Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Analysis: Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter

Seeping pustules with a silver lining.

The frightening effectiveness of modern disinformation systems is illustrated very clearly in the second graph contained in the article below.
Climate Change Rises as a Public Priority. But It’s More Partisan Than Ever.

The rate of global warming in the Arctic is about twice as fast as the global average. You can see how this global heating is affecting sea ice extent on this impressive map visualization from Aftenposten. The article accompanying the map is in Norwegian but you don't need to speak Norwegian to appreciate the impressive interactive map.

As you scroll through >The Arctic is Melting< a map of the Arctic visualizes the level of sea ice extent over time for every year since 1985. The purple colored areas on the map show the thin ice that melts in summer. The white ice shows the thicker perennial ice, which has visibly shrunk in just the last decade. In recent years the ice in the Arctic has become younger and thinner. This means that the ice melts faster and earlier every year.

It's amazing how all those glaciers cracking off are making the world warmer.

WP

But what the ****. Boston is old. Capitalism thrives on creative destruction.

PS.... I'm actually refusing to go back to the beginning of this thread (or to other discussions on GW that we have engaged in over the last 25 years) because I would be tempted to murder people who we still are in debate with on this.

I think a good, violent murder fantasy sometimes adds a little spring to my step.

These day, mine feature drones.

Have you seen the movie “Angel Has Fallen”? Beautiful use of hordes of mini attack drones.

Sea level rise--which will quickly trash Miami--will probably be one of our lesser worries. There are an aboriginal people in the Russia arctic called the Nenets. They are reindeer herders. Thawing tundra released anthrax spoors in 2013, and more than 2300 reindeer died, and one of their children. This NBC story is about a second outburst of anthrax when some of the reindeer killed by the earlier outbreak thawed in the much warmer climate of western Siberia. A few months later, the Russian government killed 250,000 reindeer totry to contain the spread of anthrax.

There any number of bacterial spores and viruses out there just waitnig to thaw out. Enjoy!

since its a bacteria, Pasteur discovered that we can confer immunity by low doses of live cell or acellular vaccines. We cause a low strain of anthrax which confers immunity which causes immunity in offspring in about 85% Its a way that weve done in many bacterial infections.
Why aren't the Russians doing anything? or are they?
Hell weve got all these new recombinant forms of vaccines or inhalants or topical sprays (deliver em by chopper).

Maybe the Russians are confusing anthrax with stuff like CWD or "mad cow", those are virus or prion disease and will require evolution to interfere by "discovering" whether theres a genetic variant that is immune. We should be out there immunizing our caribou because weve got similar environments in our High Arctic

They killed off 250,000 reindeer, and they immunized 800,000 more. I just wanted to brighten everyone's day with the prospect of other bacterial and viral conditions spreading as the permafrost melts.

the muck soils left behind will make excellent growth media for onions and leeks and garlic.
That should help cheer up our outlook

I have not seen that film. But I have seen a number of videos of what engineers are working on and the potential for misadventure is scary.

Excellent premise for a sci-fi film. Advanced alien race stripping the now-humanless planet for exotic cooking ingredients. If I was doing visual design, I'd have the aliens vaguely Italian.

big handle bar moustaches, three sexes

Is that the porn version?

Just by the by... we are suddenly getting a LOT of promo at our house here advertising alluring cruise ship voyages. Caucasian types visiting Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea seem to be a theme.

How much land area are you proposing could be vaccinated in this way?

This might seem petty - but you don't vaccinate land areas.

It's a shame when you have to explain things like that. This article gives a brief summary of the local governments efforts to vaccinate the reindeer.