[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[telescope115]

DESPITE the fact that this has nothing to do with astronomy. But, that’s NASA…

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If anyone reads the ‘Arkady Renko’ spy novels by Martin Cruz Smith, Arkady regularly p*sses off his bosses and gets banished to the Lake Baikal area/Siberia for menial police work from time to time. ;)

[Charles Martel]

Fortunately, the amount of methane currently bubbling out is not climatologically important. It is not clear what would happen, though, were temperatures to significantly increase in the region, or if the water level in Lake Baikal were to drop.

This lake, despite being in southern Siberia, is not frozen year-round. What difference does it make if the level of the lake changes, when gases will simply bubble all the way to the surface? Idiot propagandists.