Posted on 02/25/2017 7:40:58 PM PST by combat_boots
A doorway to 200,000 years ago.
It's no secret that Siberia's permafrost has been on thin ice lately. Conditions are varying so much that huge holes are appearing out of nowhere, and, in some places, tundra is quite literally bubbling underneath people's feet.
But new research has revealed that one of the biggest craters in the region, known by the local Yakutian people as the 'doorway to the underworld', is growing so rapidly that it's uncovering long-buried forests, carcasses, and up to 200,000 years of historical climate records.
Known as the Batagaika crater, it's what's officially called a 'megaslump' or 'thermokarst'.
Many of these megaslumps have been appearing across Siberia in recent years, but researchers think Batagaika could be something of an anomaly in the region, located around 660 km (410 miles) north-east of the region's capital city of Yakutsk.
Not only is the crater already the largest of its kind, almost 1 km (0.6 miles) long and 86 metres (282 feet) deep, but it's getting bigger all the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Ah! A new band name!
It’s Joy Behar sticking out her tongue!
Fill it in with liberals and then cover with cement.
But if you bother to read further, this little factoid in the middle of it totally destroys the AGW crap:
"The crater formation first started after a large chunk of forest was cleared nearby in the 1960s. Because the ground was no longer shaded in the warm, summer months, it heated up more rapidly than it had in the past, eventually causing the permafrost to melt and the ground to collapse."
In other words, "OOPS! Ignore what we just said above about AGW being the reason for this collapse."
So is this proof that is was much warmer 200,000 years ago? I think yes.
Seems to me it is likely that this process is what made the GRAND CANYON. The Colorado River didn’t carve it out. The Colorado River is just the deepest part of the megaslump where water ended up. The river is the product of the Canyon, not the other way around.
Looks like a great SAFE PLACE to me.
The recovered DNA from the animals that died during the Ice Age should be a treasure trove to geneticists. Just maybe they can clone some of the animals that lived during that era.
Saw this a few weeks ago on Destination Unknown with Josh Gates.
His story was men cleared a spot of forest and the sun beating on the spot started the melting. Just continues to grow.
He was there with a group Mastodon bone hunting.
They found a lot. Huge curved tusks and leg bones.
Some of the group were scientists looking to extract DNA from the bones. Their idea is to create an embryo with Mastodon DNA carried by an African elephant. They are hopeful on bringing the species back from extinction.
IMO a really really bad idea.
I didn’t realize they went extinct just a few thousand years ago.
In America, We ended the megaslump when we elected Trump.
[[is growing so rapidly that it’s uncovering long-buried forests, carcasses, and up to 200,000 years of historical climate records.]]
Soooo what these scientists are now admitting, unbeknownst to them of course’ is that life was flourishing, then dangerous killing cold cam along and ruined life on earth in that part of the world, and now the climate is finally getting back to what it once was, and as a result is revelation that that the climate was much warmer there i n the past some supposed 200,000 years ago?
Do trees that large grow in permafrost?
The first assumption you have to make for that is that it was all frozen along that run. The second is that it was all soil and/or regolith. The third is that it subsequently was metamorphosed all the way up the scale to nearly granite after the fact.
That's the problem with the AGW people. They have just a little itty bitty element of truth on their side because man is perfectly capable of changing micro climates. If projected on a global macro climate scale then not so much.
The example I use is that from around 1000, the vikings had thriving vineyards in Newfoundland, which lasted about 20 years before the natives, not climate change, drove them out. They also had large dairy herds in Greenland before the little ice age arrived about 400 years later. I then ask them two questions:
What you say is true - but it also had to be a lot warmer when the forests were thriving.....meaning it got a lot colder after that particular bout of “globull warming”....good thing the folks were ignorant back then - they might have committed mass suicide.
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