How is this for a 2015 message? All human species in the Northern Hemisphere to be destroyed by 2030 !! Administrator McCarthy, January 3rd, 2015 I note in the first sentence of the EPA mission statement that the EPAs purpose is to ensure that all Americans are lprotected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and workand that national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information. I also notr inthe mission statement that theUnited States plays a leadership role in working with other nations to protect the global environment. In this regard I have been alarmed to learn of the potential danger to world life by the increasing rate of rise in oceanic methane due to ocean temperature rises. (See posts below) Note especially the forecast that the human species could well be destroyed in the Northern Hemisphere by 2030, and by 2050 in the Southern Hemisphere. Note also by September 2015 catastrophic climate changes will begin to accelerate possobly leading to a Blue Water Event. Especially alarming is the statement that in spite of the warnings from experts at the recent December Lima Peru conference,governments are doing nothing to prevent this. Where is the touted U.S.leadership role in this emergency situation as noted in your mission statement? Sincerely, H.D. Ross EPAs purpose is to ensure that: •all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work; •national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information; •federal laws protecting human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively; •environmental protection is an integral consideration in U.S. policies concerning natural resources, human health, economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, and international trade, and these factors are similarly considered in establishing environmental policy; •all parts of society -- communities, individuals, businesses, and state, local and tribal governments -- have access to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks; •environmental protection contributes to making our communities and ecosystems diverse, sustainable and economically productive; and •the United States plays a leadership role in working with other nations to protect the global environment geoengineeringwatch.org/year-2014-pictures-dire-situation geoengineeringwatch.org/year-2014-pictures-dire-situation/ The US science magazine Scientific American stated that the IPCC has understated the rate and intensity of climate change for over two decades. The Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) composed of leading world climate and arctic ice experts, agrees and insists that the IPCC depends too much on climate models that are increasingly divorced from observable facts. On December 4th, 2014, AMEG, led by Dr. John Nissen, called a press conference in Lima, and stated that the rapid Arctic ice meltdown is a catastrophic threat to our survival and urged action be taken to refreeze the Arctic failing which there will be a “blue ocean event” meaning that by September 2015 the Arctic Ocean will be open water for the first time and that quickly thereafter catastrophic climate changes will begin to accelerate, including the loss of the Greenland ice sheet resulting in fast rising sea levels and the severe disruption of the jet stream which will cause and is causing abrupt and disastrous climate change in the Northern Hemisphere. The AMEG group is alarmed by the quickly escalating emissions of methane from the Arctic Ocean seabed, as well as permafrost and tundra in a feedback loop that could raise temperatures very quickly to levels that make human life on the planet unsustainable. Indeed, they cite the work of Russian scientists Shakova and Semelitov to support their statement that a 50 gigaton burst of methane “is possible at any time” resulting in a temperature rise of 5 to 8 degrees or more in less than a decade which would lead to the extinction of life on earth. Doctors Peter Waddams, John Nissen and Paul Beckwith stated that such a methane release is a “time bomb” that puts us into a planetary emergency and called for immediate measures to be taken to cool the planet, remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and to stop the acidification of the oceans that, in the last ten years, has wiped out 40% of the phytoplankton, the base of the ocean food chain. Dr. Guy McPherson, of the University of Arizona, another leading climatologist, believes that it is already too late to stop the exponential actions of the at least 40 feedback mechanisms that have already begun to operate causing a rapid rise in temperatures and extreme climate change, mechanisms which he states are now unstoppable no matter what we do. Based on all the data currently available, he and others think that the present trend will lead to conditions in which mankind’s very life resources, food, water and habitable zones will be so degraded in the next 15 years that the human species will be destroyed by 2030 in the northern hemisphere and by 2050 in the southern hemisphere, give or take a decade or so. The AMEG group while agreeing that this is the likely outcome if nothing is done, believes that geo-engineering can be used to cool the planet, one method proposed being the spraying of salt crystals into the atmosphere from 200 ships in the Atlantic Ocean which would have the effect of cooling the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream which is pushing heated water into the Arctic Ocean. A frustrated Dr. Nissen said, “governments are doing nothing” as we see the effects of abrupt climate change causing crop failures, rising food prices and civil unrest in region after region. He stated that unless something is done to stop a blue ocean event from happening, “all hell will break loose.” Yet what do we see being done by governments? Nothing. The participants at the UN conference in Peru discuss minor cuts to emissions by countries that may or may not act on their promises and talk of these minor cuts being achieved at a point in time at which scientists are telling us we won’t be here. It’s as bizarre as it can get. All the other world problems pale in comparison with what mankind is facing yet not one world leader has stood up and called for action. It is left to second and third tier officials to waste time in bargaining over carbon tariffs which Dr. Nissen compared to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. AMEG called for the leaders of the major industrial powers, China, Russia, America and the EU to immediately form an international emergency task force, set up on a war footing, to put into effect the measures they propose to cool the planet and encouraged all citizens of the world and non governmental groups to heed the alarm and make the the public aware of the danger we all face and to demand that immediate and effective action be taken or we are all destroyed, not in some distant future, but within the lifetime of this generation. First appeared: journal-neo.org/2014/12/15/climate-change-a-planetary-emergency/ US Environmental Protection Agency Contact Us •You are here: EPA Home •Thank you for your comments Thank you for your comments We have received your comments, questions or suggestions, and will be forwarding them as quickly as possible to the appropriate group.
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