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Russia's permafrost is thawing and this is what it's unveiling
- ttyprintk 5y agoThis is a pretty glossy presentation of scary phenomena. It’s unsurprising that the Russian government wants to point to open sea lands and mammoth ivory as upsides of climate change. But, besides the emissions of permafrost, Russia might have to deal with the release of long-contained nuclear waste, buried anthrax and other dormant but malignant organisms as the permafrost turns to marsh.
- ttyprintk 5y agoIf looking for a lower-bound to the expected impact, some early analysis that helps clarify what “conservative” model inputs look like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949379