[TheClimate.Vote] July 3, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
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Mon Jul 3 11:27:48 EDT 2017
/July 3, 2017/
*'Big bang' and 'pillar of fire' as latest of two new craters forms this
week in the Arctic
<http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/big-bang-and-pillar-of-fire-as-latest-of-two-new-craters-forms-this-week-in-arctic/>*
By The Siberian Times 2 July 2017 Video description
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtupbr80pE> Photos
<http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/big-bang-and-pillar-of-fire-as-latest-of-two-new-craters-forms-this-week-in-arctic/>
Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth
of new hole in river./
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Scientists have located two fresh craters formed on Yamal peninsula
this year, with the latest exploding on 28 June with the eruption
picked up by new seismic sensors specifically designed to monitor
such events, The Siberian Times can disclose.
First pictures of the large craters - or funnels as experts call
them - are shown here
<http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/big-bang-and-pillar-of-fire-as-latest-of-two-new-craters-forms-this-week-in-arctic/>,
and add to four other big holes found in recent years and examined
by experts, plus dozens of tiny ones spotted by satellite.
The formation of both craters involved an explosion followed by
fire, evidently signs of the eruption of methane gas pockets under
the Yamal surface.
People in Seyakha village heard a 'loud explosion-like bang' then
saw a fire and clouds of black smoke, according to reports.
Deputy director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute, Moscow,
Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky said: 'We heard the news (about the
new crater) from a friend who saw a flame of fire and then a rising
pillar of smoke.'
The head of Seyakha village, Igor Okotetto, confirmed he gad been
told about the explosion.
Reindeer herder Mikhail Okotetto gave details of the explosion to
Vesti-Yamal television of the explosion by phone, evidently citing
another herder close to the event.
On 28 June 'there was short but mighty fire' around 10.25 am, he said.
It was registered by seismic sensors as being timed around 35
minutes later.
'It happened some 35 to 40 kilometres north-west of Seyakha,' he
said on local TV. 'Reindeer herder Yakov Vengo has a camp there.
'There was a hill not far from the camp, and it exploded.
'There were fire, smoke and huge chunks of soil 'flying out' of the
epicentre.
'The hill has vanished.'
The account of an exploding hill is consistent with the scientific
theory that sees the craters as mainly - but not only - formed by
exploding pingo mounds.
Helicopter reconnaissance of the site shows a crater appearing in a
river, so it assumed the 'hill' was beside or abutting the river.
The crater is some 30-35 kilometres is around 100 km of Russia's new
state-of-the-art Arctic port of Sabetta.
It is in an area of crater-shaped lakes.
The second new funnel is some eight metres in diameter and 20 metres
deep and first images show a spectacular classic crater-shape.
Renideer herders are reported to have seen 'an explosion and flames
of fire' when snow still lay on the ground this year, but the exact
timing of the eruption has not been established.
This new funnel has been examined by a group of scientists led by Dr
Alexandr Sokolov, who found the funnel on 24 June during an annual
expedition for long-term monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems of Yamal.
A video of the crater was released to The Siberian Times by Dr
Sokolov, deputy head of the Arctic Research station of the Institute
of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
A mound of land along edges of the funnel confirms the fact of the
explosion, Alexandr Sokolov said.
'This plot of land was absolutely flat just two years ago. A year
ago in 2016 it bulged and we could see that soil has cracked there.'
It is believed the eruption was in the early part of this year.
'The Nenets native people told us they saw fire in winter 2017, but
it might mean January to March or April.
In other words, it exploded when snow was still lying.'
This crater is around 30 km east of the Yerkut scientific station,
and some 230 km north of Salekhard.
The Scientific Centre for Arctic Research said its sensors picked up
the latest explosion.
'On 28 June at 11.00.13 am local time, the seismic network on Yamal
recorded a seismic event, probably associated with the release of
gas,' said a statement from the institute.
'The oscillations are registered by two seismic stations located in
Sabetta settlement and in the area of the Bovanenkovskoye gas field.'
The sensors have been established amid fears that the erupting
funnels can damage key industrial infrastructure.
The craters are believed to form when underground methane gas -
trapped by permafrost for thousands of years - is released due to
the warming climate in this Arctic region and erupts inside pingo
mounds.
Scientists say several thousand pingos, many filled with gas, could
'explode' forming giant craters in this region.
Pingos are dome-shaped mounds over a core of ice.
At least ten are known to have exploded in Siberia in recent years
forming large craters, of which four have been closely examined by
scientists.
The largest, 35 metres deep and 40 metres in diameter, is close to
the Bovanenkovskoye deposit.
One sensor can analyse seismic processes non-stop in 200 km
distance around it.
Sabetta port is being built as part of a $27 billion project by
Yamal LNG on the Ob River estuary to export 16.5 million tons of
liquefied gas from the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye field.
The accounts of explosions creating the recent craters is consistent
with testimony about a bang and 'glow in the sky' seen 100 km from a
remote crater on the Taimyr peninsula in Krasnoyarsk region. This
blowout was in 2013, it is believed.
Scientist Dr Vladimir Epifanov, the sole leading expert to so far
visit the site, said: 'There is verbal information that residents of
nearby villages - at a distance of 70-100 km - heard a sound like an
explosion, and one of them watched a clear glow in the
sky.'http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/big-bang-and-pillar-of-fire-as-latest-of-two-new-craters-forms-this-week-in-arctic/
-more at:
*Discovered: 200-plus Arctic lakes which bubble like jacuzzis from
seeping methane gas
<http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/discovered-200-plus-arctic-lakes-which-bubble-like-jacuzzis-from-seeping-methane-gas/>*
By The Siberian Times March 2017
Space pictures show
<http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0905-7000-underground-gas-bubbles-poised-to-explode-in-arctic/>
the blue-tinted lakes formed in depressions caused by thawing permafrost
on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas.
