Sudden Climate Change is Happening Now

Australia is suffering from a crippling drought, and now it appears that California is also in serious trouble. Meanwhile horrendous tornadoes sweep the US midwest, followed by gigantic floods, and China and Europe experience scorching spring weather. To top it all off, the first named storm of the season has appeared off the coast of the Carolinas weeks before hurricane season even begins.

And now scientists are telling us that the poles are melting far faster than models predicted--in fact, that the north pole is at least thirty years ahead of schedule and Greenland is melting at a rate that even two years ago was completely unanticipated.

So, why are the models so far off?

The reason is that something besides pollution is at work, and it was not anticipated. Other planets in the solar system, are also showing signs of warming. The system-wide warming effect is being added to the warming that we are creating, with the result that it's all happening with blinding speed, and not only that, there's no way to tell if system-wide warming will increase, stop or even reverse, so there's no way to tell what is actually going to happen.

It is important to keep a careful watch on conditions that might result in extreme climate disruptions, and right now the continuing weakness of the Gulf Stream and the generally unsettled weather are causing us to watch even more carefully.