Checking out Google earth. Looks like the Yamal Pensinsula is already covered with sink holes.
“Checking out Google earth. Looks like the Yamal Pensinsula is already covered with sink holes.”
Yeppers. It’s called a permafrost pingo. They are very common there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Newly Discovered Siberian Craters Signify End Times (or Maybe Just Global Warming); Mystery of the Siberian crater deepens: Scientists left baffled after two NEW holes appear in Russia’s icy wilderness
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/01/newly-discovered-siberian-craters-signify-end-times-or-maybe-just-global-warming-mystery-of-the-siberian-crater-deepens-scientists-left-baffled-after-two-new-holes-appear-in-russias-icy-wilderne/
Actually, these craters are not mysterious at all—there are hundreds of them all over the Yamal Peninsula and their origin has been well known for many years.
As you can see from the images in Figure 2, there are hundreds of these craters, mostly not as fresh as the recent ones, but showing the same features—a depression surrounded by a ring of raised ground. These are pingos!!
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/
Climate Craziness of the Week: Crater in Yamal caused by ‘global warming’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/15/climate-craziness-of-the-week-crater-in-yamal-caused-by-global-warming/
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/