Biomedical. Several items in recent days regarding “Pandemic” re-runs, attempts to push new "viral threats” stories upon a wary world.
First up, more on the “bird flu” hype.
The Bird Flu Blues: The Sky Is Falling…Again. HFDF [Health Freedom Defense Fund] Team, July 19, 2024.
Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
– The Eurythmics, “Here Comes the Rain Again”
The pandemic pandemonium machine appears to be revving up its engines for yet another campaign as Bird Flu Mania Redux is being unleashed across the airwaves, onto every screen and into every cranium still naive enough to believe the masters of microbial terror are on the up and up. The pandemia industry is rolling out its version of stale, exaggerated plot lines and ham-fisted Hollywood sequels that make Grade ‘B’ movies seem avant-garde.
Hysterical headlines fill the airwaves screeching end-times tales of the coming avian apocalypse: “This could be 100 times worse than covid” – “Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous” – “Concerns grow as ‘gigantic’ bird flu outbreak runs rampant in US dairy herds” – “Health warning over new pandemic ‘with 50 percent mortality rate’ after first human death confirmed.”
Running counter to the unsubstantiated caterwauling of the pharma influenced media parrots Mexican Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer countered the WHO’s claim that a 59 year old Mexican man had died from this latest presumed bird flu strain.
In unequivocal terms Alcocer rebuffed the WHO’s latest round of fear mongering stating, “I can point out that the statement made by the World Health Organization is pretty bad, since it speaks of a fatal case (of bird flu), which was not the case.” Noting that the man had numerous underlying medical conditions and had been bedridden for three weeks Alcocer added that the man had, “died from other causes, mainly kidney and respiratory failure.”
Lead role in this latest bird-brained episode of the Avian Flu H5N1 sequel seems to have been handed over to lifelong bureaucrat Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and self described Pandemic Nemesis.
Pandemia Theater
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
– William Shakespeare, from “As You Like It”, spoken by Jaques
No stranger to the bright lights of pandemic theatrics, Rick Bright was recently showcased at a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) webinar, “Avian Flu Outbreak and Preventing the Next Pandemic,” that was broadcast to 300 state and local officials from 47 states. Bright kicked off the hifalutin CFR symposium with an oblique reference to this latest viral hobgoblin, menacingly pronouncing it to be a “shapeshifter.” With nary a piece of evidence in sight, Bright commenced to “educate” the audience on this potential plague with a performance reminiscent of the Mad Hatter: “We know it can rapidly change. We know it can jump to different hosts and different species rapidly, and change, and evolve.
And those mutations can help it be more lethal, or adapt, or spread to humans and other hosts. Sometimes because the genetic makeup of the virus is fragmented, there’s all these segments inside that virus, you can have two viruses infect a person, or an animal, or a seasonal virus and the H5N1 virus. And they’ll recombine and reassort. And you’ll have this virus that comes out with some of the best or worst of all worlds. And so we know the tricks of this virus.”
Bright’s breathless rambling of ifs, ands, ors and mights, coming on the heels of the most massive medical money grab in history might cause one to pause and consider the reliability, if not integrity, of such pronouncements. These doomsday warnings come from the same pandemic fanatic “man-in-the-know” who in October of 2019 bizarrely foreshadowed the coming covid storm, “But it is not too crazy to think that an outbreak of a novel avian virus could occur in China somewhere.”……..
You’d think by now it would be glaringly obvious the emperor’s wearing no clothes and that the only pandemic to be feared is not coming from barnyard animals but one of snake oil salesmen.
Whatever their motives, be it the sadistic inclinations of Nurse Ratched dying to jab everyone again; or Billy Bug Gates and Co. looking to decimate the food supply by culling millions of birds and cattle in order to crank up his failing bug and chemical fake meat factories; or central bankers looking to give payouts of fake currency to farmers for their “losses” in order to further exacerbate hyperinflation in order roll out their CBDCs, one thing is for sure, despite all advertisements none of this is being done for public health.
So the next time you hear the carnival barkers of the Medical Mafia and their media parrots whistling dixie about some deadly bird bug ignore their self-serving hype and whistle your own tune: Meet the new flu – same as the old flu.
