NASA SCIENTIST: ARCTIC SEA ICE COULD DISAPPEAR IN 20 YEARS
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NASA SCIENTIST: ARCTIC SEA ICE COULD DISAPPEAR IN 20 YEARS
Catastrophiccatastrophe is not imminent, it is already here. From the fossil fuel industryto the military-industrial complex, from the halls of Washington, D.C. to WallStreet, a death cult of corporate and government power brokers continues tosqueeze our dying world for greater profit and control of resources . Blockingmeaningful climate action and condemning present and future generations to ageneralized but completely avoidable dystopia.
Sincethe 19th century, primarily by burning coal, oil and gas for energy, capitalismhas already heated the planet by about 1.1 degrees Celsius, or 2 degreesFahrenheit.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even if nationsbegin to sharply cut emissions today, total global warming is likely toincrease by about 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next two decades. Whilecatastrophic climate change is already on hold, that doesn't mean ouropportunity to fight it has passed.
Alvarez sitsdown with NASA climate scientist Nathan Kurtz, who has just returned from aresearch trip from the Arctic, to discuss the scale of the disaster we face andwhat we can do about it. can do. Nathan Kurtz earned his B.S. degree inphysics from Iowa State University in 2004, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degree inAtmospheric Physics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in2007 and 2009 respectively.
He worked onsea ice thickness retrieval from the original ICESat mission during hisgraduate school studies, and has since worked on NASA's Operation IceBridgemission as well as model parameters from ESA's CryoSat-2 radar andsatellite-based observations of marine properties. has focused its work onimproving recovery satellite.