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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1398101
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1398101
The Arctic Council consists of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden,
and the United States. All these countries are keepers of the arctic area and should be protecting it. Russia has a lot of the world’s permafrost, and also must be charged with responsibility in preventing the pulling of the clathrate trigger. Right now, Russia has already opened up the Northeast Passage to shipping (including lots of LNG). What possibly could go wrong?
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On the bright side Fascism will kill us all first…
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My favorite bible story is the one where Jesus says, “The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing people that Global Warming exists.”
(He said that right after he shot the BLM protestors in the temple.)
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Excellent article.
Alaska Indigenous communities weathered early pandemic disruptions to food security through their cultural values for sharing and “community-first” approaches.
Communities are the solution.
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It is a great irony that we live in country where Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Kurt Vonegut’s Slaugherhouse Five are banned, but children are allowed free access to the Bible.
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My favorite was the one about the bottomless basket…
…of deplorables
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I think the greater irony is parents willing to ban books, but not assault rifles.
(Books help young brains grow; guns actually splatter them on the floor.)
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Guns don’t kill people, books kill people.
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Reading does tend to educate, which does kill a lot of budding Republicans… so it tracks
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Someone needs to figure out a way to have communities where people aren’t involved.
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Russia is also parking a nuclear powered ship directly over massive clathrate deposit above the Eastern Siberian Sea for the purpose of providing power to the area. A recipe for disaster.
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If it’s warm enough to wear a short sleeve shirt without a jacket, how do the fish on that line dry without rotting?
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A GLOBAL THREAT MULTIPLIER:
COP26 talk – Greenland’s Tipping Point/Thresholds
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
with Jason Box & Twila Moon
@57:00 mins- the projections of the future, brace yourselves they’re like this …
the paris scenario is the lower curve and the business as usual is the upper curve
this is what negotiators here need to make sense of what is at risk is basically a governable society
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Paul Maidowski
Agree, very clear and eye-opening (COP Greeland Ice Melt) presentations. Mind-boggling changes happening. Here is good ref to “models can’t predict Greenland ice melt as high as observed” @glacierandy
Andy Aschwanden
A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea-level June 2021
https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-175/
The inability of models to reproduce historical observations raises concerns about the models’ skill at projecting mass loss. Here we suggest that the future sea level contribution from Greenland may well be significantly higher than reported in that study.
I wouldn’t bet on that just yet. See Kentucky…
I heard it was space lasers…
I think, after doing it for millennia, they have the technique figured out. Low humidity (a common condition in the summer arctic) coupled with near 24 hours sunlight, dry the salmon and char pretty effectively. What turns rancid, and some will, can be frozen in permafrost cellars a couple feet below the surface for winter food for the sled dogs, which are still a feature up there.
I’ve been there a few times serving on a Coast Guard icebreaker. It is stunning to see the changes in my lifetime. I’m thankful but saddened that I may be part of the last generation to see polar bears up close, in the wild.
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