Arctic Blue Ocean Event Consequences: Air and Ocean Circulation Changes
Paul Beckwith
It
is becoming common knowledge that we are rapidly heading to complete
loss of Arctic sea-ice.
Without
a course reversal, one eventually gets where one is headed. What will
the consequences be, to the Arctic and to the rest of the planet.
Using
my three cats as willing(?) helpers, I attempt to explain how the
Beaufort Gyre and TransArctic Drift will reverse, monsoonal
torrential rains will attack permafrost on land along Arctic
coastlines, with severe increases in methane and carbon dioxide
releases from this big thaw.
Our
world will rapidly change for the worse as Arctic feedbacks
accelerate and the jet streams stall out. We will have to relearn how
to grow food in new ways and regions as existing farmland becomes
subject to droughts and/or switches to torrential rains.
Buckle
your seatbelts.
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