Blame Obama:
“New study: Fracking prompts global spike in Atmospheric methane”
Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
2019-06-16 _F2A5454aaap Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit
“Just Stop Oil Activists Take Aim At U.K. Gov’t Buildings to Highlight Climate Crisis”
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“The North Sea: high levels of methane emissions”
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Oh boy! Looks like people – and I mean MANY MANY people – who got a COVID shot are dying, just not from COVID:
“Excess deaths continue”
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MONEY:
“Amitava Banerjee, clinical data science, consultant cardiologist, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London
We should have never ever have had a pandemic preparedness team that did not consider the indirect and long-term effects.
We focused on the direct effects of excess deaths from covid,
But from the beginning it’s likely the indirect effects will lead to more deaths,
And more morbidity and more economic impacts than Covid deaths itself
What I see is still a focus on the direct effects of Covid
Nobody who is in charge of the NHS, or any of the new health secretaries, are making any noises about it
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“Exceptional and record breaking heat from North Africa to Norway. Unbearably hot around the central Mediterranean especially.
Note the split in temperature in Europe with relatively cool air in the west. Intense thunderstorms can be found along the strong thermal boundary.”
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“Methane release rapidly increases in the wake of the melting ice sheets”
Excerpt:
"The present-day acceleration of Greenlands ice melt is an analogue to our model. We believe that the future release of methane from below and nearby these ice sheets is likely." Says Dessandier
Increasing methane emissions are a major contributor to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, and are responsible for up to one-third of near-term global heating. During 2019, about 60% (360 million tons) of methane released globally was from human activities, while natural sources contributed about 40% (230 million tons).
How much methane eventually made it to the atmosphere during the Eemian and Holocene deglaciations remains uncertain. Part of the problem in quantifying this are the microbial communities that live on the seafloor and in the water and use methane to survive.
But both those past deglaciations happened over thousands of years, while the current retreat of the ice sheets is unprecedentedly rapid according to the geological record."
"The projections of future climate change should definitely include the release of methane following in the wake of diminishing ice sheets. Past can be used to better inform the future."
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“A rapidly warming Arctic could loose a methane climate bomb resulting in extinction in nine years”
Larry Scrima, April 28, 2018
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“Arctic sea ice maximum at second lowest in the satellite “
“And they say I’m the crazy one!!
For that minority of us who reject both this Military Industrial Empire and its Two Party ‘One Party’ system, we are marginalized and ostracized “
https://www.nationofchange.org/.../arcticseaicenews/2018/03/ Re: posted article: https://www.nationofchange.org/.../rapidly-warming.../...and a request to clarify (I am not an expert in this areaa) but here is an excerpt from the posted article article: "The latest, from a blog called Arctic News, warns that by 2026 – that’s just nine years from now – warming above the Arctic Circle could be so extreme that a massively disrupted and weakened jet stream could lead to global temperature rises so severe that a massive extinction event, including humans, could result.
This latest blog post, written by Arctic News editor Sam Carana, draws on research by a number of scientists (linked in his article), who report on various feedback loops that will result from a dramatically warmer north polar region. But the critical concern, he says, is methane already starting to be released in huge quantities from the shallow sea floor of the continental shelves north of Siberia and North America. That methane, produced by bacteria acting on biological material that sinks to the sea floor, for the most part, is currently lying frozen in a form of ice that is naturally created over millions of years by a mixing of methane and water, called a methane hydrate. Methane hydrate is a type of molecular structure called a clathrate. Clathrates are a kind of cage, in this case made of water ice, which traps another chemical, in this case methane. At normal temperatures, above the freezing temperature of water, these clathrates can only form under high pressures, such as a 50 meters or more under the ocean, and indeed such clathrates can be found under the sea floor even in places like the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where the temperature is 8-10 degrees above freezing. But in colder waters, they can exist and remain stable at much shallower levels, such as a in a few hundred feet of water off the coast of Alaska or Siberia.
The concern is that if the Arctic Ocean waters, particularly nearer to shore, were to warm even slightly, as they will do as the ice cap vanishes in summer and becomes much thinner in winter, at some point the clathrates there will suddenly dissolve releasing tens of thousands of gigatons of methane in huge bursts. Already, scientists are reporting that portions of the ocean, as well as shallow lakes in the far north, look as though they are boiling, as released methane bubbles to the surface, sometimes in such concentrations that they can be lit on fire with a match as they surface.
As Carana writes:
“As the temperature of the Arctic Ocean keeps rising, it seems inevitable that more and more methane will rise from its seafloor and enter the atmosphere, at first strongly warming up the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean itself – thus causing further methane eruptions – and eventually warming up the atmosphere across the globe.”
That is scary enough, as a sufficient burst of methane, a global warming gas 86 times more powerful than CO2, could lead to a rapid rise in global temperatures by 3 degrees Celsius or more, enough to actually reverse the carbon cycle, so that plants would end up releasing more carbon into the atmosphere rather than absorbing it.
Is this scenario or a giant methane “burp” from the Arctic sea floor just a scare story?
Not according to many scientists who study the earth’s long history of global warming periods and of evolution and periodic mass extinction events.
As Harold Wanless, a Professor of Geology and a specialist in sea level rise at the University of Miami explains, prior warming periods have often proceeded in dramatic pulses, not smoothly over drawn-out periods.
“We don’t know how this period of warming is going to develop,” he said. “That’s the problem. The warming Arctic Ocean is just ice melting, but the melting permafrost in Siberia, and the methane hydrates under the shallow waters of the continental shelf can happen suddenly. Every model gets the trend, but they don’t give you the rate that it happens or when something sudden happens.”..."”
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When the farce elections are over and the corrupt judiciary awards America to the few billionaire fascists how many American deaths can we expect after the transition of the White House to an authoritarian?
“WHAT THE FAR-RIGHT FASCINATION WITH PINOCHET’S DEATH SQUADS SHOULD TELL US
When Trumpists use images of the “Hoppean Snake,” offering “free helicopter rides,” they’re advocating a program of extermination.”
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Now it makes sense: Ron Johnson’s new campaign ad claims Barnes would make a Wisconsinite less safe and references Waukesha parade killer whose trail was lavishly covered by Fox News for the duration showing the clearly deranged, unsafe, and unwell defendant mount his own bizarre defense
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It’s called karma. All the crap$ America’s rich having been doing to other countries all these years they are now going to do to America once the farce election cycles land us in an authoritarian hell hole.
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“We can stop future oil spills “
“California's coastline is being devastated by this oil spill. Let's make sure it never happens again – call on President Biden and Governor Newsom to stop permitting new oil and gas wells.”
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