you Peter and Alex!
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Tonight, I got to listen in then meet with Andre Revkin of the DotEarth blog of the New York Times, at Carlton University here in Ottawa. They have been running a series of lectures this month and next on “Bringing Research to Life”. Tonight’s Discovery Lecture was titled “The New Communication Climate”.
I have been wanting to meet Andrew for a long time. We have connected by social media and email a few times in the past and I wanted to make sure he was up-to-speed on the ongoing Arctic Sea Ice slaughter, the jet stream disruption and the ongoing methane risks.
I was extremely happy that he already knew most of this and about my group AMEG (Arctic Methane Emergency Group), having met Peter Wadhams (AMEG member and the UK’s top sea ice researcher) during the Vatican meetings with the Pope to get material for the encyclical.
I directed Revkin to this website and told him about my >100 YouTube videos on abrupt climate system change [2].
Andrew is a very engaging and knowledgeable speaker with over 3 decades of media experience. He has been in the Arctic four times, since, as he put it “the NYT does not have an Arctic bureau“.
He does get climate change. I discussed my three-legged bar stool analogy (zeroing carbon emissions, SRM to cool the Arctic, CDR to sustain life in the oceans) and also told him about my efforts with Norwegian colleagues at Gaia Engineering.
As he just said on Facebook, ‘Long but fascinating and fruitful day of student and faculty meetings and then discussions after my talk on the changing communication climate. Here with Chris Russill of Carleton University Journalism School and Paul Beckwith of AMEG (photo my Times colleague Ian Austen).‘
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Some things require no explanation. Thanks to my good associate, Espen Xandrius Leinæs, of Gaia Engineering AS [3], for his creative and provocative work. I think he is onto something deep and true here.
[2] Since we were at 200,239 views just 22 days ago and now at 212,354, that’s 12,115 views since then, that’s an annual rate of 200k per year. Previously, we were hoping to get there by END of 2016, but where major helper David Korn told me to be ready for 1/3rd of 1,000,000 by year end, we are now sure to get there even sooner. Donation button here. We are self funding and work under tight constraints, on my most modest part-time professor income.
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[3] The start up in Norway, which I am part of. We have ideas for cloudmaking technology, with a view to saving the earth. Some will say, ‘impossible’. Others, will say, ‘beyond daunting but we must try’.
But first please take note that this stems from its founding interview with me, ‘Episode 1: Paul Beckwith Interview – Abrupt Climate Change and Relief Operations‘, which was followed equally nicely, with ‘Episode 2: Jennifer Hynes Interview – Embracing Abrupt Climate Change with a Humanitarian Spirit‘. Nick is off to a great start, and Kevin Hester was recently recorded, and likely to print in full next week, as Episode 4 (clips are in this Episode 3)
Rick Gannotta explored my proposition in Episode 1, ‘that abrupt polar climate changes (e.g. a “Blue Ocean Event“) could increase the number of lower-latitude disasters by a factor of 10-20 times–and drew parallels with the medical response on par with the September 11, 2001 attacks, and a level of international collaboration required on par with the Kyoto Protocol.‘
Relief Analysis also says that ‘Gannotta’s “Be Here, Be Now” philosophy itself comes across strongly in the interview, as he is able to navigate a broad spectrum of issues and provide insights within a medical framework. His ability to curate issues of vital importance to the disaster management and humanitarian assistance community is truly formidable.’
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I am glad to continue to be regularly engaged by Extinction Radio, most recently in Episode 47, Feb 12, 2016 with Peter Melton [2]. Go to 59:28 mark, where I discuss phytoplankton decline, marine life affect on oxygen, increasing carbon sinks and increasing phytoplankton, significant lack of information on this subject, and disruptions of surface currents and gulf stream. 15:51 long. Full episode here:
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[1] dk, I cannot recall a single time in the last half year or so, that when Jennifer and Paul both had webpages, that BOTH highlighted and hosted the same podcast and content, concurrently AS SEPARATE ACTIONS. If this does not get your attention, then nothing should. Wendy Bandurski-Miller (‘Redreamer‘) was moreover, that much more vocal that Rick needed to be heard, so that makes three. This guy is the real deal. Delightful.
[2] Works extensively with Carolyn Baker, and most recently Dean Spillane Walker, and again continues to powerfully support Guy McPherson.
Friendly reminder, Paul is joining in live, with Jennifer Hynes at her Methane Emergency meeting today, who was invited by Kevin Hester to join him in Auckland Saturday at 7 pm EST, 4 pm PST, midnight London. And the esteemed Dr. Guy McPherson will be there, too. So that makes two of us. A great honor.
Global Ocean Phytoplankton in Severe Decline // Published on Feb 9, 2016
Phytoplankton are about half the global biomass, and they are the base of the ocean food chain, and produce the oxygen in every other breath you take.
In 2010 a landmark paper reported that from 1950 to 2010 the global oceans suffered a severe drop in phytoplankton of almost 1% per year (40% drop). What has happened since then; find out in this video [1].
My only support for my work is you, so please consider a donation here. Easy to do through my link to easy to use PayPal feature.
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Published on Feb 6, 2016
The ocean surface currents and temperatures are not behaving normally. Abrupt climate change that is presently underway is changing ocean properties; I discuss how and why for the Pacific and Atlantic basins.
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Arctic Sea Ice Status: Crappy // Published on Feb 6, 2016
I give a status update on the state of the Arctic sea ice in terms of Volume, Thickness, Extent and Area trends. Not looking good. Remember my quote from years ago:
“What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. Not like Vegas.” Paul Beckwith, 2012
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It is with great honor, that I was asked to join famed diet and nutrition expert Garry Null on his Progressive Radio Hour with Dr. Guy McPherson. We discussed abrupt climate change and its impact on food, society, here on 02.02.2016 and is 58:45 long podcast.
