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Answer: Melting permafrost is causing the physical foundations of oil-and-gas infrastructure to be undermined and weakened. Also, at least one of the graphs ga
by NortySpock 7y ago
Answer: Melting permafrost is causing the physical foundations of oil-and-gas infrastructure to be undermined and weakened.
Also, at least one of the graphs gave 'load bearing capacity' numbers but no units, so that was useless.
- ImaCake 7y agoThere is a bar chart with percentages that are >100% which causes me to ask some questions about the data and how it was processed...
- magicalmurray 7y agoActually, the chart shows load bearing capacity relative to the 1980s capacity (which they've assigned a value of 100). It is not a percentage, but a ratio. Values >100 just indicate that the load bearing capacity has increased since the 1980s, which is possible.
- colorincorrect 7y agoThank you for this summary, But I have also read commentary that says Russia favours warming climates since it increases its living conditions; Russia is a very cold place. Is that complete baloney?
- NortySpock 7y agoThe article discussed that; Putin was initially fine with global warming. It's only now that some downsides of permafrost melting have come up that Putin is having second thoughts. What the general opinion of the Russian population is on global warming, I do not know.