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This confirms the widely held supposition that elected officials are, by and large, morons... At some point war will be declared on emission points. By that I m
by aurizon 6y ago
This confirms the widely held supposition that elected officials are, by and large, morons...
At some point war will be declared on emission points. By that I mean fossil power plants will need to be destroyed by aggressive acts. If these acts are via domestic drone attacks by your own populace - so be it. It is possible that the situation will become dire, so countries will attack fossil fuel emitters in other countries as their own people start to starve by lack of crops. One hopes it will never come to that.
There is, of course, the elephant in the room - stored methane clathrates (a complex of methane and water that forms under fairly low pressure-300 psi or so). They are mainly accumulated under permafrost areas, and as the earth warms and melts the permafrost, the clathrates decompose into methane and water.Large amounts are being exposed in the arctic, where they were formed under the ice caps over millions of years, and stayed metastable until lower pressure/warmer temps allowed them to decompose.
Large areas in Northern Russia are now emitting methane from this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
- lotsofpulp 6y agoHalf of American voters voted for someone that doesn’t even bother addressing climate change.
- pmiller2 6y agoThe sad irony here is that no matter which half you're talking about, this is probably going to play out as true in practice.
- legolas2412 6y agoWhat? Biden addressed and plans to take action for climate change
- pmiller2 6y agoAnd you believe everything a politician says? His "plans" are not worth the paper they're written on, as far as I"m concerned. I don't think Biden is going to do anything at all, when it comes down to it. He's too far up in the pockets of corporate interests that don't want him to.
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- selimthegrim 6y agohttps://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946300/climate-scientists-throw-cold-water-arctic-methane-bomb-report https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/946300/climate-scientists...
- aurizon 6y agoPlant matter rots and uses up al the O2, further rotting is anaerobic and emits methane. Water - methane form into 'cage complexes' AKA Clathrates. These are formed at various levels of underground pressure. This is all under the water table and with no O2 = lots of methane = lots of clathrates. Once formed the clathrates resemble ice and act like rock, they stay where they are. They can break down into methane and water if the temperature increases and also if the pressure drops. Drop them into water and they fizz like pop rocks. The problem is these clathrates accumulate with time. Plants rot, methane is formed and locked up in stable clathrates. Now we are releasing huge volumes of clathrates in all the melting permafrost zones. There are also ocean bottom clathrates - rotting sea weed/algae cold and under pressure. Since methane has 80 times the warming effect of CO2, it is going to become a huge problem over the next 200 years.