Permafrost melt- carbon release

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Scientists have worried for years that rising temperatures will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, accelerating the pace of climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing below lakes is even more dangerous.
That's the finding of a new paper published as part of a 10-year NASA collaboration to study how climate change will play out in the icy Arctic region

Fucking Trump.

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[Leonthecat]

Poor Tom.

[sear]

There are a variety of influences on planetary climate, both natural, and not.

It's the anthropogenic climate influence we have rudimentary political policy control over.

BUT !!

Since political control over anthropogenic climate change is imperfect, is it a bad idea to take up that slack by addressing what otherwise would be considered natural influences?

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Nothing new here, permafrost scares go back a long long time.

https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/...am-of-the-day/

[ThatOwlWoman]

Then there are horrors that appear from the melting permafrost like this one:

"At least 40 people from nomadic communities in northern Siberia have been hospitalized amid an anthrax outbreak that scientists believe was caused by thawing reindeer carcasses.

"Northern Siberia has been hit with a bout of weird weather, including a heatwave that has led to record-high temperatures. In the Yamal tundra, which sits above the Arctic Circle, temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the average of 77 degrees this time of the year. Scientists have linked the heatwave to climate change.

"The warm temperatures caused the region's permafrost — a layer of permanently frozen subsurface soil — to thaw, unleashing the deadly bacteria. Scientists believe the melting unearthed the frozen carcass of a reindeer that died in the last anthrax outbreak in 1968."


https://news.vice.com/article/reinde...russia-siberia

[Irish Exit]

Then there are horrors that appear from the melting permafrost like this one:

"At least 40 people from nomadic communities in northern Siberia have been hospitalized amid an anthrax outbreak that scientists believe was caused by thawing reindeer carcasses.

"Northern Siberia has been hit with a bout of weird weather, including a heatwave that has led to record-high temperatures. In the Yamal tundra, which sits above the Arctic Circle, temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the average of 77 degrees this time of the year. Scientists have linked the heatwave to climate change.

"The warm temperatures caused the region's permafrost — a layer of permanently frozen subsurface soil — to thaw, unleashing the deadly bacteria. Scientists believe the melting unearthed the frozen carcass of a reindeer that died in the last anthrax outbreak in 1968."


https://news.vice.com/article/reinde...russia-siberia

Of course a lot of the weird crap they find as glaciers retreat wouldn't have been there but for the fact that the glaciers weren't always there--like big wooly elephants