Fire and Ice: Permafrost Melt Spews Combustible Methane

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/A_REALLY_Inconvenient_Truth_Dan_Miller

Environmentalist Dan Miller discusses a possible environmental threat from methane gas contained within melting permafrost. Miller claims the melting permafrost contains twice as much CO2 as Earth's entire atmosphere.

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Dan Miller's presentation focuses on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios. For example, IPCC climate models do not include the effect of melting permafrost releasing greenhouse gases, even though the permafrost is melting now and it holds more greenhouse gases than all that mankind has ever released.

Another example is that IPCC predictions of sea level rise only take into account thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of glaciers; the largest factor, disintegration of glaciers, was not included because it is hard to model. The result is that sea level rise will likely be substantially higher this century than the IPCC predicts.

Miller discusses several other potential catastrophes that are not included in IPCC predictions and also discusses tipping points that could put climate change solutions out of our reach in years or decades, the psychology of climate change, and why it is difficult for people to respond to the threat posed by a warming earth.

His talk concludes with a discussion of ways to address climate change and the risks and opportunities that companies face due to the climate crisis. - Berkeley Cybersalon

Dan Miller is Managing Director of the Roda Group. He is the former president of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a Roda Group affiliate company. He is currently working with a number of Roda Group affiliated companies to assist them with their business development efforts. Mr. Miller sits on the Board of several Roda Group companies.

At the end of 1994, Mr. Miller retired from his position as Executive Vice President of TCSI Corporation (Nasdaq: TCSI), a company he co-founded with his Roda Group partner, Roger Strauch. Mr. Miller retired from the Board of Directors of TCSI in June of 1997. TCSI is a leading provider of integrated software products and services for the global telecommunications industry.

Prior to TCSI, Mr. Miller was a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft's Space and Communications Group where he was responsible for designing communications payloads for commercial communications satellites.

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[idontcare80]

@CommonRaven And what are you? A leading climatologist trolling YouTube?

I'm just baffled by people like you. Who really cares if global climate change is real or not? Our society only stands to benefit from the changes that will take place as a result of our attempts to stop climate change. Green energy, more efficient and comfortable homes, more efficient cars, less pollution, less dependence on foreign energy, etc, are all a result of people becoming aware that we are changing our planet.

[bernzeppi]

You're an idiot drtyfknidiot

yeh right all learnin' is evil... burn your books!

You're a Nazi retard

Oxygen thief.

[RagnarokCro]

@idontcare80

yes, i meant the other gas, forgot the name

[idontcare80]

@RagnarokCro CO2 causes warming, not cooling.

[RagnarokCro]

@idontcare80 I think that the dinosaurs invented the wheel and they were spending too much fuel on cars and then they poluted the atmosphere with Co2 so the sun could not radiate through the thick Co2 and that is why there was an ice age obviously.

[idontcare80]

@RagnarokCro What are you talking about?

[RagnarokCro]

@idontcare80 what caused the ice age then? Dinosaurs with what?

[cmasiero]

Its to late. We have only a short window of 2 years, and that is just to buy us more time. Those little openings he is talking about, are now in excess of 1km.

[jeeraff]

if that ever goes ..if this ever happens..if that ever happens ...fear mongerers are everywhere ,,the earth all of sudden is going to shit its self and kill us all ,what a load of crap this is nature and normal ,,current temp at the north pole -25C and the south pole -35C nothing is melting global warming and climate change is bullshit

[qubenzispsyaudio]

Neo Inquisition by the CO2 Priesthood

[eretrece]

Some say the world will end in fire

Some say in ice

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favour fire

But if I had to perish twice

I think I know enough of hate

To say that ice is also great

And would suffice

- Robert Frost

[SteamMonkey115]

The real problem is that Methane gas stuck underneath the ice. When the ice retracks or for you huggers "melts" it will relase the presurrue and will met hot  air and boom ded.