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Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says

17 points by montalbano 5y ago

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aaron695 5y ago
Environmental Industrial Complex - > Methane is 84 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide You should be scared. Reality, the atmospheric residence time of methane is approximately 9 years If however a carbon sink might leak in fifty or even one hundred years, it can't work, don't bother trying You should be scared. If methane scares you, do something useful and work on lab grown meat, so the rest of us can get our farms back to nature, not have to worry about killing living creatures, get cheap burgers, not have to listen to vegans, increase jungle carbon sinks and you'll get less methane.
- Proven 5y ago
  It's amazing that links from the Guardian can still be shared on HN. There's at least one alarmist article per day and most of stuff that's shared is misleading, unproven or outright false.
- watertom 5y ago
  Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide and it lasts for 114 years in the atmosphere, and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxide is released by thawing permafrost.
  - aaron695 5y ago
    > and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxide is released by thawing permafrost. Did you realise how on point to my comment this is? You seem unsure of what you are scared of. Unless I'm missing that you are being facetious. Nitrous oxide not a issue. But factory meat will eliminate most of the worlds preventable emissions. You get less happy gas in the air and I get more forests and healthy humans. We could both win. (The environmental industrial complex will spin fast though, they will not allow you stability)
jefurii 5y ago
> “We don’t know how dangerous [methane releases] are, because we don’t know how fast the gas can be released. It’s very important to know more about it,” Froitzheim said. If, at some point in the future, large global temperature rises lead to a big volume being released, “this methane would be the difference between catastrophe and apocalypse.”

17 points by montalbano 5y ago

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Environmental Industrial Complex - > Methane is 84 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide You should be scared. Reality, the atmospheric residence time of methane is approximately 9 years If however a carbon sink might leak in fifty or even one hundred years, it can't work, don't bother trying You should be scared. If methane scares you, do something useful and work on lab grown meat, so the rest of us can get our farms back to nature, not have to worry about killing living creatures, get cheap burgers, not have to listen to vegans, increase jungle carbon sinks and you'll get less methane.

Proven 5y ago
It's amazing that links from the Guardian can still be shared on HN. There's at least one alarmist article per day and most of stuff that's shared is misleading, unproven or outright false.
watertom 5y ago
Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide and it lasts for 114 years in the atmosphere, and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxide is released by thawing permafrost.
- aaron695 5y ago
  > and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxide is released by thawing permafrost. Did you realise how on point to my comment this is? You seem unsure of what you are scared of. Unless I'm missing that you are being facetious. Nitrous oxide not a issue. But factory meat will eliminate most of the worlds preventable emissions. You get less happy gas in the air and I get more forests and healthy humans. We could both win. (The environmental industrial complex will spin fast though, they will not allow you stability)

jefurii 5y ago

> “We don’t know how dangerous [methane releases] are, because we don’t know how fast the gas can be released. It’s very important to know more about it,” Froitzheim said. If, at some point in the future, large global temperature rises lead to a big volume being released, “this methane would be the difference between catastrophe and apocalypse.”