Well, honestly no big impact on the climate. Since the pipelines were not active the gas coming up from the ocean floor is the pressurized gas in the pipeline to maintain the pipelines integrity, that outpouring will soon cease.
More gas is vented to the atmosphere from natural sources and the unburned remnants from wells that regularly burn off excess gas when there isn’t enough storage or pipeline capacity to use it.
However, that gas will be, is being, replaced with seawater at pressure. Since this is, to my knowledge, an totally new type of disaster the long term damage to the pipeline is unknown. But I’ll bet that even if the War ended today, those pipelines won’t be supplying Natural Gas to Europe any time this coming winter. Speaking of winter, bearing down on us as we watch, very soon the weather in the North Sea will preclude any work on repairing those pipelines.
Natural Gas is a commodity, if the price skyrockets worldwide then the price paid here this winter will also increase. More of those LNG tankers will be heading to Europe and leave many areas especially in the Northeast begging.
Now do you care about this criminal act?
On the North River 
insane bastardy.
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Any opinions on ‘Who’?
Seems to be the 64 thousand dollar question.
Since Blofeld is a fictional character (I think) and this was not a amateur hour feat, then who done it? I’d dismiss any European government. Likewise Russia. So I’d say it’s down to the USA, China or Ukraine.
Ukraine would be risking a lot to stab it’s Western lifeline in the back like this.
But there has been one important factor that hasn’t been brought up that I’ve heard. That stretch of water has been one of the most watched and listened to navigational channels in the world; surface and especially subsurface. The SOSUS barrier is still in operation I believe. And as long as Russia has nuclear subs and missile-boats it will continue to listen. Someone working underwater approached, did the deed and escaped. Probably all underwater.
So I believe that someone does know who did this.
Unfortunately it makes it more likely that the culprit is the United States.
What I’d give to get Milley in a room for a few hours and sweat the truth out of him.
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