After millennia
The Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions after millennia of acting as a carbon sink, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said on Tuesday. This drastic shift is detailed in Noaa’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, which revealed that annual surface air temperatures in the Arctic this year were the second-warmest on record since 1900.
“Our observations now show that the Arctic tundra, which is experiencing warming and increased wildfire, is now emitting more carbon than it stores, which will worsen climate change impacts,” said Rick Spinrad, a Noaa administrator.
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Human-caused climate change is also intensifying high-latitude wildfires, which have increased in burned area, intensity and associated carbon emissions.
Wildfires not only combust vegetation and soil organic matter, releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but they also strip away insulating soil layers, accelerating long-term permafrost thaw and its associated carbon emissions.
In other words the news is bad bad bad.
Oh, not to worry. Soon enough Trump will remove NOAA from the surface of the planet, and we will hear no more about this. Problem solved. Right? RIGHT???
Harald Hanche-Olsen, #1 :
Yes, the problem will be solved, in a sense. Specifically, it will be solved for Trump.
I’m tentatively predicting some sort of cataclysm during Trump’s term, spawned by either climate change and/or fossil fuel depletion, that will be met by the right and its attendant nuts as signalling the onset of the Apocalypse. Watch things get real kooky real fast.
Mike B, get kooky? The very reality of Trump getting elected for a second term (or even a first) is already pretty kooky!
Thing is I think that’d probably be good for them… things get worse, then blame the Deep State/Enemy Within for it, let the pogroms begin!
Mind you, I think when the Five Year Plan fails to deliver a Great Leap Forward that might happen anyways.