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> Lakes don’t grow and grow and consume the world. No, they don't usually grow forever, that's true. But floods happen, and that's bad. Last time methane was t
by titzer 6y ago
> Lakes don’t grow and grow and consume the world.
No, they don't usually grow forever, that's true. But floods happen, and that's bad. Last time methane was this high it was millions of years ago, and Earth had no ice caps. We have already flooded the atmosphere with methane, and the consequences of this will take decades, if not centuries, to play out. Contrary to our current instant-gratification dopamine loops of today, the lag between cause and effect isn't two damn seconds or even one frickin year. So stay tuned.
Was it all from agriculture? We don't know. There's plenty of methane coming from fossil fuel production. Just go read the Wikipedia article I linked. We do know that we are getting close to setting off some very bad feedback loops, as arctic permafrost is starting to thaw, and it's going to produce gobs of methane.
- zackees 6y agoGoing to chime in here - ice ages cause extinctions, not warm ages. We are in the knifes edge of too cold. A little extra green house gas to buffer out the ice age is a good thing.
- howlin 6y agoThe problem is the millions to billions of people who are living in areas that will become virtually uninhabitable due to temperature changes and sea level rise. The first way climate change will seriously negatively impact humanity is through geopolitical conflict and a massive refugee crisis.
- zackees 6y agoYet that hasn’t happened despite all the warnings in the media for 3 decades of my life and no significant rise in sea level in my lifetime. The alarmism is more likely propaganda than legitimate scientific inquiry.
- Gustomaximus 6y agoWhat sea level rise would be significant to you? Its happening and accelerating: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ If you need something visual look at the Miami type floods. Also consider this is an issue that needs to be planned across hundreds of years. It might be slow but we dont move a city like NY in a decade. Look at this: https://sealevelrise.org/states/new-york/#:~:text=The%20sea%20level%20around%20Battery,inch%20every%207%2D8%20years https://sealevelrise.org/states/new-york/#:~:text=The%20sea%.... Genuinely, do you feel these links are alarmism and propaganda?
- dTal 6y agoChange causes extinctions. If the temperature suddenly swings down, things die. If it subsequently swings back up, do they come back? No! More things die.
- 8note 6y agoFloods tend to come from melt or tonnes of heavy rain. That's much more akin to digging carbon out of the ground to run processes than steady state cow methane production/degradation