I'm old enough to remember when "glacial" was a synonym for slow.
Glacier is a category of cold storage in AWS. Eventually they'll need to rebrand it to hot storage
Glacial retreat is part of the natural cycles of glaciation that our planet does. Were we fucked when the cordilleran and laurentide retreated? Absolutely not, it was disastrous for costal inhabitants though because the ocean level went up by 400 feet in the last 15,000 years. If sealevel went up 400 ft again(it won't, only around 230ft is possible) the Statue of Liberty would be under 100' of water.
The methane releasing from the permafrost should be more alarming than glacial retreat. Then there is the oceans decreasing ability to store methane hydrates...
Atmospheric methane is skyrocketing and there is nothing that could be done about it, save waving a magic wand. Stop all anthropogenic methane and the methane still runs away. Stop all CO2 production and all you do is stop CO2 production.
You have no idea how fucked we are.
We’re winning on the frontlines everyone! Keep pushing them back! Make those damn dirty glaciers regret every setting foot on—wait.
We’re fucked.
I'm old enough to remember when "glacial" was a synonym for slow.
Glacier is a category of cold storage in AWS. Eventually they'll need to rebrand it to hot storage
Glacial retreat is part of the natural cycles of glaciation that our planet does. Were we fucked when the cordilleran and laurentide retreated? Absolutely not, it was disastrous for costal inhabitants though because the ocean level went up by 400 feet in the last 15,000 years. If sealevel went up 400 ft again(it won't, only around 230ft is possible) the Statue of Liberty would be under 100' of water.
The methane releasing from the permafrost should be more alarming than glacial retreat. Then there is the oceans decreasing ability to store methane hydrates...
Atmospheric methane is skyrocketing and there is nothing that could be done about it, save waving a magic wand. Stop all anthropogenic methane and the methane still runs away. Stop all CO2 production and all you do is stop CO2 production.
You have no idea how fucked we are.