I thought Antarctica was.
It's his fault, of course!
What will happen to world turnip consumption now!!!
The discovery was made by Sergei Kirpotin at Tomsk State University in western Siberia and Judith Marquand at Oxford University and is reported in New Scientist today.
Dr Kirpotin told the magazine the situation was an "ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming". He added that the thaw had probably begun in the past three or four years.
"This is a big deal because you can't put the permafrost back once it's gone. The causal effect is human activity and it will ramp up temperatures even more than our emissions are doing."
So it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, about the same time that the caucasoid Kenniwick Man appeared in North America. hmmmmm, think of that.
And Kerpotin just discovered that this has been happening for 3 or 4 years? Don't people live in Sibe ria that would have noticed right away?
Kerpotin says, "undoubtedly connected to climatic warming". Undoubtedly? "The causal effect is human activity." Undoubtedly!
Perhaps mother earth is only now reversing the damage Kenniwick Man caused.
http://www.heartland.org/archives/environment/apr02/humans.htm
Humans bring end to Ice Age disasters
by S. Fred Singer Ph.D.
During an Internet debate in February [2002], federal climatologist Michael McCracken (not a global warming skeptic) revealed that rising CO2 concentrations may have banished forever the disastrous Ice Ages that have bedeviled the Earth for the past few million years.
Scientists generally credit human activities, especially fossil fuel burning, for the atmospheric build-up of CO2. Plants need CO2, and synthesize their food from it.
So humans appear to be saving the planet not only from disastrously low levels of CO2 (which atmospheric concentrations approached at one point in the past few hundred thousand years), but also from the scourge of Ice Ages that have dominated climate for the most recent few million years.
The warming trend seems to be particularly intense in Siberia. The polar ice cap in summer now almost totally withdraws from the north Siberian coast, except in one spot. Soon in summer, it may become a navigable water way.
The best scene is when the dumbass ultra-liberal loudmouth Hollyweird actor who "plays the President on TV" is eaten by cannibals.
Too bad they won't be making a movie of this book.
lol! it's bush's fault ping
I'm sure they'd just hate it if their temperatures got above freezing in the winter. We are supposed to worry about this?
It may indeed be thawing in places but for how long have records been kept ? Could it be something that happens every so often or is it truly a new event ?
And I was always told that "they weren't making any more waterfront property."
News Flash from outside of this world!
Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined
Guess driving those SUV's on the Sun is really screwing it up. Need to pass law to only allow SUV driving on Sun during nighttimes.
Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field … for a supposedly “dead” planet
Uh Oh, Global Warming here caused by humans is creating Global Cooling on Mercury! Maybe we should send Mercury a few herds of cows to increase the methane levels.
Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years
Obviously caused by humans here on Earth, specifically located in No. America.
Earth: Substantial and obvious world-wide weather and geophysical changes
But we knew that- all human caused, obviously. Couldn't possibly be part of a natural cycle.
Mars: “Global Warming,” huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps
We're not only despoiling our own planet but causing major distruptions on our neighbors also.
Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds
Probably where all our ozone went when we drove it off by driving all those nasty SUV's. When will we ever learn?
Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only ~20 years, accompanied by surprising surge of X-rays from equator
How much more evidence is needed to prove that all those human X-rays machines, mammograms, CAT scans, MRI's and other such stuff is killing Saturnians?
Uranus: “Really big, big changes” in brightness, increased global cloud activity.
What more can you say about clouds around Ur Anus (other than they're probably methane from farting cows on Earth)?
Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness.
Probably due to reflections of the sun off all the bald heads of humans lounging around the beach, contrary to all the dire warnings about UV caused cancer.
Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun.
Obviously we're driving even the planets away from us! We're sending it so much stress, its blood pressure is rising. Quick, remove all the salt from Pluto and send blood pressure meds.
As an alternative to "the sky is falling and humans are the cause" theory, maybe it would be good to look at the big picture and realize that maybe... just maybe, the Solar System is cycling through its changes. And being a small, miniscule piece of protoplasm that humanity is in the really big picture, maybe mankind just isn't the cause.
Jeez, these people have supremely big egos... like those who knew that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. And that it was flat, too!
What maroons!
Note: All of the above solar system changes are not fantasy or theory but facts and scientific data, from a variety of highly credible institutions (including NASA itself). This material has been publicly available for nearly a decade in some cases.
Where are they going to put the gulags now that Siberia is going temperate?
Kinda makes you wonder what the weather was like when this happened.
http://www.s8int.com/boneyard4.html
If the permafrost were to melt wouldn't the moss in the peatmoss start growing at a faster rate and act as a carbon sink by taking in excess atmospheric carbon dioxide and offsetting any higer temperatures?
Bump for later reading. Make sure we pass a law that says no one is allowed to light any candles in Siberia.
Funny it didn't melt 1000 years ago when the earth was 6 degress warmer than it is now.
Global RE-WARMING more like it. How did they get a peat bog there if the place was always an ice cube?