lol. must become 1% er ASAP…
And don’t get me started on efforts to lift most of the worlds population out of poverty. Don’t they realize what a disaster it would be for the environment to raise global living standards?
It’s unusual when its the middle of winter and the ocean is supposed to be ice and its not for the the first time in memory for residents.
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The more research that is conducted the clearer it becomes how worse things are.
Instead of a few centimetres of thaw a year, several metres of soil can destabilize within days. Landscapes collapse into sinkholes. Hillsides slide away to expose deep permafrost that would otherwise have remained insulated.
Wildfires, becoming larger and hotter every year over the Canadian boreal forest, are also causing rapid permafrost thaw.
Nearly one-fifth of Arctic permafrost is now vulnerable to rapid warming, Turetsky’s paper suggests. Plenty of it is in Canada, such as in the lowlands south of Hudson Bay.
Soil analysis found those quickly thawing areas also contain the most carbon. Nearly 80 per cent of them hold at least 70 kilograms of carbon per cubic metre.
That suggests permafrost is likely to release up to 50 per cent more greenhouse gases than climate scientists have believed. As well, much of it will be released as methane, which is about 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.
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That is not what happened. The Bearing Sea is often significantly open water that time of year. What caused the flooding was a storm. When you live at sea level, it doesn’t take much.
The sea ice protects from winter storm flooding. The lack of sea ice - which is normally present in winter according to those who live there and research the area - was gone due to warm air blowing in from the south, the opposite of typical.
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I know; I live here. But when you live on the coast and the elevation of your town is marked “0 feet” All it takes is a good blow to flood you whether there is ice or not. And did you read the article? There was sea ice, but it was thin and/or broken enough that the wind crumbled it up just like it does on the shores of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. And the flooding was caused by the wind/ice surge that partially dammed the river which then flowed into the village.
The article says the sea ice that normally prevents winter flooding was compromised by warm conditions - which isn’t usual, along with the rest of everything that is unusual going on stated in the article.
As I said, low amount or lack of sea ice in the Yukon delta area that time of year is not uncommon. The issue was the strong storm and associated surge. The author of the article misrepresented that to present the narrative they wished to present.
Yes…But if we are all dead, we wont care about it.
Extinctions have been going on for millions of years.
More low dimensional thinking. What’s even the upshot of artic shipping lanes if there’s not a meaningful civilization to utilize in the ways Pompeo envisions?
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavisOliverR/status/1125479188889260033
Shipping across the pole will save billions of barrels of bunker C fuel oil, thereby cutting carbon emissions.
The carbon emission cutting that mattered would be the ones before the poles melted.
Or perhaps before an additional 6 billion people joined the billion that inhabited the planet 150 years ago.
