Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by mrpg on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-worries-me dept.

Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is thawing so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it.

"The ground thaws and swallows it," said Merritt Turetsky, a University of Guelph biologist whose new research warns the rapid thaw could dramatically increase the amounts of greenhouse gases released from ancient plants and animals frozen within the tundra.

"We've put cameras in the ground, we've put temperature equipment in the ground, and it gets flooded. It often happens so fast we can't get out there and rescue it.

"We've lost dozens of field sites. We were collecting data on a forest and all of a sudden it's a lake."

Turetsky's research, published this week in the journal Nature, looks at the rate of permafrost thaw across the Arctic and what its impact could be on attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday May 05 2019, @02:52AM (6 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday May 05 2019, @02:52AM (#839063) Journal

    Hurr Durr, AGW isn't happening, so the researchers must be wrong.

    "This doesn't conform to my worldview, so obviously, the people who spend their time studying the subject must be wrong and my ignorance trumps it".

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Troll=1, Insightful=3, Touché=1, Total=5
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:55AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:55AM (#839079)

    Let me know of all the grants available to the scientists who go against your narrative. It’s ok, I’ll wait.

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Pav on Sunday May 05 2019, @11:50AM (4 children)

      by Pav (114) on Sunday May 05 2019, @11:50AM (#839178)

      If the Koch brothers can pay off enough politicians to get tar sands oil piped through several drinking water catchment headwaters down to Texas, and help forment Venzuelan unrest, then climate change is a snap. (The Kochs Texas refinery can only refine the absolute worst/dirtiest/cheapest-per-barrel oil... ie. Venezuelan oil OR tar sands oil). BTW, over $100,000000 has already been given by the Kochs to climate change denialists.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:58PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:58PM (#839253)

        Over $100,000000,000.62 has been given to climate change hysterics. That is bigger than your number.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:07PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:07PM (#839828)

        Your information on the refineries the Koch's control is incorrect. Not sure where you heard that. It is an interesting narrative it supports, but the supporting statements are not facts. The Texas refinery owned by the Kochs is more geared towards running light crude, like the stuff traditionally from west Texas. Their Minnesota refinery, on the other hand, is built for heavy Canadian crude, because you know Minnesota is practically like South Canada. http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/saint-paul-refinery [wikidot.com] http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/flint-hills-corpus-christi-refinery [wikidot.com]

        • (Score: 2) by Pav on Thursday May 09 2019, @10:23AM

          by Pav (114) on Thursday May 09 2019, @10:23AM (#841280)

          Ummm... no... There's even a link to Keystone XL (the pipline from Canada to Texas) on the Corpus Cristi refinery web page.

        • (Score: 2) by Pav on Thursday May 09 2019, @10:55AM

          by Pav (114) on Thursday May 09 2019, @10:55AM (#841285)

          ...and they also say 20% of the refined oil comes from a nearby shale oil field... heavy stuff.