As permafrost melts, prehistoric ooze could speed up global warming
Scientists warn that if exposed, microbes in organic matter could emit mass quantities of greenhouse gases into the air.
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So we're having climate change, there is a lot of negative "alarmist" views about it, and denial too, but as we see rock formations (and ice records), the changes recorded show that things happen suddenly, but after the change, conditions are different, but still there are conditions. I think the biggest problem with climate change is that people dont like change. So there is likely sea level rise, perhaps followed by ice age and sea level drop, mass extinctions etc etc but there still will be.... More
Thirty percent of the Earth's surface is land. Twenty percent of the land is permafrost. There is over a trillion tons of carbon frozen and buried in the land permafrost. More than half the land covered by the topmost layer of permafrost will probably thaw by 2050.
Much more permafrost is under the ocean, for instance an area six times the size of Germany containing about 540 billion tons of carbon off the coast of Siberia. That submarine permafrost is perilously close to thawing. Three to 12.... More
