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Some of the scientists who are given voice in ICE ON FIRE are to be found at NILU \u2013 Norwegian Institute for Air Research at Kjeller outside Oslo and UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Troms\u00f8. The crew visited Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate Environment and Climate, CAGE, to highlight the research on a very specific, but potentially globally significant climate gas: Methane.<\/p>\n
Methane is a greenhouse gas far stronger that CO2, with a lifetime in the atmosphere of around 10 years. Vast amounts of methane are trapped at shallow depths below the seafloor as gas hydrates, ice-like mixtures of gas and water. The potential abrupt future release of even a small fraction of these Arctic methane stores will profoundly change the Earth\u2019s atmospheric composition, and rapidly accelerate global warming and sea-level rise.<\/p>\n
Cathrine Lund Myhre works as senior scientist at NILU, and was invited by CAGE through the collaboration on the project MOCA \u2013 Methane Emissions from the Arctic Ocean to the Atmosphere: Present and Future Climate Effects.<\/p>\n
Working mainly with understanding of atmospheric composition and change, Lund Myhre explains that methane sources can be both natural and result from human activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cA large fraction of the methane is from natural sources that are vulnerable to climate change\u201d, she says. \u201cAccordingly, the control and mitigation of these is out of our control and must be achieved by avoiding increased temperatures on Earth. We need better knowledge about these emissions, their strength and response to climate change. At the same time, most of the emissions now, ca 60%, are from human activities, and these can be controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ice covers of our planet are tremendously vulnerable to climate change, and they control complex systems for methane release,\u201d says CAGE director Karin Andreassen \u201cWe welcome any initiatives that can shed light on the specific research that we do, because it is a part of the global conversation that we all have to contribute to.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE ON FIRE is investigating solutions and aiming for hope<\/h2>\n
\u201cWe wanted to make a film that depicts the beauty of our planet while highlighting much-needed solutions across renewable energy and carbon sequestration\u201d, says Mr. DiCaprio. \u201cThis film does more than show what is at stake if we continue on a course of inaction and complacency \u2013 it shows how, with the help of dedicated scientists, we can all fight back. I hope audiences will be inspired to take action to protect our beautiful planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film gives an insight into innovations aimed at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, which could pave the way for a reduction in the global temperature rise and a benefit to the planet\u2019s life systems.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing in front of a film camera is not every day work for me\u201d says Lund Myhre, \u201cbut the dissemination of knowledge about role of methane in climate change, and what we see in the Arctic, is important. I am very glad we got this opportunity to reach out via ICE ON FIRE.\u201d<\/p>\n Arctic areas are difficult to reach and research is both time consuming and expensive. But more ground work is necessary to inform the experimental models climate scientist rely on to make sound interpretations of the climate systems.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is crucial that we understand the methane sources, and the ratio of natural and anthropogenic changes\u201d, says Lund Myhre. \u201cThe recent increase in the atmosphere does not seem to be explained purely by emission from human activities, but these are the only ones possible to control by mitigation strategies and abatement control. Changes in natural systems are harder to predict, and very difficult to control, so we must take action where we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ICE ON FIRE is directed by Leila Conners and will premiere at 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Wednesday May 22, and on HBO June 11. \u201cMy partners and I made ICE ON FIRE to give a voice to the scientists and researchers who work tirelessly every day on the frontlines of climate change,\u201d says producer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsarchive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11893,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions\/11893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cathrine](\"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cathrine-Lund-Myhre-interview_ICEONFIRE_800cut.jpg\")
Monitoring, observations, modelling crucial for future<\/h2>\n