Climate Scientist Thinks Planet May Have Already Hit Tipping Point On Climate Change

A climate scientist that has spent years studying arctic sea ice is concerned that the planet might have already hit, or be on the very precipice, of the "tipping point" regarding climate change. Markus Rex is warning that the disappearance of summer sea ice in the arctic was one of the first landmines we'd experience from climate change, and we're already seeing that today. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Recently an atmospheric scientist that led a year long expedition in the Arctic to study

Sea ice melt came out with a fairly, uh, ominous warning saying that he can't say for certain whether the United

Or not United States, excuse me, whether the planet has actually already hit

The tipping point on climate change.

The atmospheric scientists, man, by the name of Marcus Rex. And he says that he still thinks

We have time. But if

We do have time, he says, if

It's shrinking,

Just like the Arctic sea ice, which he has been studying for a year in the Arctic, what they found with the Arctic sea ice is that the summer sea ice is melting more and more and more each year, and eventually could disappear altogether if summer sea ice in the Arctic disappears. That is major bad news for the climate. That means as, uh, Marcus req says, that's the first landmine. Really? Once we see that happening, we know we have hit the tipping point and there's no going back to what

Once was.

He says right now, Arctic sea ice is about half of what it was 10 years ago,

Half as thick, half as much. It's just not there anymore.

So every winter you have less and less that freezes with it. And every summer you have more and more than melts away. And yes, that does contribute to sea level rise. Although not as much as you know, you've seen in movies by any stretch of the imagination, but it does really reduce valuable habitat for endangered species. It increases emissions trapped in the sea. Ice overall has a major negative impact

On the climate, but we have to take the hope. We have

To take the hope part of the message that we may still have time. Let's not forget folks. It was in 20 18, 20 18.

When that story came out, that said, we got 12 years till 2032, we pretty much

Hit the point of no return on climate change. And at the time we had 12 years, three years of tick by three years. Last year reports showed that even with the pandemic global CO2 levels actually increased.

So even

The pandemic didn't stop our emissions.

We have to

Get serious about this because yes, we do have time. But I think at this point, and I think a lot of scientists at this point think that 2030 is being a little too generous. If we do not stop this, if we cannot reverse it, now we may run out of time. And then we're dealing with a whole new threat

Of climate change, not just the extreme weather events, but

As Al gore correctly pointed out in an inconvenient truth all the way back in 2006,

The migrants, the

Fights over resources, things like that. The things that people aren't even thinking about when they think of climate change, you know, the global threat

That emerges

As a result of people fighting over resources, which is what has fueled most conflicts throughout the course of human history. And we could be barreling head first into that because we're not reducing our emissions.

It's a pretty

Selfish way for humanity to end, but it doesn't have to end that way. We have time. We can reverse it, but the clock is ticking and it's getting a lot faster each year that passes.