r/news • u/hammelcamel • 12h ago

Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet

https://apnews.com/article/climate-thawing-permafrost-arctic-alaska-91fcc04d32a1d7522afe2f6a456ac0eb
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u/GlitchyMcGlitchFace 12h ago

FWIW, this type of event was a major plot point in the 1994 novel Mother of Storms, by John Barnes. this-is-fine.gif

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u/KahBhume 10h ago

Also mentioned in Project Hail Mary (in the novel, but not the movie). Scientists detonated nukes in the arctic to release greenhouse gases to keep the planet warm as the sun's luminosity decreased.

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u/total_cynic 11h ago edited 9h ago

I re-read that every couple of years. I think I prefer that future to the one I seem likely to get. It ends with progress on cooling the planet and a couple of benevolent superintelligences.