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What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by ataturk »

username223 wrote: post #24
codecamper wrote: post #8

next the tundra melts and releases an insane amount of methane. we are so screwed.

It seems like we keep discovering new positive feedback loops for global warming. Less ice means less reflection. Warmer arctic means more methane from permafrost. Desertification means less carbon capture. There was a recent article in Scientific American about likely changes in cloud formation from AGW. Some clouds reflect sun (cooling), while others trap heat (warming). Guess which are likely to increase? I doubt…

I hope they only keep the smart people and murder just the dumb ones.

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by spot »

brandmeyer wrote: post #27
gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

See https://www.carbontracker.org/ and their 2014 report for some good information. The target audience is the financial sector, but its still readable if you are careful about the infographics. https://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unb...

how does that align with the CRBN ETF?

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by joe_the_user »

gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

Capitalism?

Maybe the "industry" is called capitalism and where one part might spew massive carbon in whatever form to the world, another part provides fake data, fake arguments and fake theories to say "it's okay"/"it will work out"/"it's a conspiracy!!" and the other publicizes these till everyone forgets.

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by tachyoff »

username223 wrote: post #24
codecamper wrote: post #8

next the tundra melts and releases an insane amount of methane. we are so screwed.

It seems like we keep discovering new positive feedback loops for global warming. Less ice means less reflection. Warmer arctic means more methane from permafrost. Desertification means less carbon capture. There was a recent article in Scientific American about likely changes in cloud formation from AGW. Some clouds reflect sun (cooling), while others trap heat (warming). Guess which are likely to increase? I doubt…

Don’t forget oceanic dead zones and acidification! All it takes is the death of an important part of the food chain to really hurt a lot of people.

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by timb07 »

panic wrote: post #38
gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

This is a relatively well-researched list: http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

That's a list of the potential reduction in emissions various solutions offer. You'd need to add together all the solutions relating to electricity generation (for example) to determine the impact of electricity generation as a whole. (And that's assuming that the listed solutions combined will address the whole of the problem, which I doubt.)

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by meri_dian »

I often see people talk about potential positive feedback loops involved in climate change, but rarely are potential damping mechanisms mentioned. So let's talk about them. I'll share one.

Methane consuming bacteria discovered under the West Antarctic ice shelf: https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242668

"The scientists say that if their analysis is correct, it could mean that a large reservoir of methane thought to lie under the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- which encompasses 25.4 million cubic kilometers (6.1 million cubic miles) of ice -- is less likely to be released into the atmosphere."

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by timb07 »

gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...:

* Electricity and Heat Production (25% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (24% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Industry (21% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Transportation (14% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

(Top 4 only, accounting for 74% of emissions)

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by Larrikin »

dsacco wrote: post #29
gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

I host over 30TB of excellent climate date here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/azimuth . These datasets were collected from various government agencies as part of a larger collaboration with John Baez and a couple of other scientists from the Azimuth Climate Data Project: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/azimuth_backup_project/ My server has a 1Gbps connection and can support sustained downloads of very large files. Unf…

Self hosting is important, but it seems like the wide disimmenation of this data would be helped by also making it available in torrent form as well.

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by timb07 »

brandmeyer wrote: post #27
gunnr15 wrote: post #19

‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬

See https://www.carbontracker.org/ and their 2014 report for some good information. The target audience is the financial sector, but its still readable if you are careful about the infographics. https://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unb...

But that report is only looking at fossil fuel reserves, rather than industries that consume those fossil fuels, thereby releasing greenhouse gases and causing climate change.

Further, there are other sources of greenhouse gases not related to fossil fuels, principally agriculture/livestock.

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