Daniel Bailey

Some non-climate fun: the Bifröst is open at the moment.

The window tonight may be short.

Some non-climate fun: the Bifröst is open at the moment.

Prescient foreshadowing, "Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived its time had now come."

Thus, current events in the US can similarly be interpreted as a campaign of subjugation and power meant to do away with sovereignty/free will and to create one centralized power that rules/dominates over everything and everyone.

Prescient foreshadowing, "Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived its time had now come."

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Humans are causing all of the recent observed warming and offsetting the ongoing natural cooling of Earth’s surface at the same time. This recent observed warming is unprecedented over at least the past 100,000 years.

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Nature can cause climate change but so do humans; right now, the human causes are happening much faster and are far stronger than natural causes. Humans have effectively wrapped a thin, silver space blanket around the planet and it warms accordingly.

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Channeling Galadriel again, the end began with very slow, minute changes in Earth’s orbit. More sunlight reached the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, warming it, releasing CO2, which further warmed the Earth and melted land-based ice in the Northern Hemisphere, driving yet more warming.

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Other areas across the globe also saw much land exposed. Given the generally warmer nature of lowlands nearer the ocean than their higher ground neighbors, these lowlands would have been prime areas for flora and fauna to thrive.

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Vast areas of land were exposed, due to global sea levels being some 400' lower than they are at present. Land bridges connected many disparate areas, allowing many species including humans to better disperse across the globe. For example, near present-day Australia:

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

Much that once was is now lost… (between 17 and 22 million square kilometers of coastal plains were inundated)

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

I feel it in the Earth (forests grew where kilometers-thick ice once stood)

I've always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, interspersed with topical humor to drive points home. When I was with NASA I explored this in many of my internal educational presentations. The world that was, the world that is now and the world may yet come to pass:

To set the stage, most of you are familiar with Galadriel's voiceover, to start the 1st Lord of the Rings movie:

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers:

Sea level rise from the past 20,000 years to present, from Steve Railsback's Fundamentals of Quaternary Science, with the SLR curve from Shakun 2015 added in to show the multi-millennial lag of sea level rise to global warming that occurred then:

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers:

And the current sources of observed present sea level rise, from Frederikse et al 2020/NASA (data 1993-2018):

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers:

Sea level rise from the past 20,000 years to present, from Steve Railsback's Fundamentals of Quaternary Science, with the SLR curve from Shakun 2015 added in to show the multi-millennial lag of sea level rise to global warming that occurred then:

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers:

And the current sources of observed present sea level rise, from Frederikse et al 2020/NASA (data 1993-2018):

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers:

Not exactly in imperial units, no (and as an Imperial Droid, I know Imperial things), the vertical unit of scale used:

Scientists understand that the global response of land-based ice to global warming takes time, such that the sea level rise response of that land-based ice continues for millennia after the warming that drove it stops. Future SLR scenarios, from the recent IPCC AR6, by the (boring) numbers: