This is one we’re not going to be able to duck. We can’t kick this can down the road. It’s already underway, one of the knock-on effects of existing global warming. It is the thawing of the permafrost across the far north. And it’s going to cost us dearly. Dmitry
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The Disaffected Lib: All that Fuel Just Sitting There Waiting to Burn
It was so much easier when you could think of the Arctic as white, covered in a crisp layer of snow and ice. Today you have to think green as in vast tracts of ice-free ocean and exposed tundra and permafrost. The tundra, largely frozen peat, is thawing and drying
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Lurks Beneath?
Let’s be fair. Climate change isn’t all bad. Then again, it’s a safe bet that Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to the Ford Theatre was pretty decent right up to the point of that gunshot. One of the good things about global warming, we’re told, is that it will make cold
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Tundra is Fuel and It Will Burn Us
We hear a lot about the tundra that blankets the far north thawing due to global warming. As it thaws it releases previously trapped methane and CO2. Well it does more than that. As tundra thaws it turns into fuel for wildfires. And let’s put it this way, fire fighting
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