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Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early:
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
[...] With governments meeting in Bonn this week to try to ratchet up ambitions in United Nations climate negotiations, the... findings, published on June 10 in Geophysical Research Letters, offered a further sign of a growing climate emergency.
The paper was based on data Romanovsky and his colleagues had been analyzing since their last expedition to the area in 2016. The team used a modified propeller plane to visit exceptionally remote sites, including an abandoned Cold War-era radar base more than 300 km from the nearest human settlement.
Diving through a lucky break in the clouds, Romanovsky and his colleagues said they were confronted with a landscape that was unrecognizable from the pristine Arctic terrain they had encountered during initial visits a decade or so earlier.
The vista had dissolved into an undulating sea of hummocks - waist-high depressions and ponds known as thermokarst. Vegetation, once sparse, had begun to flourish in the shelter provided from the constant wind.
[...] Scientists are concerned about the stability of permafrost because of the risk that rapid thawing could release vast quantities of heat-trapping gases, unleashing a feedback loop that would in turn fuel even faster temperature rises.
No word on whether or not the Wicked Witch of the West had anything to do with it.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday June 19 2019, @06:44PM (4 children)
Come on! I was just starting to get used climate change! Damn it all...
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:15AM
No, now it is global warning. It doesn't really matter what the warning is about as long as you are very concerned and turn to them for "help".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 20 2019, @03:28AM (2 children)
It always was global warming; it's just that the worthless sensitive fucking melting snowflakes on the conservative/greedhead side insist on euphemizing the hell out of everything.Put another way, technically, the climate change is the end result of global warming.
In any case, it's well past "too late" now. I've been saying this since childhood, and as usual, no one listens to me. Cassandra strikes again!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @04:37AM (1 child)
Where are you getting this? The term climate change comes from the researchers:
> During the 1970s, the term climate change replaced climatic change to focus on anthropogenic causes, as it became clear that human activities had a potential to drastically alter the climate.[2] Climate change was incorporated in the title of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate change is now used as both a technical description of the process, as well as a noun used to describe the problem.[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 20 2019, @11:44PM
And where do you think the pressure to change that came from?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...