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You are not familiar with the draining of Lake Baikal. This lake used to contain 20% of the worlds fresh water. By comparison, the combined Great Lakes hold 25% of the worlds fresh water. Overall, fresh water is 1% of the worlds available water, the remainder being saline.

For my part, I live in Michigan near the site of the largest inland oil spill.

Manufacturing really doesn't matter if we render our environment unable to support life.

From the abstract: "the thermal maximum is characterized by warming up by 3-9degreesC in winter and by 2-6degreesC in summer". So 6 degrees in prehistoric times is the relevant temperature (plus 9 degrees in winter is much less than plus 6 degrees in summer) which we surpass quickly nowadays: http://siberiantimes.com/ecolo...

Actually, trains, which to me makes more sense than cars (of course, if you're thinking longer-term, then you probably want to make it electric trains). The link is from tracing the links in TFA back to a more original source ("trains (oh and some road)" --> "road!" after sufficient iterations of teh media...)

For example, you all remember the magnificent shots of the Yamal crater in winter, made during the latest expedition in Novomber 2014. But do you know that Vladimir Putin, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, was the first man in the world who went down the crater of gas emission riding on a bear? More than this, it was very risky, because no one could guarantee there would not be Ukrainian Kike-Banderites hiding down there.'

He's just in a very deep state of meditation.

Like this guy: http://siberiantimes.com/other...

First, if this is 80 meters in diameter, or 40 meters in radius, and say at a minimum 40 meters deep, that’ s not quite 10^9 kg of soil moved up order 40 meters, requiring (very roughly) the equivalent of 60 tons of TNT, at a minimum, and thus an equivalent magnitude of ~ 3.2 (again, roughly). Such an explosion should be detectable on seismological networks, such as the ones looking for nuclear testing.

Second, there is another mystery crater in Siberia - the Patomskiy crater. This one is in rock, not sediment, is about 160 meters in diameter, and is maybe 300 years old, but I have to wonder if they have a similar cause.

Third, I am interested in quark nuggets and other types of condensed matter, such as Q-Balls, generically called Compact UltraDense Objects (CUDOs) by Jan Rafelski of U. Arizona. If these things exist in the appropriate masses, they could cause holes such as this and the Patomskiy crater. Even better, if this were to be caused by transiting CUDO, it would cause a "linear earthquake, which should be easily recognizable in the seismic record.

As soon as I see an "ibtimes" domain, I know better than to RTFA. I don't understand why /. ever posts links to their crappy sites unless they're getting kickbacks on click-throughs.

So how about looking for some alternate sources? Googling "Zeleniy Yar mummies" suggests that this isn't some ibtimes hoax after all.

This Siberian Times article seems to have the most information with lots of great pictures, the fewest ads, and other sites credit it as their source:
http://siberiantimes.com/scien...