Gary really zeros in on the truth here, and if a social influencer on diet–of his stature and significance–is asking two ardent scientists for their unvarnished opinions on abrupt climate change, you know its getting serious out there, if not widely accepted as undeniable fact to be reckoned with.
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Before signing off, FYI, my YouTube Channel, PaulHBeckwith, tonight topped over 200k to 200,239 views. It was 163.2k in September. That’s 37,000 views in five months. Donate button here. This site is funded to 2/3rds of cost and not counting Paris is done on a shoestring. Always appreciate generous reader and fan support. Thank you.
[dk: If Paul had 4k views in the first short year, 18k in the second year, 35k in the third, and 57k in the fourth, and 78k in fifth, and a run rate of 8k+ for this last month, its not too hard to see 100k views added in the next year when accounting for reasonable growth, headed to a third of a million…. ]
Here are the last of the videos that I filmed in Paris. The COP21 that I attended there just over a month ago seems to be a vague and distant memory; not just for me but for a planet steamrolling itself over the edge of a cliff.
Every day we see signs of a climate system in chaos. Temperature in Brazil too warm and wet spreading Ziki carrying mosquitos to bite pregnant mothers causing severely shrunken baby heads. What a nightmare, over 4000 cases there, and now 4 in Canada (my guess is over 40 in the US, but nothing reported yet).
On a lighter note, I am literally following about a dozen sharks. They transmit their positions, and their movements are plotted out over time and tweeted out. They have even started following me:) Crazy world…
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Brief thoughts at end of COP21 Paris Conference // Published on Jan 10, 2016
Hours after the Paris Agreement at the COP21 climate change conference was finalized; I give some brief thoughts in the main Press Centre.
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Electricity in Air at end of COP21 in Paris // Published on Jan 10, 2016
I found a strategic location at the exit door to film delegates exiting the final COP21 negotiations which I was unable to gain access to. The excitement in the air was palpable!
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Earth System Climate Science Overview // Published on Jan 11, 2016
I filmed this excellent presentation at the US Booth “hyperwall” at COP21 in Paris.
Please support the continuation of my climate science outreach with a donation on my website paulbeckwith.net (“Please Donate” button is on far right of main task bar)…
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Scenarios for Arctic Change and Global Consequences // Published on Jan 11, 2016
I filmed this presentation at COP21 in Paris. Jean-Claude Goscard talks at an EU-PolarNet event (ICE-ARC) on Dec 5, 2015
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Earth System Satellite Information: Now and Future // Published on Jan 11, 2016
I filmed this “hyperwall” presentation at the US Booth at COP21 in Paris. It is a great overview of existing instruments on monitoring satellites, as well as future plans for launches.
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Climate Change and Investment: Carney@Bloomberg // Published on Jan 11, 2016
I filmed this exchange between Central Bank of England head Mark Carney and ex-Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg on December 4th at COP21 in Paris.
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Arctic Ocean Blowtorch Attacks Sea-Ice // Published on Jan 24, 2016
Our climate system has destabilized. Our fossil-fueled emissions have changed the chemistry of our atmosphere and our oceans, changing the heat balance between the equator and Arctic. This has fractured the jet streams, and brings us closer to a new planet with zero snow and ice in the Arctic. Here is what is happening…
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Climate System Emergency 1/2 (Beckwith@Carter) // Published on Jan 24, 2016
My colleague in AMEG (Arctic Methane Emergency Group) Peter Carter, has generated numerous slides recently, which deserve widespread exposure to the Public. In this 2 part video series, I present this data which clearly show we are in a full-scale abrupt climate change emergency.
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Climate System Emergency (2/2) (Beckwith@Carter) // Published on Jan 24, 2016
My colleague in AMEG (Arctic Methane Emergency Group) Peter Carter, has generated numerous slides recently, which deserve widespread exposure to the Public. In this second of the 2 part video series, I present this data which clearly show we are in a full-scale abrupt climate change emergency.
Global turmoil above 1.5 degree C; COP21 // Published on Jan 10, 2016
Dr Saleem Huq, an IPCC author talks at a COP21 Paris media event about the incredible dangers to society of exceeding 1.5 degrees C
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Climate Science in 3D on a Sphere // Published on Jan 12, 2016
I filmed this 2 part video at the US Booth at COP21 in Paris. NOAA invented some nifty technology to project Earth Science information onto the surface of a sphere. A great presentation; this is Part 1/2.
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Climate Science in 3D on a Sphere (2/2) // Published on Jan 12, 2016
I filmed this 2 part video at the US Booth at COP21 in Paris. NOAA invented some nifty technology to project Earth Science information onto the surface of a sphere. A great presentation; this is Part 2/2.
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And as usual, here I am on Extinction Radio, Episode 44, from Fri 22_Jan, 2016.
Impatient listeners, can simply click here, to the segment, starting at 36:35. It is 30:39 long, and has ample content. Hope you enjoy.
Jet Stream Shift 17 degrees Southward to Greenland
Summary
Well known and respected creator of entertaining and comprehensible videos of sometimes daunting subjects, especially in climate system science, meteorology, oceanography and Earth Sciences at YouTube.
Frequently called upon for commentary by fellow educators, activists, and public. Physicist, Engineer, and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. His primary interest is joining-the-dots on Abrupt Climate System Change to determine where we are heading, and how fast, and what it all means for us and our amazing planet.
Arctic Ocean Blowtorch Attacks Sea-Ice // Published on Jan 24, 2016
Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist 