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Title doesn't match the article: "Permafrost areas hold 500 billion tonnes of carbon, which can fast turn into greenhouse gases," Zimov said. Only a fraction
by brlewis 19y ago
Title doesn't match the article:
"Permafrost areas hold 500 billion tonnes of carbon, which can fast turn into greenhouse gases," Zimov said.
Only a fraction of that carbon will ever be converted to CO2.
- gwenhwyfaer 19y agoIn fairness, the title says "carbon", not "carbon dioxide". The article itself fingers methane, though, which is even worse. Not that the title here isn't quite misleading enough, of course - it's just not misleading in that particular way. ;)
- brlewis 19y agoIt's not misleading at all now, but it originally spoke of 500B tons released into the atmosphere yearly.