And, while no actual monetary penalties are likely given the global power status-quo, one prominent British health entity may be held in contempt of court for failure to comply with a FOIA request submitted by Christine Massey.,
University's protection of "covid test" fraudsters Paraytec Ltd & Carl Smythe comes to a head. Christine Massey, 7/22/24.
Greetings and Best Wishes,
I have previously reported on the University of Sheffield’s commercial relationship with a company called Paraytec Ltd, their research program led by Carl Smythe Professor of Cell Biology - aimed at development of a fraudulent “covid-19 test” that will fake-detect the imaginary “SARS-COV-2” - and the university staff’s protection of this racket via improper freedom of information responses: [Links to all these following items]
May 19, 2023:
"germ" FOIs - Joshua Quick 'King of Primers'; Carl Symthe/U Sheffield
September 16, 2023:
Fake-covid test developers Carl Smythe, U of Sheffield, Paraytec Limited, and a "virus" FOI
October 24, 2023:
University of Sheffield protects fake-covid test developers Paraytec Ltd & Carl Smythe... again
The great radio host Jesse Zurawell and I reviewed the situation during one of his November 2023 programs.
Briefly, the university’s freedom of information staff have provided one lame excuse after another in response to my formal requests for records containing necessary foundational evidence regarding the existence of the alleged-but-imaginary “SARS-COV-2”. They haven’t been willing to admit that they have no such records (because they don’t exist… anywhere on the planet) and they don’t want to release, for public scrutiny, the pseudoscientific records relied upon by Carl, the people behind Paraytec Limited and the university. The university’s FOI staff have openly admitted to putting private commercial interests ahead of the world’s interests.
So, on November 22, 2023 I filed a 2nd complaint to John Edwards acting as the UK Information Commissioner (pgs 1-12). On June 12, 2024, I received an email from “Keeley Christine, Senior Case Officer, Information Commissioner's Office” with the subject line Service of Decision Notice: IC-283697-J8J5 (pgs 40-48). (Keeley’s letter is not signed. I will be writing back to her for a signed copy.)[screen shot]
Long story short, according to Keeley’s June 12, 2024 decision letter (pgs 41 and 47) she decided that (bolding added) [by Massey]:
"3. The Commissioner requires the University to take the following steps to ensure compliance with the legislation:
• Disclose the requested information or issue a fresh response to the complainant’s request that complies with FOIA and which does not rely on section 14(1).
4. The University must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of FOIA and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.
...30. The Commissioner requires the University to provide the complainant with a fresh response to the request which does not rely on section 14(1) of FOIA. He notes that the University has already advised the complainant that information within scope of their previous request is intended for future publication. If, upon reviewing this request, it is the case that the University still intends to publish the specific information that has been requested at a future date, it should confirm that in its response.” [Screen shot]
Thirty five calendar days came and went with no one from the university contacting me. And so today I wrote back to Keeley, copying staff at the university (bolding added) [by Massey]:
“More than 35 calendar days have passed and no one from the university has contacted me at all. Therefore I ask that you make written certification of this fact to the High Court so that it may be dealt with as a contempt of court.” [Screen shot] Judging by his new emails to me (not copied to the ICO or anyone else at the university), it seems that Luke Thompson who acts as Head of Data Protection & Legal Services at the university is in a bit of a panic… poor thing (see email exchange, pgs 50/ [Screen shot]
Official Confessions/Evidence Showing that Virology is Pseudoscience [List of items, links]…..
My comment, a response and my response.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 7/22/24. Liked by Christine Massey FOIs.
Wow, one of these institutions may actually be held accountable for violating FOIA provisions? AMAZING!
Thanks so much Christine for your courage and persistence! 🙏🏼
IgorPM, 7/22/24. Liked by Christine Massey FOIs
I assume that there will be a fine of a couple of pounds from taxpayer funds going from the U to the court/state. I doubt that anyone's head will roll (meaning getting fired).
Jeffrey Strahl
Lockdown Times 7/22224. Liked by Christine Massey FOIs
Most likely. I was just talking psychologically. As long as "the powers-that-shouldn't-be are in place, nothing material will change.
And, the Gaza genocide is now being used to promote the virology falsehood, appealing in particular to activists on the “left” to buy into this false narrative, tempting them to do so in order to present yet one more bit of evidence supporting the case against the Zionist regime,
‘Ticking time bomb’: Poliovirus found in Gaza sewage. Looming health disaster for displaced Palestinians living in tent camps, where sewage flows freely, contaminating water. 7/19/24.
