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Public Category => GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS => Topic started by: Dingo on June 25, 2013, 02:51:16 PM

Title: Is Arctic Permafrost the "Sleeping Giant" of Climate Change?‏
Post by: Dingo on June 25, 2013, 02:51:16 PM
NASA Science News for June 24, 2013

Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate change.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSM8GcmJKg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSM8GcmJKg)

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/24jun_permafrost/ (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/24jun_permafrost/)