Our leaders look climate change in the eyes, and shrug / Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions / Terrifying documentary on US wildfires
There is a certain sort of amusement to be had in watching the developed world deal with the insistent onslaught of climate change. Like many horror stories, this one features a main character full of futile determination to maintain a sense of normalcy even as the ominous signs of doom become ever more impossible to ignore. We can chuckle knowing that the monster is going to come for our designated protectors. We stop chuckling knowing that it’s coming for all of us next.
It is easy to imagine that a real live existential threat to our way of life would prompt any society to assume war footing and marshal everything it has to fight for survival. Unfortunately, this response only takes hold in actual war situations, where the threat is “other people that we can shoot and kill in glorious fashion”. When the threat comes not from enemy people, but from our own nature, we find it much harder to rise to the occasion. Where is the glory in recognizing the folly of our own greed and profligacy? Leaders are not elected on such things. We want leaders who will give us more, leading us ever onwards, upwards and into the grave....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/04/climate-change-crisis-environment-politics
Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions
The Siberian heatwave of 2020 led to new methane emissions
from the permafrost, according to research. Emissions of the potent greenhouse
gas are currently small, the scientists said, but further research is urgently
needed.
Analysis of satellite data indicated that fossil methane gas
leaked from rock formations known to be large hydrocarbon reservoirs after the
heatwave, which peaked at 6C above normal temperatures. Previous observations
of leaks have been from permafrost soil or under shallow seas….
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