7,000 underground gas bubbles poised to ‘explode’ in Arctic
The Siberian Times reports that 7,000 underground pingoes are set to explode in the Arctic region, releasing more methane and carbon dioxide directly into the atmosphere.
Scribbler has a post about this, but I don’t post anything of his anymore as readers know. I’m absolutely fed up with his dishonesty about renewables and his past ridicule of “climate alarmists” that he engaged in, especially on the methane threat which he chose to ignore while several of us “doomers” didn’t. He is now having to back track from this position. If you want to read it, you can go find it yourself, it doesn’t add anything that anyone here doesn’t already know.
In any case, the melting permafrost is getting some more attention worldwide, which is of no surprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqunK_Zev1E
Scribbler is not a scientist, and doesn’t understand a lot of what he writes about.
The very short term forcing factor for methane is still unknown, apparently.
General heating in the Arctic region is disastrous.
Rather less sea ice than normal at both ends of the planet.
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent
A very interesting period (May to September) coming.
It would seem to me that there is absolutely no possibility of a better ice year (more ice), but a virtual certainty of a new low-record.
Examination of the past record shows only a few variations for the present month and then a linear downward trend until mid-September. They will need to expand the graph – to show ice below 2km².
The fossil-fuel-based industrial civilization is tackling the effects of overuse of fossil fuels instead of the causes. As usual.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/24/us-scientists-launch-worlds-biggest-solar-geoengineering-study
(I’m not convinced current economic arrangements will last beyond 2022. In fact I’m convinced they won’t.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/brace-for-the-financial-crash-of-2018-b2f81f85686b#.c4lp26jwz )
I’ve always said that “everything would be tried” and so it is. Geoengineering appeals to everyone since it pretends to offer a continuance of the current consumption / energy paradigm.