Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
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Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
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Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#2So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years.
Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#3So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
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Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#4So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
What should we do?
Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#5Apparently it’s no longer mitigation, now adaptation. The desire to avoid nihilism at point is tough. I’m pushing 40 and I hope I get 25 more years, family kids are in for it.:(
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#7The tipping point of massive frozen methane bubbles melting and that's it. We better get really good at somehow containing them. Good luck humanity.
Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#8So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
What should we do?
Throw as much engineering and innovation at the problems as possible. Conservation alone is no longer sufficient.
And I meant problems. As in, protecting the food supply chain, protecting the electronics supply chain, adopting a defense posture to prepare for a far more desperate global population, finding ways to save coastal cities or quickly relocate people, throwing everything at the wall for innovative new exotic energy generation and storage systems (far past nuclear) and, most importantly, preserving the knowledge and means of humanity.
We're past the point where pretending this will get fixed politically is reasonable. We need to assume it won't and work to protect the future in spite of the horrors to come.
Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#9So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
What should we do?
Use technology to survive in an inhospitable atmosphere. Probably without any dependency on the atmosphere outside our cities in the long run. Cleaning the atmosphere is harder when you’re just trying to survive.
EDIT: Inhospitable atmosphere, to my mind, includes weather, drought, flash floods, etc. Not just the chemical makeup of the air.
Re: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
#10So have we fired a clathrate gun then [1]? It's getting increasingly difficult to pretend worst-case global warming scenarios won't turn into reality in the next 25 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
What should we do?
Nothing. Too late.
Our current global political structure can't coordinate such action. So what will left to be done is dealing with the mess.
Big countries will have a lot more room to weather this, but small countries are on their own.