Global Climate Change Emergency Hot Spots
Real world evidence of the planetary emergency​
1. Arctic warming rate increasing (amplification)
​2. Arctic summer sea ice

2007 tipping point
Rapid reduction in thickness
Extent loss and thinning ​(darker) less albedo reflective cooling and- faster Arctic warming (amplification
3. ​Snow spring retreating  faster Loss albedo​
4. ​Greenland ice sheet surface expanse melt increasing
Albedo loss
5. Methane leaking through sea ice cracks ? from warmer water increasing ​microbial production.
6. Methane seeping from edges of glaciers and permafrost​.
7. ​Methane venting from sea floor East Siberian Arctic shelf.
8. Sea floor methane hydrate
'melting' releasing methane to almost to water surface​ 
​​9. ​Wetlands warming emitting more methane
10. ​Thawing permafrost emitting methane
11. Thawing permafrost emitting nitrous oxide​
12. Arctic atmospheric methane ​increasing to extreme
13. ​Greenland glacier melt accelerating
14. Large increase methane emissions from warming tropical wetlands
15. ​Methane emissions increasing from global water bodies
16. UK Soil CO2 emissions ​increasing with warming




Atmospheric GHGs

​Atmospheric CO2
still accelerating 40% increase since industrialization
​Highest in 5 million years

Atmospheric methane accelerating since 2000 due to gas fracking and methane feedback emissions from the warming planet (Arctic and tropical peat rich wetlands)

Atmospheric nitrous oxide steadily  increasing fast.
Increased 20% since industrialization (past 100 years) ​Now main cause of stratospheric ozone ​depletion. 

17. Forest fires increasing
18. W Europe severe heat wave and drought​ 2003
​19. Severe Amazon drought 2005,2010​ Amazon net carbon source 2017
20. US hurricane Katrina​ 2005
21. ​Texas record drought 2008-9
22.​ Australia 2009 worst wildfires on record
23. Russia 2010 widespread wild fires ​crop destruction
24. Pakistan 2010 worst ever floods​
25. SW. China 3 yr drought to 2012.
26. ​​N. India 2010 record heat
27. US grain belt near record heat/ drought
28 US super storm Sandy​​
29 Himalayas ​acceleration ice loss past 40 years

All this is being caused by today's global warming of about 1C.

We already are committed (locked in) to a warming much higher ​due to climate system inertia!