4 thoughts on “Jason Box on Zombie Ice – New Interview”
Underscores the need for urgent emergency short-term ‘triage’ intervention #CoolTheArctic (like CPR and tourniquet) to save the ice and restore jetstream & polar vortex normal behavior in addition to #RemoveCO2 & #RemoveCH4 to achieve global cooling and forestall tipping points while we decarbonize. Decarbonization does nothing to address the trillion tons of legacy GHG that drives the melting ice everywhere.
AFAICT, the most plausible mechanism for any appreciable cooling of the Arctic is nuclear winter (not kidding). It definitely seems more likely than that we’ll get an exceptional string of Mt. Pinatubo events.
Underscores the need for urgent emergency short-term ‘triage’ intervention #CoolTheArctic (like CPR and tourniquet) to save the ice and restore jetstream & polar vortex normal behavior in addition to #RemoveCO2 & #RemoveCH4 to achieve global cooling and forestall tipping points while we decarbonize. Decarbonization does nothing to address the trillion tons of legacy GHG that drives the melting ice everywhere.
The major problem with the Arctic compared to the Antarctic is that heat is transferred via ocean ocean currents from the ever-warming Atlantic.
https://www.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/graphics-To_IMS-ArcticCurrentsMap.jpg
AFAICT, the most plausible mechanism for any appreciable cooling of the Arctic is nuclear winter (not kidding). It definitely seems more likely than that we’ll get an exceptional string of Mt. Pinatubo events.
I suppose a complete collapse of the North Atlantic Current might help, but we’d be screwed by then anyway.
For reference, from the last IPCC reports:
https://www.realclimate.org/images//IPCC-AR6-sea-level-2100.png