Post by KT on Feb 26, 2015 11:50:18 GMT -5
Not good news that was written off almost as scientific curiosity when it happened in August: methane blow holes found in Siberia. Here's a Huffington Post article about it from August.
The indication is that this is both caused by climate change and an almost immediate trigger for more instability and probable kick off for an ice age.
Here's yesterdays news where at least 20 more blowholes were just spotted: More Siberia methane blowholes found in permafrost.
Thoughts? Reactions?
I guess an underlying question here has to do with how in an era of certain catastrophic climate instability, socio-political destabilization, continuing economic crisis, gold-rush style energy bubbles, and the like there's an increasing insistence on the part of anarchists and even "green anarchists" to take a hardline relativist position? I get that this is scary stuff. I get that there are issues with science, but this is where philosophical underpinnings should die: melting permafrost creating methane blowholes is objectively a bad sign.
The indication is that this is both caused by climate change and an almost immediate trigger for more instability and probable kick off for an ice age.
Here's yesterdays news where at least 20 more blowholes were just spotted: More Siberia methane blowholes found in permafrost.
Thoughts? Reactions?
I guess an underlying question here has to do with how in an era of certain catastrophic climate instability, socio-political destabilization, continuing economic crisis, gold-rush style energy bubbles, and the like there's an increasing insistence on the part of anarchists and even "green anarchists" to take a hardline relativist position? I get that this is scary stuff. I get that there are issues with science, but this is where philosophical underpinnings should die: melting permafrost creating methane blowholes is objectively a bad sign.
