Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC

Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
reuters.com

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

This is the associated paper, sorry for the paywall. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...

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Post by williesleg » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

And of course the mainstream media is hating on Tesla and solar energy. Cuomo won't even let them run in NY

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

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Post by challenger22 » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

I see a screaming face in the article's top picture. A gaping maw of horror!

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

challenger22 wrote: post #5

I see a screaming face in the article's top picture. A gaping maw of horror!

If you expand the picture there are actually several photos including a shot from approximately the same location in 2004 that provides a useful comparison.

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Post by pfisch » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

Maybe I don't understand the ramifications of this, but it kind of sounds like we missed the offramp where we just stop burning carbon.

Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

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Post by SketchySeaBeast » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 8:02 PM UTC

pfisch wrote: post #7

Maybe I don't understand the ramifications of this, but it kind of sounds like we missed the offramp where we just stop burning carbon. Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

> Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

Doesn't that particular option seem like it'd be adding on extra unknown consequences? I wonder how that'd effect our natural CO2 scrubbers.

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Post by andromeduck » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

pfisch wrote: post #7

Maybe I don't understand the ramifications of this, but it kind of sounds like we missed the offramp where we just stop burning carbon. Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

We could have had nuclear but nope too scary!

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

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