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Hi and thanks for all you do.
I gave a short talk to Green activists yesterday on the arctic death spiral and the exponential methane releases from clathrates and tundra fully expecting them to be as aware of the danger as I am.
But here in the capital of the state that exports more coal than anywhere else on the planet, Brisbane Australia, my simple little talk was all new to them.
Now these are serious activists, they have done more to alert Queenslanders to the dangers of fossil fuel burning than most anyone else. As one young activist said, "we're so busy trying to protect farms from coal seam gas wells (our equivalent of shale gas) and nature reserves from coal mines that we don't really look at this stuff."
I fear that I may have depressed them more than I expected.
Perception of the Arctic
There was a time, not too long ago, when I didn't know the Arctic existed. Sure, I knew there was a North Pole and that it was cold there, but somehow I always thought that the Arctic and the Antarctic were the same thing, that someone had forgotten to add the Ant-. And of course, polar bears ...
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