Jason Box in 2014: "If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked' "

This was Jason Box in 2014 and he was hauled over the coals for it.

But he was right! And so was everyone who has been blowing the whistle about the freight train bearing down on us.

“We're fucked”

This week, scientists made a disturbing discovery in the Arctic Ocean: They saw "vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor," as the Stockholm University put it in a release disclosing the observations. The plume of methane—a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat more powerfully than carbon dioxide, the chief driver of climate change—was unsettling to the scientists.

But it was even more unnerving to Dr. Jason Box, a widely published climatologist who had been following the expedition. As I was digging into the new development, I stumbled upon his tweet, which, coming from a scientist, was downright chilling:

If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we're f'd.

— Jason Box (@climate_ice) July 29, 2014....[ ]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvb3pa/if-we-release-a-small-fraction-of-arctic-carbon-were-fucked-climatologist?utm_campaign=sharebutton&fbclid=IwAR2bs7LLJrkLfzcamxDVmED0Mc6AARoLBkHjhpB1nbVV03rLXl8mJMJxLQs