A climate change model has found that methane releases
from the melting Arctic could cost the world $60 trillion.
Photo credit: Brennan Linsley/AP

– “Researchers put cost at $60 trillion over 10 years, almost equal to entire world economy in 2012”
“The rapidly melting Arctic is an “economic time bomb” that will cost $60 trillion or more over the next 10 years, say a group of European economic and science researchers.

That staggering number approaches the $70 trillion value of the entire world economy in 2012, the scientists say in a comment in the journal Nature.

The researchers — Gail Whiteman, of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, Chris Hope of the Cambridge Judge Business School and Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at University of Cambridge, both in Britain — are urging creation of an economic model for the impact of climate change.

Such a model is long overdue in the absence of an effective world plan to lower greenhouse gas emissions, they argue, ” quoting the CBC.
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– “How Long Until All the Arctic Ice Is Gone?”
“A new study predicts full Arctic melt by the 2050s”
By Brooke Jarvis in Rolling Stone.
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– “North Pole Melting Leaves Small Lake At The Top Of The World”
“The North Pole probably looks a bit different than you would expect right now. Because, at this very moment, it’s actually a lake,” quoting Jake Bialer in The Huffington Post.
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– “Earth Scientists Pin Climate Change Squarely On ‘Humanity'”
By Christopher Joyce, National Public Radio.
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– “Sea Level Rise Analysis Map by Climate Central”
“Map pages show threats from sea level rise and storm surge to all 3000+ coastal towns, cities, counties and states in the Lower 48.”
Click here for the map, search by USA zip code.

– “Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming”
“An international panel of scientists has found with near certainty that human activity is the cause of most of the temperature increases of recent decades, and warns that sea levels could conceivably rise by more than three feet by the end of the century if emissions continue at a runaway pace.

The scientists, whose findings are reported in a draft summary of the next big United Nations climate report, largely dismiss a recent slowdown in the pace of warming, which is often cited by climate change doubters, attributing it most likely to short-term factors,” quoting Justin Gillis in the International Herald Tribune (IHT.com) August 21, 2013.
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– UPDATE: December 9, 2013
“You can blame the scorching summers on shrinking Arctic sea ice”
“Thirty years of shrinking Arctic sea ice has boosted extreme summer weather, including heat waves and drought, in the United States and elsewhere, according to a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The new study — based on satellite tracking of sea ice, snow cover and weather trends since 1979 — links the Arctic’s warming climate to shifting weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere’s midlatitudes,” quoting Becky Oskin, LiveScience on NBC News.
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– UPDATE: December 16, 2013
“1959 message in a bottle a clue to glacier melt”
“In 1959, an American geologist built a rock cairn 1.2 metres away from this glacier. This summer, the cairn was 101.5 metres away. The scientists who discovered the cairn say it’s unusual that a scientist in the 1950s would expect the glacier to retreat, and not advance, burying the cairn,” quoting the CBC.
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– UPDATE: March 23, 2015
“Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans — with potentially dire consequences”
By Chris Mooney, The Washington Post.
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– Ramtha’s predictions on Arctic ice melt span decades
– Ramtha on European weather changes due to rapid ice melt
– “It is no coincidence being in London in the very place that will soon be covered with ice — not a lot of ice but enough to say this is a knock on your door — that after I left [September, 2010] , scientists make this breakthrough explanation that the current belt that brings that warm water up to the Far North of Europe and to the Atlantic seaboard is less now than half of its ability.
More cold water from the melting of Greenland is sloughing off in the North Sea, and the winds from the North that are cooling down everything could stop this current conveyor belt. And do you know what happens when it stops? You have winter in the most severe ways. That is already under way.
To all of Europe — including right down to the ankle of Italy — an ice is coming, a warning is coming. That nasty little environment will start to show itself only slightly this winter, so look for strange ice storms in Europe and the American north, and even look for them around the equator.
So what we have is an introduction to the violence of nature, a calling card. 2011 will be all about calling cards all over the world.”
– Ramtha, Afternoon Live Stream from Yelm
October 9, 2010

– Ramtha in 2006 on upper Atlantic issues
“Now your world is in trouble. Your icecaps are melting. The North Pole’s icecaps are melting and when all that cold water enters Greenland in the upper Atlantic, the flow of warm water will cease in Atlatia and in a short time you are going to have catastrophic conditions in the world.”
– Ramtha
November 20, 2006.
Excerpt from: Ramtha in Mexico

– Ramtha said 25 years ago warming occurring faster than scientists say
“The melting of the polar caps, the hole in the stratum, and the warming up in the next four years will be much quicker than your scientists will tell you. The melting of the great caps of snow is already occurring, which will raise the water level to two hundred feet.”
– Ramtha
November 14, 1987.
Excerpt from: Ramtha, Update on Changes — Seattle,
and Ramtha, Last Waltz of the Tyrants. The Prophecy Revisited. J
ZK Publishing, 2009.