Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.
Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.
Fuck Russia let’s sink their shit.
Don’t worry, when the former permafrost becomes bog land the methane sink release will ignite the atmosphere.
This can happen
This is a bunch of words, but not something that we’re actually facing.
The permafrost wasn’t so much a methane sink, as a place where carbon got stored. When it warms up, the decay process can generate methane, which can then be released. Under some limited conditions, you can actually even burn it when released from natural sources like this, but that’s not usually what happens — it just floats off into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere as a whole will not ignite.