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Permafrost thaw could release bacteria and viruses
Phys.org ^ | 10/25/2021 | European Space Agency

Posted on 10/25/2021 7:13:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Hootowl

Could release flying pizzas too...


21 posted on 10/25/2021 7:55:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (Military suicide deaths last year: 580 - by COVID:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48)
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To: Organic Panic

22 posted on 10/25/2021 8:06:10 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Give me global warming.

I’m still trying to figure out the downside of warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, lower heating costs, and flooded out leftist hell hole cities.


23 posted on 10/25/2021 8:06:32 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: LibWhacker

But if everyone wears masks, we will be protected.


24 posted on 10/25/2021 8:07:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: LibWhacker

“The propaganda is strong in that one.”


25 posted on 10/25/2021 8:12:10 PM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: metmom
I don't think we get a vote.

The sun will do what it will.

26 posted on 10/25/2021 8:13:55 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Qui is

Don’t forget the Ted Danson Doomsday Calendar giving us 10 years to live back in 1990. I remember Rush making a whole load of fun about it.


27 posted on 10/25/2021 8:19:15 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The sun won’t do much when the arctic doesn’t see it for about half the year and when it does, it’s angle of incidence is so low that it never gets to a decent amount of insolation.

The heat from the sun is just too spread out and diffused through too much atmosphere that far north to have a lot of impact on the permafrost.


28 posted on 10/25/2021 8:25:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: LibWhacker

How far towards the equator was the permafrost in the last ice age? It seems like the melting brought forth centuries of prosperity and enlightenment.

Doesn’t anyone think there is positive things happening in the world? I guess only negative.


29 posted on 10/25/2021 9:08:31 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: LibWhacker

Eskimos have been digging around in
this stuff for generations. As have
paleontologists and archeologists.
Have any died of new-found viruses
or bacteria born illnesses? If they
had, the climate change crowd would
have trumpeted the news supporting
their cause. What a bunch of hooey.


30 posted on 10/25/2021 10:45:05 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: LibWhacker

I doubt that it could be any more of a danger then the national Institute of health doing gain of function research.


31 posted on 10/26/2021 12:15:23 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Glad2bnuts
Good point. Found this on Wiki:
At the Last Glacial Maximum, continuous permafrost covered a much greater area than it does today, covering all of ice-free Europe south to about Szeged (southeastern Hungary) and the Sea of Azov (then dry land)[45] and East Asia south to present-day Changchun and Abashiri.[46] In North America, only an extremely narrow belt of permafrost existed south of ithe ice sheet at about the latitude of New Jersey through southern Iowa and northern Missouri, but permafrost was more extensive in the drier western regions where it extended to the southern border of Idaho and Oregon.

32 posted on 10/26/2021 1:19:48 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Lean-Right

Gold miners have been cutting through permafrost with steam hoses for over 100 years.
One how did all that frozen nuclear waste and abandoned nuclear submarine reactors get up under the Artic permafrost in the first place?
Just wait until they come across the massive deposits of frozen used chewing and bubble gum. We’re really gonna be stuck then. Not to mention all those abandoned aluminium trays from used TV dinners. Most insidious of all is the 127 billion tons of discarded filled S&H Green Stamp book, abandoned 1950s gas station give away items, the Air Force’s frozen nerve gas bombs, and the mountain of Edward R. Murrow’s cigarette butts.


33 posted on 10/26/2021 1:27:53 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: metmom

“I’m still trying to figure out the downside of warmer temperatures ...”

Me too. And permafrost thaw would produce more plant life which would eat CO2.


34 posted on 10/26/2021 5:01:23 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: metmom
I’m still trying to figure out the downside of ... flooded out leftist hell hole cities.

I can think of one. The leftists inhabiting those hell holes will migrate. Maybe to a locality near you.

Freegards!

35 posted on 10/26/2021 5:45:58 AM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (We are so screwed.)
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To: LibWhacker

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken


36 posted on 10/26/2021 5:48:57 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: GenXFreedomFighter

They already are.

>:(


37 posted on 10/26/2021 6:07:24 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom
"I’m still trying to figure out the downside of warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, lower heating costs, and flooded out leftist hell hole cities."

What I find curious is that the terms, "warmer," and, "cooler," are relative terms that imply an established baseline. Things can only be, "warmer," if compared to something, "cooler," and vice versa. The verbiage is easily manipulated. If one provides a baseline, "warmer and cooler," are objective terms; however, used without an established standard they are (highly) subjective terms and easily employed as part of an informal fallacy.

I have shut down every discussion, argument, debate about, "climate change," I've ever engaged in by asking what the, "ideal," average global temperature should be. If a person was given total, omnipotent control of the earth's thermostat, where should it be set? 65 deg.? 68? 72? If we are going to mobilize all of mankind, governments of every nation and global finance and industry to lower earth's temperature, shouldn't there be a target temperature we are trying to achieve? What is that temperature?

People are swept up in the emotion-driven prattle and agitprop that we are getting, "too warm," without ever stopping to think about what that actually could mean.

38 posted on 10/26/2021 6:11:41 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: LibWhacker

“I swear, they sit up nights dreaming up new ways to cry wolf.”

You’re probably right, but this one isn’t new. It gets recycled every few years and has been for I would guess about 40 or 50. I think the radioactive thing might be new, though, so I’ll give them credit for that.


39 posted on 10/26/2021 6:13:04 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: Joe 6-pack

The fact that no one will admit is that the current drought affecting the California desert is the normal condition.

The recent past (60 years?) is anomaly


40 posted on 10/26/2021 6:14:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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