NASA scientist, Kimberley Miner, reveals how she sobbed from ‘CLIMATE GRIEF’ after learning blue oaks would die in her native California

A NASA climate scientist has embarked on an emotional tirade about how she suffers from so-called “climate grief” — brought on by droughts in her native California.

Broadcast in an article for Naturecomes the claim of Dr. Kimberley R. Miner, a climate scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena.

One of the world’s most important scientific publications, Nature, labeled the op-ed as coming from a well-trained expert, even though the language used was mostly emotional.

Instead of looking seriously at data about Earth’s atmosphere, readers were presented with an anecdote in which Miner recalled crying after realizing that a drought would mean the death of hundreds of endemic California blue oak trees.

In an effort to garner sympathy, the co-chair of the NASA Interagency Forum on Climate Change Risks claimed that as a result, nearly a year later, both she and her colleagues were still battling “serious, emerging health issues.”

The opening passage of the article reads: “Last September, before the rains came, my field team found that it was probably too late for half of the California blue oaks affected by the drought in the region we were working in.

Miner, also a fellow at the Center for Climate and Security in DC, further claims, “Because of the years of prolonged drought, many trees would not recover from the long-term water loss and would die.

“The next morning I sat outside our science team meeting and cried.”

The report from the Climate Change Institute’s accredited research assistant professor — which referred to the state’s current 20-year mega-drought — did not address other droughts in the region throughout history, many of which have lasted more than 200 years.

None of these cases, which experts have confirmed through the analysis of ocean currents and other practices such as radiocarbon dating, can be linked to humans, nor could they have been prevented by any human intervention.

Seemingly undeterred by these facts, Miner continued to push ahead with how she’s handling the stress — warning that investigators must find personal ways to deal with further impending losses.

“I also started talking candidly with my colleagues about the emotional turmoil often caused by working as a climate scientist today, and many others had similar stories,” the scientist wrote, citing studies showing that the ancient blue oak forests be in turmoil in California. danger of dying.

“I’m in my mid-thirties and work at NASA as a scientist, and I already have five scientist friends with serious, emerging health problems,” she continued.

“They all suffer from overwork, exhaustion and extreme stress. The only thing they all have in common is that they study climate change.’

Miner continued: “Climate scientists have been advocating for 40 years for recognition of the destabilization of the Earth’s ecosystems.

“Even in my lifetime, the climate system has changed noticeably, with hotter summers, longer dry spells, and more frequent and more violent storms,” ​​she claimed.

“Some climate scientists have left the field, some have died and some have retired, but even more are just starting their careers.”

She further claimed that the solution lies in taking small solution-oriented actions to reduce man’s ecological footprint on the world, and that younger scientists like herself are responsible for educating the masses.

A passage followed preaching what many would consider misinformation, attributing the supposed slow demise of the blue oak to the permafrost caused by climate change.

“Whether in the form of increased flow rates from glaciers, downpours turning atmospheric rivers, or abrupt thawing of permafrost disrupting sections of highways, these unforeseen hazards are increasingly emerging,” the fear-laden excerpt reads.

“Scientists with decades of experience in one field location may be confronted with a new atmospheric or hydrological circulation pattern, an unusual storm or frost, or literally shaky ground.

“While we have a responsibility to monitor how certain locations change in an increasingly hotter and more extreme climate, that could pose a significant risk to scientists.”

Miner further concluded that she suffers from “climate grief” due to current climate conditions in California — and the world — especially the decline of California’s blue oak.

The majestic conifers that once thrived in the state’s diverse countryside are now dying, according to recent surveys, though most of the decline can be traced to a previous drought from 1985 to 2016.

A recent study found that a major loss of more than 1,000 square miles of blue oak tree cover occurred during the drought due to fire and other causes.

This has eased significantly this year after the state received months of relentless rain and some of the heaviest snowfall on record.

The biologically diverse blue oak forests are endemic to the state and prized for their old growth.

Many, like Miner, believe that the impacts of climate change, such as frequent droughts, may threaten their range.

Efforts are underway to protect the trees, which still exist in the foothills of the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada.