tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post3734057331590935569..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: Dangerous Methane Seeping from Siberian Seabeds by Gary Houser: Shakhova and Semiletov warn that it is "highly possible for abrupt release at any time. That may cause a 12 time increase of modern atmospheric methane burden with consequent catastrophic greenhouse warming."Tenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-48031717375713804572010-07-22T08:30:59.980-05:002010-07-22T08:30:59.980-05:00Dear Lisa,
In 2007, when I read of the exponentia...Dear Lisa,<br /><br />In 2007, when I read of the exponential acceleration of the outflow of Greenland's glaciers, I had a similar epiphany, but it was only to the extent that I could see civilization's collapse due to sea level rise.<br /><br />This year, upon viewing Jeremy Jackson's Sackler Lecture, I realized that the oceans would probably die due to human abuse before sea level rise would get us.<br /><br />Thus, probable extinction.<br /><br />Now, seeing how fast temperatures are rising in the Arctic, it seems likely that it is game over.<br /><br />Nevertheless, we must continue to fight.<br /><br />The vast majority have no idea how close we are to oblivion.<br /><br />Do what you can, and appreciate the time we have left to us.Tenney Naumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-3981161085771460042010-07-21T18:08:23.136-05:002010-07-21T18:08:23.136-05:00As Hansen said in Storms of My Grandchildren, ther...As Hansen said in <i>Storms of My Grandchildren</i>, there are three sources of inertia that affect climate change: the ocean, the ice sheets and the world's fossil fuel based energy system. <br /><br />Even if we are desperate, I cannot imagine the world going carbon neutral for <i>decades</i>.<br /><br />Did you every read the Lovelock interview, the one where he talks about the first time he looked closely at the research -- he said something like "my heart sank, as if a doctor had told me I had cancer." <br /><br />Reading this makes me feel so hopeless. I know that we have to keep fighting, have to keep hoping -- but this is so unspeakably horrid. 80% of the bottom water and 50% of the surface water of their test area was "super-saturated" with methane? Oh, Tenney. Surely we are looking at an inevitable 4°C - 6°C increase.Lisa Geoffrionnoreply@blogger.com