The left image above gives an idea of the amount of heat transported into the Arctic Ocean and as the earth get warmer more heat will be transported into the region creating a feedback loop that will accelerate the whole process so it is only going to get worst from now on and we’ll have no choice but to face the consequences.

 

On the other side of the planet a new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, has find that a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea. According to glaciologist and lead author Eric Rignot, of UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the study indicates that the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica have passed the point of no return and are already contributing significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet. These glaciers contain enough ice to raise global sea level by 4 feet (1.2 meters) and are melting faster than most scientists had expected. Rignot said that the fact that this glacier’s retreat is happening simultaneously over a large sector suggests that it was triggered by a common cause, such as an increase in the amount of ocean heat beneath the floating sections of the glaciers and at this point, the end of this sector appears to be inevitable.

 

Despite the fact that August eruptions is yet to be confirm and the news has only been broadcasted through related blogs and websites, It looks like US governments official and even the United Nations seems to know something already that has put them on alerts.  

 

On February of 2014 the British newspaper “The Guardian” reported that senior US government officials were briefed at the White House on the danger of an ice-free Arctic in the summer within two years. Among senior scientists advising the US government at the meeting there was 10 Arctic specialists, including marine scientist Prof Carlos Duarte, director of the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia. Duarte warned that the Arctic summer sea ice was melting at a rate faster than predicted by conventional climate models, and could be ice free as early as 2015, rather than toward the end of the century, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected in 2007.

 

Duarte said that the Arctic situation is snowballing and these dangerous changes from accumulated anthropogenic greenhouse gases are leading to more activities conducive to further greenhouse gas emissions, turning this situation with the momentum of a runaway train and concluded with his team that humanity is facing the first clear evidence of dangerous climate change.

 

NASA satellite imagery from March 2013 reveals massive cracks in ice connecting Beaufort Gyre region to Alaska. New research suggests that the Arctic summer sea ice loss is linked to extreme weather. Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis points to the phenomenon of "Arctic amplification", where the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the far North are altering the Jet Stream over North America, Europe, and Russia. Scientists are just beginning to understand how these profound shifts may be increasing the likelihood of more persistent and extreme weather that over the last few years, apparently driven by the accelerating Arctic melt process, include unprecedented heat waves and droughts in the US and Russia and currently in Latin-American countries such as Colombia, along with snowstorms and cold weather in northern Europe. These events have undermined harvests, dramatically impacting global food production and contributing to civil unrest. The US Homeland Security Department's Climate Change Roadmap released last year raised similar issues, warning that climate change could directly affect the Nation's critical infrastructure, as well as aggravating conditions that could enable terrorist activity, violence, and mass migration.

 

More recently, this year 2015, a work by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) determined that the planet keeps on getting warmer and setting record temperatures as climate change shows a nonstop advance. However despite this figures, what it seems most alarming to scientists is a spot in the earth where temperatures not only doesn’t increase but it actually gets lower. It is located south of Greenland, in the North Atlantic, and it could be a key aspect to measure the climate disaster.

 

This phenomenon could be related to something that could be fatal to the entire world, the thermohaline circulation paralyzation. This current is key to how the Atlantic Ocean function, therefore the planet. Due to this current the ocean is stabilized as the cold and denser water from the north sink and the warmer water from the South Seas takes its place in the surface in a continuous cycle. This readjust the salinity of the waters, the temperature and the water level in all the ocean.

 

Everything points that its deceleration is due to the thaw of the zone as this causes to have more fresh water in the sea, making the cold water from the north lighter, hindering the ocean flow as well as paralyzing the cycle. This could provoke changes in all the currents causing imminent damages in the ecosystem difficult to forecast. Some scientists had already forewarned in an article published in the scientific magazine “Nature Climate Change” of March, 2015, of a continuous increase of temperatures and the danger of this current to destabilize. According to these experts if this tendency continue it could provoke the rise of the sea in the east coast of the United States and possibly a difference in the global temperature of the North Atlantic and Europe.   

 

Already on May of 2014 a group of international climate scientists including professor Wadhams from Cambridge University called on governments to recognize that the dramatic loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic would amplify the types of extreme weather events that have already affected the world's major food basket regions, undermining global food production for the foreseeable future with serious consequences for international security. World food production can be expected to decline, with mass starvation inevitable and the price of food will rise inexorably, producing global unrest and making food security even more of an issue.

 

Furthermore on March of 2014 “The Guardian” also published a United Nations report that raised the threat of climate change to a whole new level, warning of sweeping consequences to life and livelihood. The report from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded that climate change was already having effects in real time, melting sea ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, killing off coral reefs in the oceans, and leading to heat waves, heavy rains and mega-disasters. And the worst was yet to come. The blockbuster report warned that climate change posed a threat to global food stocks, and to human security. The chairman of the IPCC Rajendra Pachauri also said that nobody on this planet was going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change and Chris Field, one of the two main authors of the report said that we were now in an era where climate change was not some kind of future hypothetical.

