CHERSKY, Russia – The Russian scientist shuffles across the frozen lake, scuffing aside ankle-deep snow until he finds a cluster of bubbles trapped under the ice. With a cigarette lighter in one hand and a knife in the other, he lances the ice like a blister. Methane whooshes out and bursts into a thin blue flame.
Gas locked inside Siberia's frozen soil and under its lakes has been seeping out since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. But in the past few decades, as the Earth has warmed, the icy ground has begun thawing more rapidly, accelerating the release of methane — a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide — at a perilous rate.
Another tale of Siberian permafrost melting at an alarming rate
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools - Douglas Adams.
This is how to do it. The example below is for Powerswitch home page.
If you want to make it active then use square brackets everywhere I have used roundy ones.
I was at a Royal Society talk this evening and a map was shown of predicted temp changes. The areas expecting the greatest warming were just these areas!
Which of course will accelerate the warming of everywhere else....
