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Mysterious craters blowing out of Russia could mean trouble for the whole planet
- pan69 9y agoThe guy in the video says: "You don't really want to be relying on regulations, we learned all the way back in 2009 that those subsidies can be removed anytime." What exactly do regulations have to do with subsidies? Aren't regulations the rules of the game where a government is keeping an eye out over an industry? If there are subsidies involved, aren't these separate from regulations? Are we seeing here a conflation of regulations with subsidies and therefore a message of "regulations are bad"?
- klenwell 9y agoWhich takes us back to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941923 And the comment that best captured my state of mind regarding that tread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943847
- ncr100 9y ago"We're fuuuucked." seems accurate. Global renewable energy usage seems to be sensible, since it might reduce the fuck. And perhaps the gas extraction firms will propose solutions for this particular threat from global warming.
- singularity2001 9y agoWouldn't greenhouse gases turn earth into a wet greenhouse? A parcel of air that is near saturation may contain 28 grams of water per cubic meter of air at 30 °C, but only 8 grams of water per cubic meter of air at 8 °C. So isn't it possible that runaway methane would turn Sahara green again?
- true_tuna 9y agoMysterious? The first bullet unveils the mystery. They're the result of melting permafrost which releases methane which causes more melting. Feedback loop? Yes. Mysterious? No. That's like saying "Mysterious acceleration when I press the gas pedal."