Wow, this is amazing and no doubt fits into the whole topic here of "Earth and Climate Change...and Consequences" pattern in a rather speeded up way! And actually you could just place this there under that topic title if you wanted to. Surely a very interesting consequence of some kind!
Makes me wonder what else is happening underneath it all, literally and figuratively. Any feeling or info on whether it's part of changing climate pattern or man's direct interference in that specific area...imagining things like power plant or massive manufacturing plants dumping heated by products into ocean kind of thing, or even underwater volcano if that's possible.
Across from you in SE Alaska this season our water was low 40s f.
Very interesting and very disturbing.
Researchers have discovered active fault lines on Mount Hood that could potentially trigger a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, devastating communities and infrastructure as far west as Portland. (Oregon)
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake is larger than the 1989 earthquake near the San Francisco Bay Area. And faults on Mount Hood are closer to Portland that the epicenter of the 1989 earthquake was to San Francisco.
"This would be a crustal earthquake as opposed to the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake Portland has been bracing for," Prof. Ashley Streig said. "Subduction zone quakes are deeper below the surface, they last longer --as long as seven minutesz -- but they are lower in amplitude."
The kind of quake we would get from Mt. Hood would be shorter --20 seconds to less than a minute-- and would be "strong enough to knock you off your feet."
According to the last major assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's oceans have taken up over 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases.
But this new study says that every year, for the past 25 years, we have put about 150 times the amount of energy used to generate electricity globally into the seas - 60% more than previous estimates.
As well as potentially making it more difficult to keep warming below 1.5 or even 2C this century, all that extra heat going into the oceans will prompt some significant changes in the waters.
"A warmer ocean will hold less oxygen, and that has implications for marine ecosystems," said Dr Resplandy.
"There is also sea level, if you warm the ocean more you will have more thermal expansion and therefore more sea level rise."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46046067*
I'm not sure this is the best place for these, but here goes.
Two visions:
The first is of a massive wildfire in Canada, possibly Alberta. I'm picking up a potential connection to the oil sands. My feeling is that this fire would be caused by man, either the result of human or corporate negligence, or as a direct result of sabotage of some kind. There's an energy of things having gotten very out of hand. And though there may be terrible costs, there's also a sense of Nature reclaiming her ground.
In the second, I'm seeing the downstream effects of decreased snowmelt in Canada and the U.S. Rockies. This appears to have prolonged consequences for certain American watersheds. In certain regions, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs appear very low or even dry. Where the waters are very low, they appear quite toxic, as though stagnation has allowed the reality to surface.
There's a sense that this scenario had been widely predicted by scientists, so that certain corporations have been maneuvering to acquire rights to lands, resources, and technologies in advance of widespread drought.
There's an incredible energy of greed involved here—think Flint, MI writ large—but there's also what I can only describe as a spiritual federation of forces holding ground. There are native ancestors and many others aligned and supporting the Earth and those who support her and one another.
Thanks for posting. I am assuming they didn’t give you a sense of timing. But if you know timing, do share. Or do you feel it has already happened at the source, but just hasn’t fully played out yet.
Jeanne, I'm not getting specific timing for either of these except that I sense the Canadian wildfires may happen in 2019. It feels several months out, and logically I'm assuming it would have to be in warmer/dryer months, though I don't know for sure. I could even be wrong about the exact location. As I write this, I'm sensing two locations, though I'm not sure what that means.
For the water event, I feel that is further out, possibly years. It may start slowly in the short-term, impacting smaller regions at first, but like many others here, I'm sure, I've seen mass migrations—human and animal—due to environmental changes/climate crises, and this may be one of those. It may build progressively, or ebb and flow in strange degrees over the ensuing decades.
Though I do see a transformative shift occurring by 2030. There's a more collaborative feel to the way people are interacting with nature. Technology, communities, civilization generally—everything feels "greener." Also ... crystalline?
There's already inexpensive and mobile technology to desalinate ocean water, which could be (and eventually will be) made widely available. That's just one very small example of a beneficial grand challenge being supported by purpose-driven organizations (as opposed to profit-driven ones).
As I got to the end of my previous post, I felt a sense of pressure or tension releasing. I sincerely feel that the message here is that while there will be earth changes, and resultant confusion and fear, there will also be a great deal of positive transformation. We are being supported. There is light all around and within us. This time isn't about retribution and hellfire; it's about renewal and rebirth.
I'm closing this environmental disaster thread and encouraging people to carry it forward with new disaster topics:
Just opened one on the California Fires: If you are following the California fires, we now have a topic on it here. https://www.jeannemayell.com/community/climate-and-earth-predictions/california-fires-latest-crisis-government-response-and-predictions-for-future/#post-8755
Also opening up a continuation of this thread in Natural Disasters (Fires, Floods, Super Storms, Drought, Earthquakes).