There is a growing likely hood of a Blue Ocean Event this September in the Arctic.
The myriad consequences include the methane clathrate discharges predicted by Natalia Shakova and Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Paul Beckwith from the University of Ottawa who blogs at PaulBeckwith.net and Professor Guy McPherson , GuyMcPherson.com from the University of Arizona who will be touring NZ with me in November 2016 and the stalling of the AMOC, commonly referred to as the Gulf Stream.
A little discussed consequence of such an event as the Gulf Stream stalling or stopping and the attendant climatic chaos that would unfold, as was predicted by Professsor James E Hansen, is the dawning on the global populace that we have irretrievably destabilised the planetary eco-system much sooner than previously expected.
The consequences of this could easily be the collapse of industrial civilisation and the outbreak of my long predicted Habitat Wars as the psychopaths who own us fight over the last remaining habitat.
Watch out NZ, the cross hairs will be on us.Especially with the eco-terrorist John Key at the helm of our sinking ship
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35975-arctic-sea-ice-could-disappear-this-summer
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
Blog post from the ever reliable Sam Carana;
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/05/arctic-sea-ice-gone-by-september-2016.html
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Robertscribbler in a prose definitely showing a degree of urgency documents the collapse of the sea ice.
September is feeling like a very long, very hot time away.
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/05/13/polar-heatwave-digs-in-as-arctic-sea-ice-crashes-blue-ocean-event-looking-more-and-more-likely/
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More from Sam Carana.
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Look at that river of COLD pouring off of Greenland! It’s taken aim at the Gulf stream. There is way too much “hot” ocean in view here as well, not good for cold water fish like Salmon & Cod.
I wonder what it looks like now? Time to check. It looks very different today, now there is a ‘hot dam’ between Greenland & NE Canada & a massive blob of cold water to the SE that reaches from the UK down to the level of Cuba. The cold water flowing off of Greenland is probably flowing under the Gulf stream.
It looks “hot” off the NW Alaskan coast & along the Aleutian islands, not good news for sea life that likes it cool.
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Greenland Ice Melt update —
Greenland is melting. 2016 is already off the charts for Greenland ice melt. Very good article.
“The graph above tells the tale: a spike in melting far in excess of the average melt percentage for this time of year, following on from two earlier spikes in May and April.
It has already been an extraordinary melt season in Greenland — one that began very early. The first spike evident in the graph above came so early in the year that it prompted a Danish climate scientist to say that she and her colleagues were “incredulous.”
The second spike was even bigger, prompting Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center to say that “the Arctic is going to go through hell this year.”
Now, we’ve got a third melting spike that blows the others right out of the water.
Overall, what’s happening in Greenland looks very similar to what occurred in 2012, when surface melting during the warm season was far in excess of any earlier year in the satellite record, which dates to 1979.’
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/06/12/surface-melting-of-snow-and-ice-in-greenland-explodes/#.V1-KGPkrI2x
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Harold H Hensel
“I have complained that NASA should take a plane, fly under the clouds and make images. Here is an image where they did just that. “Chunks of sea ice, melt ponds and open water are all seen in this image captured at an altitude of 1,500 feet by the NASA’s Digital Mapping System instrument during an Operation IceBridge flight over the Chukchi Sea on Saturday, July 16, 2016. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Operation IceBridge.”
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2465/2016-climate-trends-continue-to-break-records/
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“How intense is methane as a heater of the atmosphere compared with carbon dioxide?
It is 23 times more powerful. However, methane dissipates much more quickly than carbon dioxide. It gets oxidised so that it only lingers in the atmosphere for about seven or eight years. By contrast, carbon dioxide hangs around in the climate system for about 100 years before it ends up in the sea and is absorbed by creatures that die and litter the seabed. At least that is what scientists thought. Today, there are quite a number of researchers who think carbon dioxide could last 1,000 years in the atmosphere.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/21/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year
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