"Poliovirus has been detected in samples of sewage water in the densely populated Gaza Strip, placing “thousands” of Palestinians at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said it had detected “component poliovirus type 2” in coordination with UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency.”
My comments. This general virology-based “public health” argument has been a poison well regarding the long-ongoing Israeli genocide for many years, something discussed by among others Jesse Zurawell on his shows. This has included buying into the immunization myth, with Hamas and the PA both pushing shots upon the Palestinian population. Israel’s government has made an exception regarding its blockade to allow supplies of jabs to come into Gaza, even since October 7. Regarding the “Polio is caused by a virus” myth, there’s a bunch of good stuff out there, including this superb video by Dr Sam Bailey.
Toxicology vs Virology – Rockefeller Institute and the Criminal Polio Fraud, Dr Sam Bailey, 10/15/22.
F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. In July 2022, he published a brilliant essay titled “Toxicology vs Virology” that exposed the Rockefeller Institute’s role in creating virology. Using Polio as an example, it outlines how fictional “viruses” are used to advance medical tyranny.
He revealed:
• Flexner’s fraudulent experiments
• The corruption of the American Medical Association
• How the Rockefellers controlled the Polio narrative
• The real causes of Poliomyelitis
• How it relates to COVID-19 and current globalist agendas.
and much more!
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4IR. Several items regarding the Trump alleged assassination attempt.Another one has just been posted at Planet Waves, will discuss in the next edition.Starting with What’s Left?’s discussion of the event.
Trump Assassination Attempt: Deep State or Deep Fake? What’s Left? 7/20/24. An hour and 43 minutes.
"Was it a clumsy security accident, a deep-state hit on a presidential candidate determined to drain the swamp or an elaborate hoax meant to boost Donald Trump’s presidency? What’s Left? considers all three scenarios and speculate on what is behind the remarkable events in Butler PA this weekend. What does all this mean for workers in the United States and what does it say about what is coming from the US ruling class? Check us out!”
My comments. Thanks, Alex, Andy and Kenny!
EXCELLENT show all around!! Biden is now OUT (as of this morning, 7/21/24) is trying to anoint Harris but we'll see if the anointing oil sticks. No matter who wins the election, we lose. I totally agree, we're being readied for a major crackdown. And Trump, crowned a hero with his bloody ear and his raised "defiant" hand, will be the perfect person to get the "freedom" ranks, be they Scott Ritter, Kim Iverson, and the like, or the anonymous legions, to go along with this crackdown. This will be initially justified by Trump as part of “securing our (southern) border to stop the on-going invasion.” It will then widen to involve other facets of life, including growing escalations in US military involvements, in support of Israel and also in confronting China’s regime, seen by Trump and Vance as an existential threat. Meanwhile US involvement in Ukraine will be scaled back, the slack to be taken up by the EU. Both these are perfect excuses for a mandatory system of Digital IDs linked to a Blockchain data base.
I think what Alex said was that the "left" has a tradition of collective action, and the notion that we need to work together, vs the every person for him/herself. But the "left" in power has turned into as big a threat as any "right wing" power, witness the "COVID" Psy Op for a perfect example.
See David Sachs on X for his list of billionaires who have lined up for "enemy of the Deep State" Trump over the last week, including Elon, Peter Thiel of surveillance central Palantir (he's also on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group) , and Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of 4IR Central A16Z. Here.
David Sacks @DavidSacks, 7/16/24, late.
Ben Horowitz, Bill Ackman, Cameron Winklevoss, Doug Leone, Elon Musk, Eoghan McCabe, Ken Howery, Kyle Samani, Marc Andreessen, Jacob Helberg, Joe Lonsdale, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Shaun Maguire, Trevor Traina, Tushar Jain, Tyler Winklevoss, Come on in, the water’s warm.
And, the Planet Waves weekly show of last Friday was largely about this topic.
Nothing is Quite What it Seems.. Eric Francis Coppolino, 7/19/24.
Go To Program [Link to Planet Waves dot FM page, full program is two hours and 34 minutes]
Tonight’s program is devoted to figuring out what happened Saturday. Please note that I had a technical issue in the third segment (the one with my gritty analysis); I recorded it twice and it happened twice and I cannot record it a third time tonight. The audio is choppy with lots of little dropouts, but the data is there. I need to get some R&R and get back to wrapping the Trust Yourself readings.