A feature of these thermokarst lakes are craters or funnels in the
sediment on the floor through which they are haemorrhaging methane.
These pockmarks are similar to those found on the floors of the great
oceans.
Scientists say these leaks are year round in lakes where carbon
processing and methane emission occur even at temperatures close to zero
degrees Celcius. Detailed study of satellite data from 2015-16 has
identified more than 200 lakes which are seen as an active source of
methane emissions.
The gas is of both a biochemical nature, the result of microbial
activity released by permafrost thawing, and catagenesis, formed in deep
ground layers.
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/discovered-200-plus-arctic-lakes-which-bubble-like-jacuzzis-from-seeping-methane-gas/
more:
*7,000 underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
<http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0905-7000-underground-gas-bubbles-poised-to-explode-in-arctic/>*
By The Siberian Times March 2017
Bulging bumps in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas believed to be caused by
thawing permafrost releasing methane.
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0905-7000-underground-gas-bubbles-poised-to-explode-in-arctic/
*(video) Thawing Pandora’s Box: Paul Beckwith on Siberian Methane
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUI4IcqDEz4>*
Published on Jun 29, 2017
Epic triplet of video lectures about the new science reports from the
ESAS - East Siberian Arctic Shelf - and its thawing subsea methane hydrates.
Paul’s youtube channel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeck...
Partly based on an interview by Nick Breeze with Dr Natalia Shakhova and
Dr Igor Semiletov, published at http://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUI4IcqDEz4
*Who will pay most for climate change? South will be biggest loser
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/29/economic-cost-climate-change-southern-u-s-biggest-loser/439362001/>*
USA TODAY Runaway climate change will make the U.S. poorer and more
unequal, with the South hit the hardest, a new study reports.
In fact, the poorest third of U.S. counties could sustain economic
damage that costs as much as 20% of their income if warming proceeds
unabated.
"Unmitigated climate change will be very expensive for huge regions of
the United States," said Solomon Hsiang of the University of California,
Berkeley, and a co-author of the study.
For each 1 degree (F) rise in the Earth's temperature, scientists
believe the U.S. might see damage equal to 0.7% of the Gross Domestic
Product annually by the 2080s.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/29/economic-cost-climate-change-southern-u-s-biggest-loser/439362001/
*
**Obama Rues Loss of 'American Leadership' on Climate Change
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/world/asia/obama-indonesia-climate-change.html>*
New York Times
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday indirectly criticized
President Trump in a speech delivered in Indonesia for withdrawing
"American leadership" on climate change by abandoning the Paris accord.
"In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in
history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary
absence of American leadership can still give our children a fighting
chance," Mr. Obama said at the Fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora in
Jakarta, the capital, according to The Associated Press...
... Mr. Obama drew a sharp contrast to Mr. Trump’s "America first"
philosophy, without mentioning his successor by name. He called for
nations to come together to confront global challenges like terrorism
and climate change, and he cautioned against "an aggressive kind of
nationalism" creeping into politics...
"The challenges of our times, whether it’s economic inequality, changing
climate, terrorism, mass migration - these are real challenges, and
we’re going to have to confront them together," he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/world/asia/obama-indonesia-climate-change.html
*'Beyond frustrated': Tucson climate-change proposals from 2011 went
mostly unheeded
<http://tucson.com/news/local/beyond-frustrated-tucson-climate-change-proposals-from-went-mostly-unheeded/article_1e2f1595-eb1d-5b11-be38-59fed9a4bac3.html>*
Arizona Daily Star
Six years ago, David Schaller tried to make a difference in the climate
and his native city’s quality of life.
After a career at the EPA, Schaller was lead author of a $48,000
blueprint commissioned by Tucson for tackling climate change by reducing
emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The report’s most ambitious recommendations for laws and incentives
never became reality. Instead, economics and politics dictated a
voluntary strategy. But many of the voluntary measures weren’t fully
carried out, although the city has taken some steps toward reducing
energy use.
The agenda laid out in 2011 by consulting firm Westmoreland Associates,
which Schaller founded, went a lot farther:
- Mandatory "cool roofs" in new homes to reduce their solar heat intake.
- Limits on how long vehicles can idle in parking lots, burning fossil
fuels.
- Mandatory energy efficiency retrofits of homes and apartments when
they’re sold.
- Rebates for buyers of electric vehicles, and of new homes with Energy
Star-rated appliances.
These and 30 other recommendations filled Westmoreland’s highly detailed
360-page report to the city’s advisory Climate Change Committee...
...But Schaller describes himself as "beyond frustrated," disheartened
and disappointed at his report’s inability to gain traction back then.
"It’s been a missed opportunity," he said. "We lost six years. The fact
that they are now talking about revitalizing things is a bit of
admission there has been momentum lost."...
Schaller, now retired, said he hopes that this time, the city makes sure
that what’s approved gets done.
"It won’t happen without somebody taking ownership and assigning
responsibility ... things don’t happen by themselves."
http://tucson.com/news/local/beyond-frustrated-tucson-climate-change-proposals-from-went-mostly-unheeded/article_1e2f1595-eb1d-5b11-be38-59fed9a4bac3.html
*This Day in Climate History July 3, 2013
<http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/03/study-media-still-largely-fail-to-put-wildfires/194733>
- from D.R. Tucker*
Media Matters notes that mainstream media entities have largely failed
to point out that wildfires are likely to be more severe due to
human-caused climate change.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/03/study-media-still-largely-fail-to-put-wildfires/194733
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