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Until the permafrost melts and starts pouring methane and CO2 into the atmosphere, which we can't stop without an equally insane plan
by roryisok 9y ago
Until the permafrost melts and starts pouring methane and CO2 into the atmosphere, which we can't stop without an equally insane plan
- chx 9y agoIt's sub-sea permafrost and it's possibly we have already damaged it so badly all the methane will leak and there's little we can do and there's little we know -- Russian Artic seafloors are in every which way pretty hostile to scientific research. (And also oil drilling, if you want to know more Google for Exxon Kara Sea and ponder what it means the Russian-awarded ex-CEO of Exxon is now the Secretary of State) As far as I am aware, most (all?) discoveries were made from surface vessels, often seeing a foaming sea, foaming methane. It's real bad.
- roryisok 9y agoIt's depressing that there's nothing any of us can do about it. All we can do is hope for some sort of miracle scientific solution. I hate the idea of geo engineering but the alternative seems impossibly worse