GLOBAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS in 2020 (Part 3):
LUIZ ANTONIO GOMES, MSc, MBA
MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIST, CONSULTANT & GLOBAL DIRECTOR at AFI GLOBAL MARINE
Continuation of Part 2 of some HIGHLIGHTS of the Reports "STATE OF GLOBAL CLIMATE 2020" + "CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT 2020" + "ARCTIC REPORT CARD 2020" + OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
SERIOUS QUESTIONS (these initial paragraphs are being repeated due to their fundamental importance): Can't true world leaders, decision-makers, influencers, celebrities (who usually surge up to gain multiples from free global publicity), top CEOs & intellectuals, and alike powerful figures actually, realize for the benefit of Human civilization the dangerous significance of what WE are going thru while reading the factual information below and of where we are heading to? Can't they sincerely apprehend the legacy for the goodness of Human Beings (real debt) that they are going to leave for their siblings (sons and grandsons) w/ the conditioned heartless make-money-only & business-as-usual behavior and outlook? Can't they foresee the food shortages & insecurity, mass migrations/displacements, large-scale evacuations, death tolls, sanitary degradation, vandalism, terrorism, etc that these severe Climate Changes will cause and affect every single person (including the vast majority of the very rich; pls read at the bottom of the article) even in the areas not directly hit by these catastrophes?
... Can't they genuinely grasp the fact that our Earth's climate (and its unprecedented extreme rapid changes) is going, ever faster, down the hill and that WE are in a quasi-inevitable collision course? What is the real meaning of reasoning and intelligence for the 99.99 percenters? Haven't we vastly evolved from the primates and from the gatherers & hunters from 10,000 years ago and think, plan and act wisely? WE MUST ACT RESOLUTELY, BOLDLY and QUICKLY, RIGHT NOW, NOT UNLIKE most did in 2020 with the Covid-19 Pandemic.
....WE MUST BE ALARMINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR FUTURE and OUR LIVES. Follow Part 3 of "more highlights of Earth's climate changes in 2020":
21) South America endured extremely strong droughts w/ the worst regions being Paraguay, N. Argentina & W. Brazil. Before unthinkable, exceptional wildfires hit Brazil mainly in the western regions like the "Pantanal" wetland;
22) The U.S. grieved the largest fires ever recorded, including vast regions of droughts and exceptional heat;
23) Eastern Mediterranean sites faced all-time record temperature hights. Europe was affected by heatwaves as well, but not too bad as it did in 2019 (w/c does not diminish the degree of devastation and effect on the population and natural environments, especially when we take into account the current "La Nina" that helps cooling down Earth);
24) Australia and the Caribbean experienced heatwaves records. Some countries in the Middle East, like Kuwait & Iraq, bear up to 52deg C (an unthought-of record);
25) Adding drastic climate changes to the Covid-19 outbreak to the already "challenged peoples", the number of the world's population suffering reached an estimated 700 million or around 10% of the Planet's Human Beings, w/ about 750 million having to survive food insecurity. According to the FAO, approximately 135 million Humans lived under famine, emergency, severe poverty and overall surviving crisis. These, NOT accounting for the utmost loss rate of animal and plant life;
26) Furthering degradation measurement of environmental shocks: sand & dust storms, peatland & forest wildfires, general on-land deterioration, air pollution, desertification, far-reaching droughts, Ocean sea level rise + acidification + diminished levels of dissolved oxygen, mangrove degeneration & decline, coral reef bleaching and so on... all of them intensified;
27) There was significant evidence that there were changes in two of the most important factors that affect the climate on Earth (especially in the European continent and contiguous regions), the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC, main Ocean current that circulates especially in N. Atlantic and pushes around most of the globe's Ocean circulation/major water movements, weakened 25 to 30% since 1980; if it eventually stops, we are doomed) as well as significant slowdown in the Jet Streams (especially in the Northern Hemisphere), the atmospheric topmost usually-fast air circulation that significantly affects the climate down below our usually viewed (accompanied and daily spoken of in the News media) atmospheric weather, (making the down-Earth weather more stalled/fixed in-place) and also became wavier (meaning that the arm of the Jet Stream circulating around the Arctic region stretches down the middle and lower latitudes bringing extremely low temperatures within it while warm-hot temps outside its wave's crest/trough);
28) The Arctic region is warming 3 times faster than the rest of the globe and the higher Arctic territory 8 to 10 times even faster;
29) Boreal forests and Tundra are undergoing the most dramatic climate changes on Earth;
30) According to the United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC): "Climate emergency continues: ....never has the gap between climate reality and action been wider. And never has the divide between the global negotiations and demands of society been deeper"...
These were all happening in parallel, worldwide in nature/over the environment, with our weather, while we were hiding from/eagerly following the daily News on Covid-19 and the listed above-unprecedented climate changes were unfolding in front of us without being duly publicized/broadcasted. Meanwhile here am I putting the effort in consolidating these dramatic and life-challenging information for the future of Human civilization survival (much more dangerous in the long run than the C-19) and nobody cares even to read it. acknowledges and even thanks for it!.... So, if you are a real-grounded, rational, independent thinker, would better become keenly aware, conscious, and make an effort to join the fight against these altogether unprecedented quick-and-widespread climate changes while there is still a mere time left...
NO WONDER, seemingly unpretending very wealthy individuals/companies are rushing to invest in outer space flight aircrafts to "be able to abandon Earth" in the due time if necessary (read Zacharia Sitchin's book-series Earth Chronicles), like Elon Musk's Space X (Tesla), Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin (Amazon), Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic (Virgin Atlantic etc), Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace, Alan Bond's Reaction Engines, Boeing's CST-100, McDonnell Douglas's DC-X, Lockheed Martin's X-33, Northrop Gruman's Cygnus, ARCA Space group and Google's Larry Page (initially w/ Lunar Xprize Moon Express) as well as Google's Eric Schmidt, Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) and others. Are they aware of something that we don't? Meanwhile, 99.99% of Human Beings are minding their own lives awares...Such is life!
Expect my upcoming article: "What is the relationship of Elon Musk's Space X (present), Adam & Eve (past) & the 12th Planet (Zacharia Sitchin) and Humanity (future)"....