Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress
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#2Sounds like it's time to start planting trees up there. Greenland is going to be green again before we get this under control.
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#3Sounds like it's time to start planting trees up there. Greenland is going to be green again before we get this under control.
I like your optimism. I wish I shared it.
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#4One of the many unknown and unforseeable ways in which the climate crisis might play out is that different countries have different imperatives.
As temperatures rise, countries like Russia might well be net winners, as their frozen lands thaw out and become viable for agriculture.
When/if carbon capture becomes a reality, we'll have something of a global thermostat. What sort of wars will ensue to decide who gets to tweak the thermostat and whether it is turned up or down?
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#6The last 2-3 weeks in South Central Alaska have been crazy hot for that region. 90F common across the area, we hit 80+F at our higher altitude cabin several days in a row. First time we ever hit 80 in the 15 years we've had it.
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#7One of the many unknown and unforseeable ways in which the climate crisis might play out is that different countries have different imperatives. As temperatures rise, countries like Russia might well be net winners, as their frozen lands thaw out and become viable for agriculture. When/if carbon capture becomes a reality, we'll have something of a global thermostat. What sort of wars will ensue to decide who gets to…
Are there any soil biologists around on who can comment on the viability of this? Because as far as I understand, the land under permafrost in Russia is pretty much tundra and in Greenland, it's gravel. So it would take centuries to make it tillable compared to the timescale of decades we have before current breadbaskets lose the production capacity.
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#8Sounds like it's time to start planting trees up there. Greenland is going to be green again before we get this under control.
On one hand that would help capture CO2, on the other hand the change in albedo might contribute to further temperature increase.
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#9>The average July high for Alert is 7 C.
...and...
>Environment Canada says Canadian Forces Station Alert hit a record of 21 C on Sunday.
If we're talking about the same exact region, those are drastically differing numbers, indeed.
Stupid question: Would it be a run-away greenhouse[0] type of situation that would explain the starkly contrasting differences?
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect
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#10I hope Paul Beckwith does a video on this topic. The climate emergency is even more urgent.