I mention the Brasscheck video. Here it is. [Link]As I may have mentioned, I don’t care that he’s a Trump supporter unless that biases his analysis — and don’t see it doing so. I am interested in his breakdown of the three potential scenarios he sees, which is exactly the kind of approach I use. I’ll be back another time with my planned tributes to labor organizer Jane McAlevey and sex advice radio star Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The STARCAST below gives my analysis of the charts from Monday night. I give a succinct version at the end of the third segment with its choppy audio.
Good night, good weekend and please heed the Cap New Moon. This will affect all of us, especially the unstable or those who are on the edge.
My consolidated comments.
Glad to see you do see some things unaccounted for by Ken McCarthy ("Brasscheck."). Particularly the "circle and move' maneuver by the USSS which ... takes a break, in violation of the rules, so that Trump can do a pose. But you leave an aspect of that unaddressed: How did Trump *know* there wasn't another shooter out there, if he wasn't in on it? I forgot who said this, but he/she said that a trained military person would have a hard time even standing up after a near-miss or even limited impact, let alone pose like that. Unless absolute safety was guaranteed!!
Domcrin makes a really good point in an earlier comment.
"The wound to that part of Trumps ear would have absolutely gushed blood but no sign on his hand or shirt collar, just some paint marks across his cheek. "
If the blood wasn't fake, why did the bleeding stop so fast? Even if this was a cut inflicted by a razor-like dart? I've accidentally touched the edge of a razor blade, with a tip of a finger, and had bleeding which lasted not only 90 seconds (the time he was down) but 5 minutes. There should have been a lot more blood on his ear and indeed collar and beyond. One can argue there is no blood on his hand because his ear didn't start bleeding right away, not my experience with razor blades, but this doesn't explain the lack of stains or the limited amount of blood.
All the perspectives you presented were by Republicans. You stated that they are the only ones to talk about the matter critically, that Democrats complained about the shooter missing. Eh? The only perspectives are Democrats and Republicans? How about the many people who think this entire thing was a show, people like Tim Truth and Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond)? How about Kit Knightly of Off Guardian (problematic for sure), who wrote this item, Trump Assassination Attempt – The stories so far. Are we witnessing the birth of a new meta for propaganda narratives? Kit Knightly, 7/17/24. Conclusion: [Link, see 7/17/24 edition of LT for it]
"Meanwhile the “left”, fresh from four years of demonizing “anti-vaxxers” and “election deniers” can suddenly be hoist by their own petard and called “assassination deniers” by the right. It can be argued that supplying the “Left” with their own “conspiracy theories” is a potential stroke of genius, because now any social media crackdown on “extreme language” or “denial” (or whatever they choose to call it) can hit both “sides” equally and be spared accusations of bias, and will always be supported by one side of this fake divide.
Both “Left” and “Right” are also pretty clear right now on whose stock has risen most as a result of this – Trump. Obviously. It makes him look tough and brave, paralleling the shooting of Ronald Reagan in 1981. It’s given him an iconic image that speaks wordlessly to the deep heart of America – bloody but unbowed, fist-raised in defiance.
And, if you believe the Deep State pulled the trigger, it also furthers Trump’s (unearned & increasingly ridiculous) reputation as some kind of threat to the establishment. Combine this with Biden’s disastrous debate performance, the (mysteriously halted) talk of taking him off the ticket, and anonymous Democrat insiders reportedly “resigned” to defeat and it’s not hard to see this might be part of the groundwork being laid for a second Trump term.
Barring future developments of course. Oh, and it’s also helping to heat up divisive “civil war” rhetoric.…which might be the entire point. How better to finally take down the old empire & instate the new “improved” version a little further east?”
And, an analysis of audio tapes, done by Chris Martenson, is presented on this Substack, Jennifer Depew. And other points made by her and Martenson.
by Chris Martenson, PhD of Peak Prosperity - he made a free video. Jennifer Depew, R.D., 7/19/24.
Badly botched job, the organizer is probably floating in a river right now …. per Chris Martenson’s audio analysis. …. Unless a near miss and heroic Trump was the real goal, rather than a true assassination attempt. I am not sure that Chris’s analysis disproves the idea that Trump’s wound might have been applied during the pile-up rather than from the alleged near miss.
