Just How Bad is the Climate Situation (and do we really want to know)?

Opening Song: "Dance Band on the Titanic" by Harry Chapin  http://www.allmusic.com/album/dance-band-on-the-titanic-mw0000318413

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkSRF-uHlWk

Paul Beckwith is a Physicist, Engineer, and now a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. He is in a Ph.D. program, with a focus on Abrupt Climate System Change (atmosphere, oceans, Arctic, methane…). He has earned a Masters in Science (M.Sc.) in Laser Optics/Physics. He also earned his undergraduate, with a Bachelors of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Engineering Physics. https://paulbeckwith.net/

Important article (not by Beckwith but will be discussed on program) about new study on the acceleration of subsea permafrost melting, leading to increased methane releases:

http://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline

Other recommended articles:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-permian-mass-extinction-apocalypse-warning-climate-change-frozen-methane-a7648006.html

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40650-scientists-predict-there-will-be-no-glaciers-in-the-contiguous-us-by-2050-but-trump-is-stomping-on-the-gas-pedal

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/30/its-the-end-of-the-world-and-we-know-it-scientists-in-many-disciplines-see-apocalypse-soon/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/19/early-stage-antarctica-death-rattle-sparks-ny-times-journalists-trip/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38885-we-have-released-a-monster-previously-frozen-soil-is-breathing-out-greenhouse-gases

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815/