 

The report catalogued some of the natural disasters around the planet since 2000 such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in Australia, and deadly floods in Pakistan taking a disproportionate toll on poor, weak and elderly people. The scientists said governments did not have systems in place to protect those populations. “This would really be a severe challenge for some of the poorest communities and countries in the world,” said Maggie Opondo, a geographer from the University of Nairobi and one of the authors.

 

This report draws a clear line connecting climate change to food scarcity and conflict. It has already cut into the global food supply and global crop yields have beginning to decline, especially for wheat as well as reductions in maize, raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

 

Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton professor and an author of the report expressed that the future was looking even grimmer as Climate Change was acting as a brake when we need yields to grow to meet growing demand and other food sources were also under threat. According to the report fish catches in some areas of the tropics were projected to fall by between 40% and 60%, also connecting climate change to rising food prices and political instability such as the riots in Asia and Africa after food price shocks in 2008.

 

David Lobell, a professor at Stanford University's center for food security developed the software models that predicted that the impacts already evident in many places in the world and said that is not something that is only going to happen in the future, Lobell expressed that almost everywhere you see the warming effects having a negative effect on wheat and corn and that these were not yet enormous effects but they show clearly that the trends were big enough to be important; a specially relevant consideration now that FAO has estimated that one billion tons of cereals and 200 million tons of meat will be required to feed a world population that by 2050 will reach 9.5 billion, and in order to reach these food production levels it will be required over 450 million hectares of land (32% of the total land currently cultivated in the world) and at least fifty percent more of the water use today for agriculture in our planet. However when we consider that of total water available in our planet for humanity 70% is currently use for agriculture production, 28% is for other industries and the remaining 2% is for human consumption, where will this needed water come from?

 

The amount of fresh water on the earth has not change significantly in millions of years however the population has increased exponentially and in the last century alone the world population grew five times while the use of water grew over six times. Half of the planet population already live in urban areas and this number will increase together with the pressure to supply them with clean water while they still don’t wake up to the reality the will have to face.      

 

Under the IPCC emissions scenarios, higher temperatures are projected to affect all aspects of the hydrological cycle. More frequent and severe droughts and floods are already apparent and the twenty first century projections will make mega-droughts of the past seem like walk in the Garden of Eden. The impacts will increase as a growing population becomes more dependent upon a set of atmospheric and hydrological circulations. Climate Change will impact the extent and productivity of both irrigated and rain fed agriculture across the globe. Reductions in river runoff and aquifer recharge are expected in the Mediterranean basin and in the semi-arid areas of the Americas, Australia and southern Africa, affecting water availability in regions that are already water-stressed. In Asia, the large contiguous areas of irrigated land that rely on snowmelt and high mountain glaciers for water will be affected by changes in runoff patterns, while highly populated deltas are at risk from a combination of reduced inflows, increased salinity and rising sea levels. Everywhere, rising temperatures will translate into increased crop water demand. Both the livelihoods of rural communities and the food security of a predominantly urban population are therefore at risk from water-related impacts linked primarily to climate variability.

 

Scientists hoped to persuade governments and the public that it is past time to cut greenhouse gas emissions and we have to start planning for sea walls and other infrastructure that offer some protection against climate change. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC considers that the one message that comes out of this report is that “the world has to adapt and the world has to mitigate”.

 

Our civilization has no choice but to re-invent the way we do things and this is something that it is also happening!

 

The voices of change are no longer common citizens or idealistic young environmentalist protesting in front of hotel lobbies waiting for G8 or the United Nations’ leaders. Now important politicians and representatives from the business and financing world are the ones that have publicly and officially declare their migration to all kind of green energies initiatives. Recently Stephen Heinz, president of The Rockefeller Brother’s Foundation confirmed their decision to abandon de oil business to plunge into the so called green energies. A total paradox for a dynasty that although no longer has controls over the markets have a strong presence in petroleum multinationals that where denounced many times for environmental pollution. The initiative is part of the Global Divest-Invest, a network that started some years ago in Universities campus of the US and now has the support not only from multinationals but social movements, Hollywood stars and presidents as well.       

 

In this respect huge advances have been emerging in relation to the transportation industry. We have developed fast bullet train the uses a technology called electro hydro magnetism that allows the train to float on the rails reaching extraordinary high speeds using solar energy. The automotive industry has been making headlines with new hybrids cars the save huge on gas, and we have also developed hydrogen fuel cell engines, compress air engines and just recently the saltwater technology has now been certified for use on European roads. A 920 horsepower (680 kW) sport automobile uses something known as an electrolyte flow cell power system to power four electric motors within the car reaching 0-60 mph (100 km/h) in 2.8 seconds, making it as fast as the McLaren P1 and an impressive 217.5 mph (350 km/h) using nothing but saltwater. The potential of the NanoFlowcell is much greater, especially in terms of domestic energy supplies as well as in maritime, rail and aviation technology.