http://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/PR_thawing-permafrost-cost-trillions

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost could result in an additional $43 trillion in economic impacts by the end of the twenty-second century, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). These extra impacts justify the need for urgent action to reduce emissions from thawing permafrost. The study was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Permafrost or frozen ground, which contain about 1,700 gigatons of carbon in the form of frozen organic matter, have begun to thaw in response to Arctic warming over the past few decades. As the permafrost degrades, carbon dioxide and methane are released, amplifying the effects of emissions from human activity.

dv said:

http://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/PR_thawing-permafrost-cost-trillions

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost could result in an additional $43 trillion in economic impacts by the end of the twenty-second century, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). These extra impacts justify the need for urgent action to reduce emissions from thawing permafrost. The study was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Permafrost or frozen ground, which contain about 1,700 gigatons of carbon in the form of frozen organic matter, have begun to thaw in response to Arctic warming over the past few decades. As the permafrost degrades, carbon dioxide and methane are released, amplifying the effects of emissions from human activity.

Now what do we do? Harvest the methane and CO2? Use the methane to support other fossil fuels? The CO2 to grow great medical cannabis?

roughbarked said:

Now what do we do? Harvest the methane and CO2? Use the methane to support other fossil fuels? The CO2 to grow great medical cannabis?

I’ll put those ideas forward

dv said:

roughbarked said:

Now what do we do? Harvest the methane and CO2? Use the methane to support other fossil fuels? The CO2 to grow great medical cannabis?

I’ll put those ideas forward

Ta. ;)

> thawing Arctic permafrost …

… is about the best possible thing you could do for the world. Places that cannot now support life would come to give a massive boost to the world’s biosphere.

mollwollfumble said:

> thawing Arctic permafrost …

… is about the best possible thing you could do for the world. Places that cannot now support life would come to give a massive boost to the world’s biosphere.

and we’d fill the oceans with empty insect repellant containers.

mollwollfumble said:

> thawing Arctic permafrost …

… is about the best possible thing you could do for the world. Places that cannot now support life would come to give a massive boost to the world’s biosphere.

For the world, yes. Also, mass extinction events often lead to great new developments, new clades blooming and thriving.

On the other hand it might make the earth uninhabitable for humans so it is swings and roundabouts.

key word, as per usual,

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COULD!

lol

PICK A FUCKIN WINNER WHY DON’T THEY