Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
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Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#2It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything.
Edit: Doom scale...
1 Inconvenient storms.
2 More frequent natural disasters.
3 Destroying coastal cities.
4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations.
5 Decimating human population.
6 Destroying human civilization.
7 Destroying all humans on earth.
8 Destroying all life on earth.
9 Destroying earth.
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#3Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#4This is not a “time bomb”, which implies something being inflicted on us by a malevolent agent. It’s a temperature bomb. And we can easily prevent the explosion by simply not making the planet too hot.
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#5It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything. Edit: Doom scale... 1 Inconvenient storms. 2 More frequent natural disasters. 3 Destroying coastal cities. 4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations. 5 Decimating human population. 6 Destroying human civilization. 7 Destroying all humans on earth. 8 Destroying all lif…
The sad thing is that scientists have understood the risks of global warming for decades, and yet our civilization (maybe I'm just speaking for the US here) seems impotent to effectively coordinate a response to this slow-motion threat.
It could be our own Great Filter.
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#6Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
It'd be nice if this wasn't an exception...
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#7There could be anything underneath all the permafrost, including new biodiversity which we haven't catalogued yet. NPR ran a story[0] where Russian animals such as reindeer infected with Anthrax had thawed out, and caused outbreaks where people had to get preventative treatments against it. As a future threat model, what if there's new viruses or bacterium contained under previously frozen earth for which modern medicine isn't prepared for?
[0]https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/4884009...
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#8Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Except in this case, the scientific consensus is "yes".
The IPCC report for policy-makers:
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#9It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything. Edit: Doom scale... 1 Inconvenient storms. 2 More frequent natural disasters. 3 Destroying coastal cities. 4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations. 5 Decimating human population. 6 Destroying human civilization. 7 Destroying all humans on earth. 8 Destroying all lif…
The sad thing is that scientists have understood the risks of global warming for decades, and yet our civilization (maybe I'm just speaking for the US here) seems impotent to effectively coordinate a response to this slow-motion threat. It could be our own Great Filter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
and yet our governments
Re: Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
#10Betteridge's law of headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Except in this case, the scientific consensus is "yes". The IPCC report for policy-makers: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...
Is scientific consensus incapable of being wrong?