Compilation: Methane Time Bomb EMERGENCY (From Death Spiral Meltdown of Arctic Ice)

Glenn MacIntosh | June 12, 2011

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Click play to watch all the Arctic Meldown, Methane Time Bomb Emergency playlist videos in a row. Use the 'next' arrow (second from bottom left) to skip along as desired, or use the 'playlist' icon (first of the bottom right icons) to reveal thumbnails. Or View the full playlist in list format on our YouTube channel, seeactinspire.

 

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Updated: Jan. 18, 2013

 

Nutshell

Watch the first two videos above for a general summary of the Arctic meltdown/methane 'time bomb' EMERGENCY. Watch the third video to get a sense of the perilous rate at which the meltdown process has become a 'death spiral' -- especially from 15:00 - 19:00. Then read the articles linked at the end of this post for more about:

  • Methane, a carbon molecule 25-33 x more potent as a global warming (heat trapping) gas than CO2 over a 100 year time horizon, but 72-100 x more powerful over 20 years(!)
  • Permafrost contains 1.5 TRILLION TONS of frozen carbon, about twice as much as is contained in our entire atmosphere
  • Melting/destabilization is already causing more and more methane to vent from its safe, frozen state EVERY YEAR
  • This would result in the release of at least 100 BILLION tons (a lot) of carbon by 2100 and 2/3 of the stored deposits by 2200
  • CO2 emissions are cumulative. Even if we could reduce them to zero this minute, inertia from the 30 to 40-year lag between the release of heat trapping gases and the time it takes for that energy to force itself into the climate system (oceans), would continue to warm the planet. Global average temps would still rise for decades and any reduction in global temps from a future peak (if a runaway tip was somehow avoided) would take hundreds of years.
  • International climate negotiations can't even find agreement on inadequate emissions reduction targets based on flawed climate models and dangerously outdated science that doesn't include feedback loops, the main driver of the climate crisis, let alone the catastrophic threat of Arctic feedbacks outlined above (which, based on current negotiation parametres, are not even under consideration)

 

Bottom line: We've already gone way too far

RIGHT NOW, our shared atmosphere is on an accelerating course to reach a state of potentially unsurvivable, runaway climate extremes during the lives of today's children. Only EMERGENCY international action at EMERGENCY speed *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of what is already the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life EVER. (See: Climate Change Human Impact Report 2009).

 

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ecoSanity Founder Glenn MacIntosh is

a Film / TV industry escapee turned organizer, activist, advocate for emergency int'l action at emergency (warp) speed to confront the climate, energy, population, democracy, justice crises.
A proponent of peaceful civil disobedience / direct action, Glenn has been an arrested participant in Greenpeace protests outside Cdn PM Stephen Harper's res, and the fed Parliament bldgs.

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