Posted on 07/22/2014 4:57:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Underground nuclear tests?
Aliens, zeroing in their scopes...
Dateline next week....... Same group will blame earth AGW for a hotter sun. :)
Why would there be gas in the permafrost? Could there be old plant matter? How can there be plant matter if there is permafrost?
Global warming my rear end. THE FOREIGNERS just securing a place to hide after Lois’s email’s are recovered.
The writer just couldn’t resist blaming it on global warming!
Does water explode? Not usually.
Does salt explode? Not usually.
Does "gas" explode? Well, that sorta depends ...
Giant Radioactive moles.
It’s called a permafrost pingo. They are very common there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
New pictures of the hole in Yamal and Pingo was its name-o
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/18/new-pictures-of-the-hole-in-yamal-and-pingo-was-its-name-o/
A flip-flop on Arctic permafrost thaws actually a net cooling rather than a warming
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/18/a-flip-flop-on-arctic-permafrost-thaws-actually-a-net-cooling-rather-than-a-warming/
Probably methane hydrate same as found on the bottom of the ocean.
Reaches a saturation point then pop!
The permafrost begins inches or feet below the surface. Growth of vegetation, moss, lichens, over the summer warming, then freezes and the following season new growth flourishes over the top of the old.
So yes, there are layers and layers and layers of decaying or partly decayed matter which during the seasonal thaws releases methane, or natural gas which sometimes can ignite from lightning or other natural or man made causes.
To explode, conditions have to be right, perhaps with a cave or underground grotto with the right mixture of air and gas and a ignition source.
It could happen, but whether it happened here requires research. It does not look like much of a explosion to me..
More like a ground fart.
Yup....that’s it .......
Oh, they’re giant wormholes?
giant gophers
earth zit
Eons ago, pressure of gases built to such a extreme level that giant sandworms were blasted out of underground Siberia all the way to Arrakis. I’m reasonably certain of it.
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