tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post7122192116995259338..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: MUST SEE NEW VIDEO of Prof. Peter Wadhams on the Arctic sea ice and the subsea methane problemTenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-26985921564756169212015-07-06T00:48:19.259-05:002015-07-06T00:48:19.259-05:00What kind of Faustian bargain is this? Expecting t...What kind of Faustian bargain is this? Expecting the planet-raping, water destroying fracking industry to help save humanity? <br /><br />If it doesn't have a profit margin, they're not going to be interested. At best, they'd drive an agreement that would ensure that the plunder of the Arctic was all inclusive. Extracting methane would be a secondary concern with all that untapped Arctic oil just waiting to be sucked up.<br /><br />But consider this fact: the technology advocated doesn't even exist. None of the methods, procedure, practices do either. You'd have to drill hundreds of millions of wells down through the sea bed, and extract ALL of the methane. This is not a pipe dream (no pun intended), but pure fantasy. And what about the Antarctic? Methane is being released there too.<br /><br />What about studies covering disturbing the sea bed? Methane clathrates are highly unstable. The risks advocated are enormous!<br /><br />No such technology exists. Nor does any storage technology to store the extracted methane exist either. Nor does humanity even have the capacity of scale that would be required to pull this off.<br /><br />If things are going to "very bad within just 10 years" as mentioned by Wadhams - exactly how long does anyone think we have to get our act together? A technology solution "sounds nice", but is it realistic, practical and timely?<br /><br />We also lack the political leadership, funding and support to even address this problem. That situation is worsening every day as we get closer to the next (s)Election. American leadership is a total joke on climate issues and for all practical purposes, will remain that way as long as the corporations have death grip on our political process, laws and regulations.<br /><br />There is simply no more time on any meaningful level to consider such fantasies. If we were going to "fix this", we'd have started already many years ago when we first learned of how serious this was. We'd already have the solution / mitigation in hand by now and well underway, but the fact is, we haven't got anything. Absolutely nothing. No funding, no agency, no support, no technology, no leadership and no plan. Just some off-hand optimism based upon no evidence at all.<br /><br />Humans are optimistic in the face of unmitigated disasters and calamity. But that doesn't mean anything more then hope springs eternal within the species. However, in this case, hope won't solve anything. Hope is not a solution, it is a belief. A belief may be strong, but it is no substitute for action, it's just a mental state exclusive to humans.<br /><br />This is an ELE event that signifies the extinction of humanity and most, if not all of the life on this planet. I've covered this topic for years pointing directly to the scientific evidence from the scientists themselves that supports this.<br /><br />Hansen and several others have been perfectly clear - we're not going to survive 2C let alone 3C or 4C increases. While I deeply respect Professor Wadhams, I am disappointed that there is still a failure to grasp the total significance of what this all truly means. <br /><br />The world would have reacted far differently if there was a unified position coming from the world's climate scientist on what we are truly facing. To date, this has not happened and it's WAY overdue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com