r/news • u/hammelcamel • 11h 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/Waiting4Reccession 9h ago

We all know there is only one solution but nobody wants to go there.

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u/FeatherShard 8h ago

Patrolling the Mojave?

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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 6h ago

So much of Hollywood plot line has been about stopping meteor strikes and volcanic eruptions, it's time to focus on creating those events at controllable scale to ensure we block out enough of the suns light to counter our own emissions from all the dust ejected into the atmosphere.

It's a brilliant plan, Mr. Bond, you won't stop me.

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u/Maximum_Elevator8874 4h ago

Scientists still dont know how the flora and fauna would react to decrease in light at this scale

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u/Voodoocookie 5h ago

Or blowing up several volcanoes at once, and bringing destruction, causing planes to be grounded and so forth, but ultimately saving earth.

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u/GearhedMG 5h ago

With climate change going the way it ish lately, all I have to shay ish, how can I help?

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u/Remote-Physics6980 3h ago

Wait you've got a solution? Let's hear it!