Climate Change is More Undeniable than Ever Before

Perhaps you are old enough to recall the multi-million dollar ad campaign by a major oil company that spanned decades, where they paid to have their own editorials appear on the pages of major newspapers. 

   Of course denial of the reality of global warming and man-made climate change was part of their propaganda.

   It turns out that the oil and gas industry's own private research that had been with kept close to their proverbial vests revealed industry caused climate change all along. So the cars got bigger and bigger and bigger. And as fuel efficiency increased the tanks got bigger and the vehicles grew larger and heavier, hence mpgs hadn't changed much in thirty plus years.

   And here we are. 

   Not coincidence of course. It could have easily all been hybrid engines by 15 years ago, making deep cuts in gasoline consumption, right? But...

   No. This insidious oil and gas lobby could give two shits about the future if humanity. It is an old story about unbridled greed. The same greed that drove slavery. The same greed that drove monoculture agriculture industries in Latin America, raping the land and starving the people. 

   It's about the greed that an elite relative few beneficiaries living in the moment perpetuate at the expense of the majority.

   But shits getting realer everyday. Climate change is harder and harder to deny and the world's largest glacier? It is not just that Thwaites glacier is melting. It's breaking up! 

   Melting is not the entirety of the looming disaster that is the world's largest glacier, located in Antartica, Thwaites. Remember, Antartica is a continent, a land mass. The glacier atop this land mass thst is retreating into the ocean is deadly serious. 

   Let's look at in simple terms. If ice is 100% on the ground, a land mass, then its melting is not immediately going to cause a rise in the ocean level. But what happens when said glacier is breaking off from a land mass and dumping into the sea?   

   Here we are at Thwaites:  The glacier is retreating into the ocean. Try adding ice to a bathtub full of water. Frozen or melted, the water rises. As Antartica's glaciers break apart and enter the water that surrounds it, it directly contributes to sea-level rise. This known as displacement, right? You can do the exoeriment yourself with a glass of water. Pop a few ice cubes into the water and see if it rises. Obviously it does.

   That's our world now. Our coastlines. So now Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf is nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of the above-described crazy-ass ice-melt and inevitable increasing rise in sea level. In a recent news article, scientist Britney Schmidt of Cornell University described what they were able to observe using specially designed robots. 

   "Where it’s melting so quickly there, there’s just material streaming out of the glacier."

   This is the climate reality we are living in...coastal flooding will soon be an understatement and changes to the global map are imminent.

   But to those in positions of power within the oil and gas industry, top investors, and their enabling politicians, like Michael Corleone in the Godfather stated: “It's not personal. It's just business.”