It’s not just woolly mammoths that are emerging from the permafrost:
A perfectly preserved wolf puppy, hidden away in permafrost for 57,000 years and described by researchers as "the oldest, most complete wolf," has been discovered in Yukon, Canada.
www.cnn.com
Nor is it only the remains of Pleistocene fauna making an appearance in the permafrost:
Climate change is a likely culprit, but scientists are still determining the reason for the frozen tundra's cavernous phenomena.
www.discovermagazine.com
On a remote peninsula in the Arctic circle, enormous wounds are appearing in the permafrost – as something that is worrying scientists bursts out from underground.
www.bbc.com
I am impressed that this scientist tracks pretty close to me on the facts.
Sinkholes in other areas are commonly due to solid material being dissolved and flowing away, leaving an unsupported surface structure that collapses. I could show you some in areas of the Great Basin where water is dissolving a salt deposit and flowing towards the Great Salt Lake which now is at a lower level than has been generally the case over the past tens of thousands of years.
Generally, natural gas which I believe includes vast amounts ofr abiotic hydrogen and reduced carbon gases from the earth's original formation components, as well a biogenic gases including methane and other reduced carbon gases from organic decay, will be trapped under a solid cap whether ice or stone until something disrupts the seal or fractures the formation.
Methane isw also known to form a solid crystal at low temperatures and is stored in vast amounts in frozen muck.
Without assuming this has not been as true of previous warming events, I would speculate that the rfelease of such vast stodres of greenhouse gases will certaining accelerate warming in the short term.
These gases will be oxidized fairly rapidly in the atmosphere due to high energy radiation or ionized solar flare materials. Some attempts at estimating a "half life" for such gases certainly have been made, but just as certainly arfe based on static atmospheric conditions that may not hold in every event.
What is certain is that these species do react with "acid rain" components that get scrubbed outta the atmosphere and react with surface materials until fully oxidized and stored again as water and carbonate rock or salt.
imo, these processes are cyclical and reversible, and may contribute to long cycles of climate such as "Ice Ages". Long ago, in reading research from pollen cores, one scientist claimed to have proof of short (20-50 yr) temperature spikes of several degrees C just priot to each Ice Age he studied with his pollen counts.
I incorporate that finding into my opinion that we need warm oceans, not just +1C but +4C more likely, with a substantial correlated warmer depth profile in the deeper levels of the Ocean, to launch an Ice Age. Changes in solar activity or interstellar debris fields, or internal geonuclear cycles could potentially be involved.
None of this is to insist that humans don't have some impact as well, maybe as significant as popularly supposed today.
But our efforts would be more efficiently directed as replacing carbon fuels with nuclear, and moving to locations that will be less affected generally.
The political hijacking of this issue is an abomination.
Be reasonable, do something that will address the issue.
Human population can be compatible with real solutions. Human freedom and economic choice is likely going to resolve the problem better than any government plan can coordinate from any top-down strategy.
Whatever government does, the political hacks will take their cut and actually interfere with any economic change that's needed.
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