Permafrost thawing 70 years ahead of projections

[misanthrope]

Fasten your seatbelts, kids; It's going to be a bumpy ride.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/18/arctic-permafrost-canada-science-climate-crisis

[dalton99a]

1. .

[MineralMan]

2. Yikes!

[democratisphere]

3. Global warming and climate change is accelerating and there is little

or nothing that is actually being done to slow the fallout such as permafrost thawing. First it has to be recognized as a serious problem before anything of substance can be done about it. drumpf the denier liar continues to hold office and spew his alternative science.

[zipplewrath]

4. The real question

What can be done at this point and what can we hope to accomplish.

[theophilus]

7. We need to put particulates into the upper atmosphere to shade the poles.

That would be relatively doable and not too expensive, or so I've been told. Now the problem is that fine fellows like Mr. Putin don't want no stinkin' ice in the arctic. It gets in the way. So, until we pull our collective heads out of our collective asses we are traveling down the road to extinction. The older rich dudes think that they will be dead before the real shit hits the fan. They are probably wrong but what difference will it make? The vast majority of folks are just goofing around trying to survive. They certainly are not paying attention. We had a pretty good run.

[zipplewrath]

9. How much?

Do you know how much to put up there? Who will benefit the most, and the least? Will anyone be disadvantaged from doing this? How much is too little and how much is too much?

[theophilus]

11. Scientists have a good idea. We are all frakked if we don't. Simple, really. n/t

[democratisphere]

12. The ever increasing carbon dioxide levels caused by humans, combined with the

ongoing destruction of forests providing carbon dioxide to oxygen conversion, puts this planet in dire straits for which there appears to be no viable answer or solution.

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/

[theophilus]

5. Look on the bright side. This thaw will release a pathogen that we have

no immunity from to protect us. The earth will be rid of most of us due to a pestilence. Win/Win. We won't have to suffer all that long.


Or-

The coming nuclear war will set things right by putting all of our civilization up into the atmosphere. The earth will be fine in 20 or 30 million years. No sweat. (See what I did there?)

[democratisphere]

13. Geologic time cures all.

[roamer65]

15. If aliens landed on this planet and asked me about the human race....

I would tell them the same that Frank Zappa said he would tell them.

Eradicate us.

[Demovictory9]

6. kick

[theophilus]

8. Seems nobody cares. What are we to do? Nothing I guess. Medicare for all. n/t

[Raine]

10. I wish TV media would cover this

I guess they're too worried about their corporate sponsors bailing on them if they cover environmental issues.

[smirkymonkey]

17. So do I. Not nearly enough attention is being paid to this issue.

I think we are all just whistling past the graveyard. Nobody can really deal with the enormity of it, so they choose to ignore it because they don't want to be the first to break the bad news. Either way, it's still going to happen. It's too late now.

[roamer65]

14. The National on the CBC was sounding the alarm the other night.

The Canadians are freaking out about it and rightly so.

They showed how over the past 20 years, insurance claims for natural disasters have gone exponential.

[misanthrope]

16. I know someone who hails from upper Ontario

She said they have started finding insect life previously unknown there, species more common to southern latitudes. Nature's migration tells the tale.