The polar bears seem unconcerned with this development...
Posted on 09/16/2007 8:08:52 PM PDT by camerakid400
DUVANNY YAR, Russia (Reuters) - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.
"It smells like mammoth dung," he says.
This is more than just another symptom of global warming.
For millennia, layers of animal waste and other organic matter left behind by the creatures that used to roam the Arctic tundra have been sealed inside the frozen permafrost. Now climate change is thawing the permafrost and lifting this prehistoric ooze from suspended animation.
But Zimov, a scientist who for almost 30 years has studied climate change in Russia's Arctic, believes that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will accelerate global warming faster than even some of the most pessimistic forecasts.
"This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop," he said.
When the organic matter left behind by mammoths and other wildlife is exposed to the air by the thawing permafrost, his theory runs, microbes that have been dormant for thousands of years spring back into action. Continued...
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Do you have to be so crude about it?
Wholly crap!!
Hey, I just took the headline from HotAir.
So why didn’t these microbes in mammoth poop cause global warming when the mammoths were alive? Now all of a sudden they’re going to cause global warming?
How is this different than all the animal & humas waste we deal with now? Is this some sort of “Super Dung” that can really effect the weather????????
I think not. This guy is drinking the Gore Kool Ade.
In reality, a lot of that organic matter is busily converting to crude oil, which might help explain why Russia is one of the world’s argest producers of oil and natural gas.
As to the claims about the aroma of mammonth poo...who can say for sure, since the mammoths haven’t made a fresh deposit in several millennia...???
Who changed my headline???????????????????????????????????
“It smells like mammoth dung,” he says.
This whole ‘report’....smells like dung!
LOL
And how does this guy know what mammoth dung smells like?
Maybe he was smelling a mammoth (read: enormous) dung?
In any event, sounds like a load of crap to me.
Forget man. I’m not measuring his testicles...
Dude, you’ve been modded!
FR is a classy place. Your headline lacked a bit of
‘savoir faire’, as it were. ;-)
If you link to a Reuters article, use a Reuters headline, please.
maybe if liberals pay some $ to the united nations for
do do credits
it will alleviate the problem.
/s
Global warming causes uncovering of mammoth dung which causes .... global warming.
Talk about circular reasoning...
I suppose it never occurred to this joker that if mammoth dung causes global warming, how come the dung is frozen?
It sure didn’t prevent the last ice age. And I saw a caption on a different global warming thread that said the melting glaciers may postpone our next ice age by 500,000 years.
That ought to satisfy those lunkheads who were yelling about the looming Ice Age back in the 1970s.
There is always climate change. What is optimal? What are we permitted to alter? And why are all the socialists lined up in agreement on this one?
I would be much more worried about the release of bacteria, parasites, etc, that humans have not been exposed to for tens of thousands of years.
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