Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
Source: Washington Post
Alexander Deyev can still taste the smoke from last years wildfires that blanketed the towns near his home in southeastern Siberia, and he is dreading their return.
It just felt like you couldnt breathe at all, said Deyev, 32, who lives in Irkutsk, a Siberian region along Lake Baikal, just north of the Mongolian border.
But already, this springs fires arrived earlier and with more ferocity, government officials have said. In the territory where Deyev lives, fires were three times larger in April than the year before. And the hot, dry summer lies ahead.
Much of the world remains consumed with the deadly novel coronavirus. The United States, crippled by the pandemic, is in the throes of a divisive presidential election and protests over racial inequality. But at the top of the globe, the Arctic is enduring its own summer of discontent.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/rapid-arctic-meltdown-in-siberia-alarms-scientists/2020/07/03/4c1bd6a6-bbaa-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html#comments-wrapper
We are so deeply screwed.
Another Jackalope
(112 posts)Who knew?
Estamos tan jodidos...
jalan48
(13,863 posts)Shermann
(7,413 posts)...but will probably only have a 2-3 year run.
MMGW is in it for the long haul.
I wonder if we will apply the relevant lessons learned from the anti-science pandemic response. Will the alternative news / alternative facts people be put back in their place?
Probably not.
jalan48
(13,863 posts)NickB79
(19,236 posts)Our children will think back to today as the "good old days".
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)What will make this worse though is that our population is far larger than in the past so instead of impacting a few million its going to impact a few billion and considering the weapons some of those billions have it is a bit nerve racking.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)as land life struggles to learn how to breathe methane.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)The switch is soon coming.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,149 posts)greed was more important than community
ye reap what ye sow