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"Even more worryingly, the Arctic also holds large reserves of methane, in the form of clathrates—icy, lattice-shaped chemical structures known as “the ice that burns.” (There's about a million acres in Siberia burning right now)
"Others took even longer to be convinced: Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finally accepted that humans were changing the Arctic in 2008. Soon thereafter, however, things began happening so fast that only paid lobbyists, and those deluded by them, were denying the facts."
"...in 1980 Arctic summer ice covered an area around the size of the contiguous United States, minus Arizona. By 2012, it covered only 46 percent of that area..."
Looks like Musk Ox are going to be extinct before too long, that's a large part of what the article is about.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/08/16/arctic-big-melt/
"Others took even longer to be convinced: Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finally accepted that humans were changing the Arctic in 2008. Soon thereafter, however, things began happening so fast that only paid lobbyists, and those deluded by them, were denying the facts."
"...in 1980 Arctic summer ice covered an area around the size of the contiguous United States, minus Arizona. By 2012, it covered only 46 percent of that area..."
Looks like Musk Ox are going to be extinct before too long, that's a large part of what the article is about.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/08/16/arctic-big-melt/