Also remember Bush did the same for Kyoto protocol. Loop repeats again.
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I've wondered through favelas in Rio. Nice people, tasty snacks, fine views (they are on hillsides), some great music. But that was over a decade ago, I heard situation got worse again during Temer/Bolso time, hope it's improving now.
OK good, but to be really pioneering change in francophone world, they need to leave Meta too, that's what dominates.
Have been happily using bromptons for decades now, just great to get off a train in a new city and immediately start exploring, even with a lot of luggage. Only, we live in Belgium, wish eurostar would stop at Ashford station again (or even better make a passenger shuttle just Lille-Ashford, carrying bikes, with cheaper price than Brussels-London), then we might visit.
Hope it'll still keep one leg longer than the other, for coming round the mountain.
Ok, so now they have enough other big countries, time to kick out Russia which doesn't fit in a 'south' block anyway.
Split it? I hear that the Kazakh side of the sea grows again, even though the Uzbek side turned to cotton.
Methane is a big problem, tackling CH~4~ may be the only fast enough way to reduce peak warming. Also, by using up atmospheric oxisidising capacity, CH~4~ increases it’s own lifetime (i.e. the more we put in the air, the longer it hangs around) - a problematic positive feedback. First priority of course is to tackle the obvious emissions (especially from fossil installations - many in russia as well as usa) but it's still worth studying what might be done to reduce atmospheric CH~4~. Seems this proposal is not an effective solution, but partly a question of time and place .
OK so I read "Here the key concept is that some of the effects of the large herbivores, such as eradicating trees and shrubs or trampling snow, will result in a stronger cooling of the ground in the winter, leading to less thawing of permafrost during summer and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases".
I know the big impact of trees and shrubs on albedo - in spring they absorb sunlight and shake off snow, which remains on flat grassland. But regarding trampling - compaction- I'm not convinced. Winters are long and summers short, so accelerating cooling by some weeks wouldn't make so much difference, as accelerating warming in the summer - that's when the gases are released.
Anyway what we do urgently need is global science cooperation to try to save the carbon and ecosystems of that permafrost, in that spirit such projects might help to thaw geopolitical obstacles.
Where are these mammoths meant to roam ? And does anybody get why they think trampling grass and snow is going to protect permafrost ?
Thanks for the post, it's good you get more people discussing this, indeed there's a big sharing issue.
One caveat - we shouldn't generalise too much about such a big region - the west end of the Himalayas is very different from the east - the latter having much higher precipitation. So, at the western end, given the reduction in snow and ice storage due to climate change, engineered water storage within mountain valleys seems essential (who controls it is another dimension, from whether some should be constructed). At the eastern end I presume it's more about electricity (as for the mega-dam mentioned), and there are other options to make that, so it also depends on the alternatives, including in neighbouring countries to which it may be exported.
Note similar issues regarding the Nile dam in Ethiopia, or Tigris/Euphrates in Türkiye (although much less water).
OK very colourful, but what's it look like now, in January ?