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Siberian Permafrost Melting
TeknoHog writes "New
Scientist Reports on a remarkable runaway process of global warming
that has been going on in Siberia for the past few years. 'Western Siberia has warmed faster than almost anywhere else on the planet, with an increase in average temperatures of some 3C in the last 40 years.' As a result, a million
square kilometers (the area of France and Germany) of frozen peat bog have
been found to be melting, according to Russian and international
scientists. This releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas, which
contributes to further global warming."
... and can I tell you about another source of methane? Just ask my roommate!
"Ok, the data about the .. uh .. beachfront property in Austin is lookin like we have some extra water from somewhere. We're lookin into it and as soon as we have some good, hard data, we'll have some esplanations."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Neither did anybody else!
(Anybody who flames me for hyperbole should be shot by a potato gun firing squad.)
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
In Soviet Russia, frozen peat bog melts you!
My sig is permanently on strike.
There is already methane in the atmosphere, but at too low a concentration for us to smell.
Methane being basically fart gas, what I want to know is at what concentration will living on Planet Earth smell like being inside a fat mans pants?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
We wouldn't want any serious questions or conversation. It's much more fun to sling high school insults at a world leader. So, please, shut up.
Mod me as off topic - but hasn't GM promised to deliver the first hydrogen fuel cell car by 2010? We're still burning fossil fuels like crazy, oil topped $66 dollars a barrel today (up 50%+ vs two years ago), and the new Chines middle class is the first generation buying cars.... We're fcuked.
The Big Yuan - tracking mainland China
Gary Payton?
Enjoying your extra long summer?
Time to use the 1.7 mil exception and play for a contender. May I suggest backing up Nash at the point?
It sure amazes me that some people are still trying to push those crooked Diebold voting machines on the voting public. Those people certainly have no shame at all.
Our fearless leader has the solution for this. We can change daylight savings time so that summer last 11 months, problem solved. We wont see the effects for another 3000 years but then gas prices will begin to lower and the economy will go on the right track.
I wish I had mod points...
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
Does it run Linux?
Ironically the modding on this story (upto 6.44 EDT) shows just how political 'environmental science' can be. Bush-bashing jokes and party-line posts will get modded up to +5, while entirely reasonable posts get marked down as 'Troll' or 'Redundant'.
I thought Slashdot's moderation had gotten better of late but clearly it still needs a lot of work. And the +1/-1 model works lousily for politically charged issues -- let's hope the Slashcode crew are able to work on a new modding system before long.
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