Video, Supporting Articles: Arctic Ocean Warming, Losing Ice (Addendum)

On 30 April 2021, I posted the most important information so far in this space. The blog post, with video and supporting evidence, was titled, “Video, Supporting Articles: Arctic Ocean Warming, Losing Ice.” As usual, the situation is worse than I believed last month.

The final two sentences of the fourth paragraph of the Introduction of the peer-reviewed paper I cited in the 30 April 2021 blog post follows: “Observations show that the heat content of the sub-surface PSW [Pacific Summer Water] within the BG [Beaufort Gyre] has nearly doubled over the last 30 years. If all this heat were turbulently mixed upwards, it could melt more than a meter of sea ice.”

Gary Geiser, an online acquaintance who taught philosophy at an Asian university for 15 years, pointed out that my conclusion regarding loss of habitat for human animals as early as 2023 was conservative, based on evidence he provided. Big thanks to Gary. I include the additional information below, which comes from an article in the peer-reviewed literature I had not previously seen.

The peer-reviewed paper “Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: losses and coupled variability (1958–2018)” was published in Environmental Research Letters on 12 October 2018. This paper concluded that the average thickness of the Arctic ice near the end of the melt season had decreased by 2 meters over 6 decades, with the mean ice thickness close to 2 meters during the winter (February–March).

These two studies suggest that if the average thickness of the Arctic ice is reduced to 1 meter or less during the North American summer this year (2021), then a “blue-ocean event” could occur at the end of this year’s melt season (approximately 21 September 2021). As a result, the consequences I indicated likely to happen during 2023, including loss of habitat for human animals, might occur during 2022. Either way, I predict that the “survivors” beyond 2023–in bunkers or similar structures–will be dead via murder or suicide by 2026. Loss of Arctic sea ice is one of several means by which habitat for human animals could be lost quickly, as I pointed out in my recent peer-reviewed paper, “Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens” (published 1 April 2021 in Academia Letters).

Again, it brings me no joy to collate, summarize, and report this dire information. However, not reporting this information would place me in the same category currently occupied by government employees, corporate media outlets, and paid climate scientists: malpractice.

In light of the dire, short future we face, my recommendations remain the same:

I am asked nearly every day for advice about living. I recommend living where you feel most alive and, simultaneously, where you feel most useful. I recommend living fully. I recommend living with intention. I recommend living urgently, with death in mind. I recommend the pursuit of excellence. I recommend the pursuit of love.

In light of the short time remaining in your life, and my own, I recommend all of the above, louder than before. More fully than you can imagine. To the limits of this restrictive culture, and beyond.

For you. For me. For us. For here. For now.

Live large. Be you, and bolder than you’ve ever been. Live as though you’re dying. The day draws near.