Thursday, July 28, 2011

Siberia, snow that burns, or so it appears.

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Remember the pictures of the guy lighting his fracked well water on fire at his kitchen tap?  Here a man sets the snow on fire in Siberia.  Methane. Methane trapped in the permafrost tundra and peat is being released due to warm summers and milder winters.  The second picture is a peat/tundra fire in Alaska.
 Methane has far more impact on the rate of global warming than CO2.  The rate of warming will be accelerated steeply by methane release.  The feedback cycle is hard to shut down, burning tundra leaves a black landscape, drawing greater solar gain, thawing more tundra, setting more fires, releasing more methane, making the atmosphere hotter, on and on and on.
Fuck Exxon. Fuck Koch Industries.

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