Thawing permafrost releasing more carbon than previously thought
United Press International,
by
Brooks Hays
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/3/2019 3:27:06 PM
The problem of thawing permafrost is worse than climate scientists thought. New research suggests previous studies have underestimated the rate at which thawing permafrost is releasing carbon into the atmosphere.
Thawing permafrost is one of the many negative feedback loops caused by global warming. As temperatures rise, more and more frozen tundra melts, releasing previously trapped carbon into the atmosphere and accelerating climate change.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/3/2019 3:32:10 PM (No. 113168)
All together now: "Give us your money or we're all gonna die!"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Plex 7/3/2019 3:39:39 PM (No. 113179)
All under the fallacious theory that CO2 is the forcing function for climate temperature. Current data, yes data, falsifies that theory as temps are falling while CO2 is rising.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 7/3/2019 3:50:38 PM (No. 113187)
OH EM GEE, WhamDBambam is RIGHT!
We're ALL gonna DIE if the dictator Trump refuses to raise our taxes! (Except for the taxes on the 45% who pay ZERO federal income taxes in the first place. All their money was stolen by the rest of us.)
PeachFoetyFi for refusing to raise our taxes!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hisself 7/3/2019 3:59:45 PM (No. 113195)
YAAAAWWWN !!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/3/2019 4:03:20 PM (No. 113200)
The one good thing for air-breathing creatures on earth is that carbon dioxide is absorbed by plant leaves which makes them grow, and by the process of photosynthesis, CO2 is converted to Oxygen, which air-breathing creatures absorb into their blood through their lungs. So it's a win win for plants and everyone else on the planet. I guess climate scientists never studied horticulture and agriculture. Back to school boys and girls.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2019 4:40:32 PM (No. 113235)
And, so? Carbon is a good thing. Green plants are currently starved for CO2 in our sadly "CO2 poor" current atmosphere. More CO2 is a good thing for life. And those plants turn it into oxygen, which I use every day, with gusto.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/3/2019 4:47:44 PM (No. 113246)
Get your nomenclature right - it's CLIMATE CHANGE, formerly known as Global Warming.
Tell me again why you think the earth was finished when you got here.
Oh yeah, Climate Change is redundant.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 7/3/2019 4:48:32 PM (No. 113247)
This would be positive feedback, not negative feedback, if it indeed exists. None of these people ever seem to know anything they are talking about. More Orwellian double-speak fake science. OMG, it gets old.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 7/3/2019 4:49:34 PM (No. 113248)
OH NOES!!!! Everyone--except the very special people who fly around in private jets, live in huge, carbon-consuming mansions, and constantly harp about "Climate Whatever"--should immediately stop breathing NOW!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/3/2019 4:50:09 PM (No. 113251)
Impossible. After all, Al Gore told us repeatedly that the science was settled.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/3/2019 5:10:49 PM (No. 113280)
I knew it! I knew it!
Remember about 15 years ago I sounded the alarm - - right here on this forum - - to watch out for the permafrost. That's where the danger lies - - the permafrost. Do you remember that I practically screamed out - - that the permafrost was gonna kill all of us? Yes - - that every single one of us was going to be killed by permafrost meltdown!
Remember? No? Well - - come to think of it - - neither do I.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/3/2019 5:50:28 PM (No. 113325)
In less than 12 years, according to the Mensa intelligent scientist, Occasionally-Cognizant, we're all going to be extinct anyway, so to quote the famous sage, Felonious Rodham Von Pantsuit, "At this point, what difference does it make?"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2019 6:00:38 PM (No. 113333)
Sorry to bust your balloon but I am of an age where 12 more years sounds like a pretty good deal. Dyslexia Occasionally-Cognizant and her contemporaries can fight it out among themselves. Pleeeeease elect Roberto O'Rourquez. I need the entertainment.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/3/2019 6:15:11 PM (No. 113345)
Instead of 'the sky is falling' its 'the sky is thawing'. This is just more scare tactics.
Just remember, these people do not know how to control the climate. Its all a big fraud to control people, and take their wealth.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/3/2019 6:29:18 PM (No. 113360)
Thawing permafrost does not release any carbon. What it releases is methane and CO2.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
web 7/3/2019 6:46:05 PM (No. 113374)
It's all a question of perspective. Thawing permafrost and more CO2 is a good thing, in my humble opinion. What would you prefer, glaciers covering Chicago?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/3/2019 6:56:49 PM (No. 113389)
Kind of bad timing! Those of us in Florida are dealing with day after day of 97 degree heat. Not really worrying too much about the permafrost (whatever the heck that is supposed to be)!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/3/2019 7:03:48 PM (No. 113398)
Mooooooo-oo-oo-ooooo....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/3/2019 7:04:06 PM (No. 113399)
So, just how did that big ice age begin?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2019 7:37:02 PM (No. 113439)
It's been happening for the last 10,000 years or so, since the end of the last Ice Age. They say that there was a 2 kilometer thick ice sheet extending down into Nebraska. I was up there not long ago and it is gone (shock and dismay!)......looks like Climate Change for at least 10,000 years.
And I am in favor of it, and I bet the Nebraskans and all of the folks north of there are, too.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/3/2019 9:29:51 PM (No. 113513)
This actually confirms what many actual climate scientists have been saying. And that is that CO2 is not a cause of global warming but a lagging indicator. As temperature increases, more CO2 is released. NOT the other way around.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 7/3/2019 10:15:21 PM (No. 113547)
Personally, I don't care one whit.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/4/2019 12:04:41 AM (No. 113611)
I love Climate Change. If it weren't for Climate Change there would be dinosaurs in my yard. If I could afford it I'd leave my car running 24/7 so I could put more CO2 into the atmosphere so I don't have to use my snow shovel again.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 7/4/2019 7:11:20 AM (No. 113765)
They are absolutely correct. All the good global warming people in the country should follow your beliefs and commit suicide to cut back on your carbon emissions. This will help the warming problem and it will also improve the gene pool.
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