• See the previous post about the ‘amazing photography’: Where was the bloody palm in all the video footage? How did it show up only in a still photo? (Substack).
And while a lot of additional shots were taken, Trump really wasn’t in danger anymore because he was under the pile-up. It was the audience and a fireman who were still at risk. Those deaths and injuries were allowed to happen because the police were warned in advance by many people of the rooftop shooter. They allegedly knew for a half hour or even two hours. Whether this was staged to be a near-miss or if it was a failed assassination attempt is unclear but the audio analysis by Chris suggests that at least two or probably three guns were firing towards the podium and audience from the direction of the rooftop shooter.
Shots 1, 2, and 3 were from a greater distance than the roof position, and sounded deeper in tone and it was a little slower between shots. The first shot nicked Trump’s ear allegedly and hit a person in the bleachers on the far left of Trump.
Shots 4 through 9 were a tight sounding cluster with echos in between some but not all of them. It seems like 2 similar sounding guns but there was slightly greater distance and no echo for shots 6 and 9. Chris says all of these shots were aimed at the stage, rather than any being counter sniper return fire. He suggests that 4, 5 and 8 could have been the guy on the roof and 6 and 9 could have been from a back-up sniper on a slightly farther out roof or maybe from within the building. After a longer pause there was a tenth shot which Chris thinks was the return fire from the counter sniper.
In his video Chris Martenson, PhD, numbers the shots by the clusters. The gun from a longer distance, which had a deeper tone was labeled 1, 2, and 3. And from the injury and the bullet hitting a rail and turning into a puff of smoke (vaporized), he suggests that likely was a larger bullet, possibly a 308, which can be used with a Remington 700, a weapon that is more typical for snipers because it would be more accurate at longer distance than an AR15.
And he called the cluster of more rapid fire: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in the screenshot below. He had two video sound files with known locations - one at the podium, and one closer to the rooftop shooter where the cellphone holding person was standing. He lined up the audio to see if the sounds also lined up as it should have if there was no difference in distance from where the shots were taken — but the sounds didn’t overlap exactly. He thinks this shows that the roof shooter had a hidden back-up shooter in a very nearby location, maybe 70 feet from the roof top location. And the first cluster of shots seemed to be a different gun and lower to the ground - inside the building itself.
This does put an AR sounding gun on the roof with Yearick/Crooks and the potentially bigger bullet/longer barrel Remington 700 (maybe the type of gun) inside of the building…..
If it was the first shot that nicked Trump, then feasibly it could have been staged to occur at the moment he says “…and now if you want to see something really sad….” and then the shot fires and chaos follows. The rest of the shots would have been after he was already under the pile of guards, possibly doing a faked injury to the ear while in the pile up. See the previous post: Where was the bloody palm in all the video footage? How did it show up only in a still photo?….
“Conclusions
• There were at least two distinctly different weapons being fired
• First three shots were further away than the weapon(s) that fired the next 5-7 shots.
• Sonic cracks tell us that they were also fired at Trump’s & audience’s direction (and weren’t taking out Crooks, eg)
• This means that the “lone shooter” story is 100% false.
• I can’t be the only guy who’s done this analysis.” Chris Martenson.
And, a LONG video by Ryan Cristian, aka The Last American Vagabond.
Evidence Mounts Showing Official Story On Trump Shooting Is False & Cancel Culture From The Right, TLAV, 7/18/24, four hours and 18 minutes.
My comments. He presents AMPLE evidence for multiple shooters and for questioning why Trump didn’t seem to fear getting shot when he posed for cameras. HIGHLY recommended.
And, this item is short, and impactful.
My comments.The producer/narrator is Gavin Nascimento. He wrote for Freethought Project for many years. His point: If the Deep State really wanted Trump dead, it could have had him taken out by much more subtle means, not to mention the second,, third … shooters at the event taking him out.
And, the latest two videos by Time Truth. The second is a bit flakey, but the first is good.
Trump Fake Shooting Breakdown - by Tim Truth, 7/20/24, just over 8 minutes.
WHY DOES THE BLOOD ON TRUMP'S FACE LOOK JUST LIKE THE CROWDSTRIKE LOGO?!, by Tim Truth, 7/21/24. 5 minutes.
