>>13647564The real threat isn't with what can be visibly seen, but with the invisible cataclysmic outcomes faced by the planet warming.
Warming climate is causing the tundra and permafrost in Canada, Greenland, and Eurasia to thaw. Hundreds of millions of years ago, that part was a vast green land where a massive amount of life existed. Which has since died and the biomass has concentrated down there; both in forms of crude and trapped methane.
Planetary warming is causing three things that are seismically dangerous for the survival of the species:
1. The increased heat is creating ELEs for the insect population, which is vastly critical for long-term ecological stability.
2. Permafrost thawing is causing massive pockets of subsurface methane become vulnerable to release, which are links in a chain to create a positive feedback loop of planetary warming acceleration.
3. That warming, coupled with the gaseous releases, is also is causing a greater amount of heat to become trapped in the ocean. The mixture of that is through the water cycle returning to the ocean and leading to an increase in acidification. This in turn is impacting the seabed where even BIGGER pockets of methane exist, and are creating avenues for this gas to escape.
Number 2 and number 3 are basically ticking time bombs. If any one of the mega pockets of methane pop and that gas is released into the atmosphere, then you could throw 50 trillion dollars at the problem and it would be pointless. The damage would be catastrophic to the larger planetary atmospheric changes.
The planet as a whole will keep chugging and life as a whole will adapt. But our entire society, infrastructure, way of life, energy generation, storage, and consumption, is geared around the idea that atmospheric behavior will remain consistent in a specific range over a large period of time. Planetary warming creates massive spikes in this graph; very high to very low with rapidity. Human infra isn't designed for that.
