- By Susanne Posel – February 28, 2015
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US IndependentFebruary 28, 2015
Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh captured “slow-moving waves of slush” made up of the Atlantic Ocean and took pictures that has gone viral on the internet and baffled some experts.
Nimerfroh told reporters: “I just noticed a really bizarre horizon. The snow was up to my knees, getting to the water. I saw these crazy half-frozen waves. Usually on a summer day you can hear the waves crashing, but it was absolutely silent. It was like I had earplugs in my ears.”
The photographer recalled: “The wind was howling from the southwest which would typically make rough or choppy conditions not so good for surfing, but since the surface of the sea was frozen slush the wind did not change the shape. What resulted was perfect, dreamy, slush waves.”
This area is no stranger to freezing over at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit due to the high salt content of the seas. In this case, the Atlantic Ocean became a metaphorical “slurpee”.
The story of New England’s slurpee ocean sparked questions about whether or not the planet’s weather is displaying warning signs of another mini-Ice Age.
Back in 2004, NASA published a report on the possibility of global warming being the catalyst for “plunging North America and Western Europe into a deep freeze, possibly within only a few decades” although the agency admits that “it’s difficult to predict what will happen.”
This prospect was of concern to the Pentagon. Andrew Marshall, planner for the Department of Defense (DoD), “released an unclassified report detailing how a shift in ocean currents in the near future could compromise national security.”
A decade later, the Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board (CNA-MAB) released a report co-authored by several retired generals concerning the “national security” threat climate change is to the environment.
Authors of the study assert “the biggest change in the seven years between the two studies was the increase in scientific certainty about global warming, and of the link between global warming and security disruptions.”
Climate change, according to this document, becomes a “threat multiplier” which could “enhance or contribute to already existing causes of global disruption.”
Retired Air Force General Charles Wald said : “In the past, the thinking was that climate change multiplied the significance of a situation. Now we’re saying it’s going to be a direct cause of instability.”
The report states: “Climate change can act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world, and it presents significant national security challenges for the United States. [Problems will be felt] even in stable regions.”
Authors of the report claim that the US military “should plan to help manage catastrophes and conflicts both domestically and internationally, raising concerns regarding a wave of refugees fleeing rising sea levels. These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad, such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence.”
The CNA-MAB asserts that US lawmakers must respond because “the increasing risks from climate change … will almost certainly get worse if we delay.”
A big concern to the authors was the “rising sea levels [that] are “putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.”
Last year, John Kerry, secretary of State, put out a call for all nations to ramp up their efforts against climate change.
As Kerry described it, climate change is “world’s largest weapon of mass destruction.”
Because this problem is global, Kerry decried that all government heads come together their multi-stakeholders and corporations to create encompassing energy policies.
Kerry said: “We all have to approach this challenge together,” he insisted, adding that “in a sense climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even the world’s most fearsome weapon. But while industrialized countries bore a huge responsibility, that didn’t mean other nations get a free pass.”
At the talk, Kerry pointed out that Indonesia is under immediate threat as “warming sea temperatures could deal a severe blow to Indonesia’s fishing industry, while powerful storms could buffet the country and rising seas put much of Jakarta, the capital, under water.”
To show his commitment, Kerry is pursuing a position as lead broker of a 2015 UN treaty on the world’s economies with regard to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and establishing a global energy economy.
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