MY OVERALL ANALYSIS.
Multiple shooters were involved. I think Ryan Cristian’s analysis is so far the best in that regard. And Crooks may have been recruited to play adjunct security, bring his gun along, with next thing he knows being that he’s being blown away while others are shooting into the crowd. And Trump was mostly aware that this was going on. But they also pulled a surprise on him and used a dart razor weapon to cut his ear and deliver him a direct message. [Coppolino discusses the razor dart weapon in his presentation]
The motives? Get Trump’s supporters convinced that the Deep State was out to get him, while falling behind an agenda of a surveillance/compliance state administered by Silicon Valley, s variating of Project 2025. You can see it with the likes of Scott Ritter and Kim Iverson. As Gavin Nascimento said, these supporters went for the “negligence” or “criminal negligence” angles which were meant to hook them. What’s Left also did a good job on that.
Meanwhile, as mentioned, Biden pulled out of the race yesterday, and the party, in no mood for a bruising fight, is uniting around his anointed replacement, VP Kamala Harris. Problem is, she’s running just about as badly in the polls as Biden did.
And, Owen Jones discusses Biden’s legacy as THE enabler-in-chief of the Israeli genocide war.
Biden Stands Down - History Will Damn Him, Owen Jones, 7/21/24. 16 minutes.
"The blood of thousands of Palestinians stains this man's hands."
And, it’s already been a record hot summer in many places around the world. On Sunday, 7/7/24, the temp hit 120 deg F in Las Vegas, all time record high, beating the old record by 3 deg F. By the end of the week, 7 straight days with highs of 115 or more, the old record was 4. More on the long hit summer.
Summer Is Half Over, And On A Record-Hot Pace In Over 30 Cities In East, West. Jonathan Erdman, 7/18/24.
Summer's first half was the hottest on record for over 30 U.S. cities from the East Coast to California and the Southwest as the season reached its halfway mark.
It's hard to believe, but meteorological summer – the three-month period from June through August most closely corresponding to the hottest temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere – has already surpassed its midway point. The first six weeks of summer have shattered heat records in parts of the country.
Ending this segment and this edition, a discovery as to why climate models have UNDERSTATED the warming which the planet has been experiencing.
UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models. Their update accounts for the effects of overlooked physical properties in ice. 7/15/24.
As the planet continues to warm due to human-driven climate change, accurate computer climate models will be key in helping illuminate exactly how the climate will continue to be altered in the years ahead.
In a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a team led by researchers from the UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science and the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering reveal how a climate model commonly used by geoscientists currently overestimates a key physical property of Earth’s climate system called albedo, which is the degree to which ice reflects planet-warming sunlight into space.
“We found that with old model versions, the ice is too reflective by about five percent,” said Chloe Clarke, a project scientist in UC Irvine professor Charlie Zender’s group. “Ice reflectivity was much too high.” The amount of sunlight the planet receives and reflects is important for estimating just how much the planet will warm in the coming years. Previous versions of the model, called the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), overestimated albedo because they did not account for what Clarke described as the microphysical properties of ice in a warming world. Those properties include the effects things like algae and dust have on albedo. Dark-colored algae and dust can make snow and ice less reflective and less able to reflect sunlight.
To do the analysis, Clarke and her team studied satellite data to track the albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet. They found that E3SM reflectivity overestimates the reflectivity of the ice sheet, “meaning the model estimates less melt than what would be expected from the ice microphysical properties,” said Clarke. But with the new ice reflectivity incorporated into the model, the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at a rate of about six gigatons more than in older model versions. This is based on albedo measurements that are more consistent with satellite observations.
Clarke hopes her team’s study stresses the importance of the seemingly minuscule properties that can have far-reaching consequences for the overall climate. “I think our work is going to help models do a much better job of helping us capture snow and ice-related climate feedbacks,” she said.
Next, Clarke wants to study different icy parts of the planet to gauge how widespread the albedo discrepancy is in E3SM. “Our next steps are to get it so it is functional globally and not just valid over Greenland,” said Clarke, who also intends to compare the new Greenland Ice Sheet melt rates to observations to measure how much more accurate the new ice albedo is. “It would be useful to apply it to glaciers in places like the Andes and Alaska.”