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A top climate group is pressuring President Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill to make good on their biggest environmental promises or suffer irreversible damage to the planet.
In a new digital ad, first obtained by The Hill, progressive organization Evergreen Action is calling for Senate Democrats to pass the climate-related portions of "Build Back Better" (BBB) in order to address an existential global crisis.
Organizers are making the case that "our time is up."
"Democrats spent the last year talking about climate action," begins the ad, titled, "Democrats Have A Choice." It pans to footage of Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), using their own words pledging to attack the problem. thehill.com/...
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From Climate Brief :
Antarctica's Larsen B sea ice embayment has disintegrated. Land ice will empty soon.
Feb 04, 2022 5:33am Eastern Standard Time by Pakalolo
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Sea ice attached to the Antarctic Penninsula’s Larsen B embayment shattered and disintegrated sometime between January 16 and the 21st. The vast expanse of sea ice had formed in 2011 when it fastened itself to the coastline after the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. Once the sea ice crumbled, it took a large chunk of the Scar Inlet ice shelf with it.
Nasa’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, a key instrument on the Terra and Aqua satellites, detected the phenomenon in the photos above.
Scientists are still investigating the reason for the breakup, but the early clearing of seasonal sea ice along the Antarctic Peninsula suggests that the austral summer has been warm and wet. Scientist Rajashree Tri Datta of University of Colorado, Boulder, noted that foehn winds, influenced by a large atmospheric river, helped destabilize the ice pack. The phenomenon is apparent in this animation composed with images from NOAA’s GEOS-16 satellite.
The breakup is the latest in a series of notable events in the Larsen B embayment over the past 20 years. Prior to 2002, glacial ice on the Antarctic Peninsula flowed toward the sea and fed into a vast floating ice shelf known as Larsen B. The shelf helped buttress inland tributary glaciers, pushing back against them and slowing their seaward flow. But in early 2002, the shelf abruptly fractured. With 3,250 square kilometers (1,250 square miles) of ice suddenly gone, glaciers thinned and flowed more quickly into the open water.
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