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Around 11% of the Earth’s land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change.
Video by Daniel Nils Roberts. Made in partnership with @royalsociety
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Oh my gosh! Everyone needs to take a deep breath here. Please note: Humans and animal life need around 19.5% of oxygen to survive, anything less we suffer health issues and alike, and will eventually die. So where does oxygen come from? The majority comes from the plankton (vegetation) in the oceans and from the vegetation on land. So currently the atmosphere contains about 21% oxygen.
For healthy vegetation, vegetation to grow to its full potential, its needs around 1200 ppm of CO2 or 1% of the atmosphere. Currently the CO2 percentage is at 0.4% of the atmosphere or 386 ppm. Technically speaking CO2 is nonexistent and without CO2 (carbon) all the vegetation dies, vegetation dies, no more oxygen. Why do you think when you "talk" to your plants, the plants furnish? The plants are soaking up the higher concentration of CO2 that you are breathing on them. To put it into perspective, plant life is suffocating, it's the same as putting people at 12,000 feet altitude without supplemental oxygen. Yet we treat CO2 as a poisoning gas.
Some always defrosts every year. No big deal. Besides we are going into an ice age.
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odheeserfloens to the entire planet?
Correlations and probabilities and cause and effect are of interest to me. The splitting of the earths crust to the magma in long fissures by way of nuclear bombs has occurred in the pursuit of lithium. The effects are two fold from the Salton sea to Mojave magma fissure.
First the Salton sea over time from 2000 to 2020 went dry. But more importantly the earths atmosphere has heated up.
The North Pole was noted to diminish in its ice cap from 2000 to 2020 in an incremental fashion over time. The North Pole ice cap is kept cold by the South Pole ice cap. 10 percent of polar ice is in North Pole and 90 percent is in South Pole.
I estimate 150 to 360 years and a major polar ice depletion will cause catastrophic effects to the eco systems of the earth. Polar ice cap disequilibrium will be at its worst with heat pockets causing greater fires and greater floods and tornadoes and hurricanes.
The apparent war I saw in 1999 in federal banking regulation and the Salton indicates I may have been deceived and maybe not. The lithium wars correlated with the murders and replacement of billionaire business men like Warren Buffett circa 1990 and federal banking regulators over the years.
The escalation for war as in the 2001 deception of the Muslims in planes attacking the World Trade Center indicates the opaque block did not stand still. The opaque block is sometimes seen as the unstoppable force. They can he stopped. You have to shut off the noise. They may disappear they may have to be executed. The sheets machines where delusion of a person taunting you to fight is behind or away from a bright light.
Many of us were made infertile. Some of us were genetically altered to not really human. I was offered death once at age 13. Ruby a matriarch of a brothel and an orphanage offered me a needle with morphine and even had a wood casket brought to the front door.
The splitting of the earths crust is our coffin. Salton sea lithium production creates a myriad of effects. Fog isīŋŧ thicker and longer lasting in areas of the California southern coast Fungus is growing on some trees. It could impact fruit trees. 3 peaches for $3 dollars sale price.
I was labeled criminal by the opaque block and my medical records were written by bureaucrats with criminal intent in California ij 2001. I have been severely injured with attacks in 2001 and 2004 and 2024. The last time they really hurt me. But somehow I saw iraq and Kuwait as victimized as myself.
The truth is I want exit from life and I want change. I can likely get what I want if I go to the Muslim nations bludgeoned by the opaque block. I want a peaceful exit. The opaque block does not like to allow peaceful exit. They like warfare as it profits them financially.
A joke. In some places they cook eggs in the sand. If you put eggs in the sand over the magma crevice from Hector mine Mojave desert to south Salton sea they may be over cooked.
All I want is out peacefully.
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I remember in the early 80â scientists warning us that things need to be changed in order to avoid things just like this!! The human race is greedy , selfish and stupid
At first i thought why do they always have to make beautiful documentary sad but then i realized they made miserable story little beautiful by showing ice landscapes.
Yes we know we have got to protect the planet but that's all left for China isn't it? They are the ones making better and affordable batteries and reducing EV costs and producing them at masses while Europe and USA are throwing stones in their effort of converting global trend towards renewables just because they are not getting bigger peace of the Pie. What's the point of making documentary if they themself don't care about it.
In reality, since 1979 to 1994 the satellites that measure earth's temperatures VERY accurately say there is NO GLOBAL WARMING at all but GLOBAL COOLING to the tune of 0.13â°C. Since the global warming theory assumes there will be maximum warming at the poles why have the average temperatures in the Arctic dropped by 0.88â°C over the past 50 years? Just sayin…
Furthermore, could the melting taking place in Antarctica be due to the FACT that they have recently discovered 138 volcanos under the continent? Especially since where the volcanos are is EXACTLY where the melting IS TAKING PLACE? Could it be? Could it be? Of course it is. It's not melting due to man because the planet has cooled over 50 years. The ice is melting where ALL THE VOLCANOS ARE!!!
Absolute rubbish just fear mongering đ
Probably find dinosaurs
Better to warm than to cold
Better to warm than to cold
Carbon dioxide grows vegation
Human activities "could" turn this around conceivably. It will mean having to sacrifice the consumption-at-all-costs lifestyle that's already got people trapped. It'll mean having to give up the American Lawn Status Symbol and grow food and restore nature. That's going to be hard on some billionaires for sure. It'll mean giving up on second garages and storage facilities for all the crap we never needed in the first place. Uh, oh, panic is setting in! It might mean lowering rents and ending homelessness so that people can have time for their families, communities, and gardens. "OMG, NO!!!" screams the billionaire through fattened purple lips, his jowls rumbling in consternation, "we can never let that happen!"
Methane gases go wild!! Bill Gates, permafrost is thousands of this worse than all the cattle poop in the entire since the beginning of time!!!
I've been saying over and over… that fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, contribute to the greenhouse effects.
Carbon and methane continue to march up and up. We continue to destroy our forests. Nothing has changed.
What pathetic emotive responses some of these non scientific people have. HahahaâĻ know you know why shes a preacher. They spew emotion
The permafrost part is interesting but the climate alarmism is sure poppycock. All evidence must be presented not just the data these climate scientists want to present so they can get their grant money.
Nice warn weather in norway
You expect us to respect your professional knowledge and yet you have childish intrusive music like this? WTF??
Permafrost melts every summer. It's back to 0°C in Alaska and refreezing again. Houses built on permafrost melt the ice and sink. The TransAlaska Pipeline built on permafrost doesn't sink! Magic CO2! There is no methane in permafrost! They have deliberately conflated clathrates deep buried freezing ocean sediments.
3:00 If she thinks that is 0.6 centimetres none of her data is credible.