This New York Times video seems to quite clearly answer this question.
Geo-political round up and akin
In this new blog I introduce you to important news stories that you may never have heard about or seriously considered before. You will notice that I put emphasis on subjects relating to international politics and the potential for war. This includes the politics behind the development of new highly destructive international weaponry. You will find a few of these links are a little dated but I do not feel that this is detracts from their potential reader interest. I intend to update this list from time to time.
Begin your reading experience here:
1] Does Australia need a nuclear arsenal? And what would be the cost?
3] Trump is Forcing China to Reassess its Strategy
4] Trump spoils Xi’s Belt and Road Forum, without even attending
5] US Submarines to Field Hypersonic Weapons in 2025
6] How China fooled Donald Trump
7] South China Sea: Deterring a Fait Accompli
8] In Korean War Commemoration, Xi Warns That China Will ‘Use War to Prevent War’
9] Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise
10] India’s First Indigenous Air-Launched Radar-Killing Missile Is Headed For Service
11] Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds
12] The Real Strategic End Game in Decoupling From China
13] You Can’t Imagine World War III Between America and China
14] America’s Startling Short Range Air Defense Gap And How To Close It Fast
15] U.S. won’t ‘tiptoe’ around China with Asia stability at threat: defense chief
16] China and U.S. clash again on trade and regional security
17] Twitter-post garbage the clearest sign yet of desperation in Beijing
18] Just like Trump’s tariffs, China’s trade attack will backfire
19] Tightening the Chain: Implementing a Strategy of Maritime Pressure in the Western Pacific
20] An India-Australia-France Trilateral Dialogue Is Overdue
21] China’s Hong Kong security laws could lead to ‘complete decoupling’ from US
22] China and Iran: Joining Forces to Beat U.S. Stealth Fighters?
23] Pentagon secretly struck back against Iranian cyberspies targeting U.S. ships
24] Russia and China Go War Against America. Here’s What Could Happen Next
25] Australia may need to consider nuclear weapons to counter China’s dominance, defence analyst says
27] Chinese Nuclear Armed Submarines in Russian Arctic Ports? It Could Happen
28] Sanctions: the new economic battlefield
29] America vs. Russia and China: Welcome to Cold War II
30] The Army’s ‘Big Six’: America Plan to Wipe Out Russia or China In a War
31] The Ultimate Way to Deter China: Why Island-Chain Defense Can Work
32] China vs. Japan: Is the East China Sea Showdown Back on?
33] Is Russia Having Second Thoughts About Integration With China?
34] Why the China-Russia Alliance Won’t Last
35] Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China’s economy and may trigger central bank response
36] Nuclear Holocaust: If an Israel vs. Russia War Broke Out in the Middle East
37] As China and the United States fight for global dominance, is Australia’s safety at risk?
38] The Limits of the Alliance Between China and Russia
39] NATO needs to address China’s rise, says Stoltenberg
40] Indo-Pacific security should also be a European affair
42] The bitter reality is the Morrison Government doesn’t know how to deal with China
43] Why China’s Premature Bid for Hegemony Is More Fragile Than You Imagine
44] The Kremlin Hierarchy Is Fast Decaying
45] So Much for Suez: What Britain’s Tanker Crisis with Iran in the Gulf Really Means
46] Chinese construction boom in Cambodian town raises fears of secret military pact
We are all interested in the devastating Australian fires but how about us also seriously thinking about the massive melting of harmful permafrost in Canada and Russia too?
I hope that you do not mind me sharing this issue with you at this time. Even if you disagree with my position I think that we all should at least be seriously thinking and talking about it and certainly not play politics with the subject.
If you read the literature carefully you will find that this melting permafrost in Canada [also including Russia and elsewhere] is far more likely to adversely impact on the planet than widespread forest fires in various nations as has been happening in recent times. With global warming both disasters go hand in hand! Also see my blog Omnicide who is responsible for the greatest of all crimes generally relating to this same subject.
I will leave it to the following story about this subject to talk for itself:
Quote:
” ‘It scares me’: Permafrost thaw in Canadian Arctic sign of global trend
…”It scares me,” said Kumari Karunaratne, a permafrost expert who works for the Northwest Territories Geological Survey. “This methane that’s being released is being released over huge areas across the north. And it’s continually seeping out.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. So, as climate change speeds up the permafrost melt, the permafrost melt will exacerbate climate change. By exactly how much, it’s impossible to say. Karunaratne won’t even try to guess, because measuring it is difficult and imprecise. The area where it’s happening is vast and much of it remains uninhabited and unexplored. But there are dramatic examples that show just how much methane is bubbling up from underground. Some lakes in the Arctic are so full of it, if you punch a hole in the ice you can light the escaping gas on fire. YouTube has videos of researchers and others doing it in Alaska and Siberia. But the same thing is happening in the Northwest Territories.
There are other problems, too.
Last summer in Siberia, the unusually intense summer heat melted the permafrost, exposing a reindeer carcass that had been embedded in it. That carcass was infected with anthrax, a deadly bacteria that had been locked in the ice. A 12-year-old boy died after being infected and at least eight others were sickened. It opens up the possibility that other dangers could be unleashed. Siberian researchers say a gravesite in one town contains bodies of people who died of smallpox in the 1890s. They were buried in the soil just above the permafrost, which is now melting. That’s raising fears that smallpox, which was eradicated globally in 1977, could make a comeback. A woman stands with reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets region of Siberia, Russia, where a 12-year-old boy died and 20 people were infected in 2016 after an anthrax outbreak. An unusually intense summer had melted the permafrost, exposing a reindeer carcass containing anthrax.
Sergey Netesov, chief of the virology laboratory at Novosibirsk State University, told the Siberian Times newspaper that there are thousands of graves in the region — some human, some cattle. The recent anthrax outbreak, he said, is “reason enough to finance research into the diagnostics and prevention of exceptionally dangerous infections.” Whether that happens or not, people in the Northwest Territories know they have no power to stop climate change. Global temperatures are already at record levels and the polar regions are feeling the effects more dramatically than anywhere else. “There are really remarkable changes that are happening in a short amount of time,” said Karunaratne.
And there’s likely more to come.”…”
Also see the story that respected Skeptic allowed to be published in it magazine in 2008 entitled “How We Know Global Warming is Real. The Science Behind Human-induced Climate Change”
(In this instance I do not see that the age of this document is relevant)
Important update from The Diplomat August 1st 2020
…as well as this BBC Science article and this one too.
…as well as this one too