Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by fzeroracer on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:19AM (#21027652)

What if you live in an area with no AC because for hundreds of years the weather has been consistent enough to not need it?

Or what if you start experiencing massive wildfires because the seasons get dryer and dryer?

How about if you care about eating Salmon or any number of seafood dying off as a result of a warming ocean and massive overfishing?

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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by alkibiades on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:30AM (#21027801)

it’s not like this happens overnight. you can buy an AC sometimes in the next 100 years hopefully

and sure salmon thing is bad but doesn’t mean the world is ending in 12 years. which is what the activists pretend. i just want a real conversation about solutions but neither side is reasonable

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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by mturmon on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:39AM (#21027895)

If you want a real conversation, you don't start off with your original comment. The original comment was mocking the scale of the changes we face in a completely un-informed way.

So, you might want to consider what kind of discussion you really want?

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Re:Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are... by arbitrary_name on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:42AM (#21027928)

very few people are pretending the world is ending in 12 years. However, many people are talking about the fact that the world as we know it (fish stocks, stability of weather patterns for growing crops, intensity of storms, lack of snowmelt to irrigate crops in summer, and many many more) will change significantly. That includes you.

If you live in the US, you are suffering the political side effects of climate change indirectly as thousands of central American coffee farmers leave their lands and look to the north for opportunity. If you live in Europe, you are suffering the political side effects of increasing instability and resource scarcity in north and east africa, the levant and other locales.

Picture that but with millions more people; your rich country will have to divert more and more resources to either building walls or integrating the poor, all while food prices increase, natural resources are depleted, etc.

If you think living in the Bay Area, London, NY, or anywhere like that is going to insulate you from the consequences, you are really sadly mistaken.

I live in a wealthy city in Australia; we face flooding which is driving up property and insurance costs, fire which is wiping out farming land and causing air quality issues, while depleting fish stocks increase the cost of other food sources. Storm intensity is also on the rise which is causing more flooding and damaging arable land.

We can handle it, but it's more and more a cost and deadweight effect on our lives.

I urge you to isolate "what you want to happen" from "what will actually happen given the science being presented".

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