Tag Archives: permafrost

The late 2013 to 2014 Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change Report will reportedly not incorporate melting permafrost’s probably gigantic carbon releases — an omission that promises to make it as subject to controversy as its predecessors 0

Citation Kevin Schaefer, Hugues Lantuit, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Edward A. G. Schuur, and Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Policy Implications  of Warming Permafrost, United Nations Environment Programme [ISBN: 978-92-807-3308-2] (November 2012) Note This document is not dated.  That is why I included the ISBN. The November 2012 date that I have attributed to the report comes from the [...]

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3 December 2012 – 16:39
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By BrainiYak

Methane seeps in the Arctic is not new news — but this tidbit about the Arctic methane supply is interesting 0

Citation Katey M. Walter Anthony, Peter Anthony, Guido Grosse, and  Jeffrey Chanton, Geologic methane seeps along boundaries of Arctic permafrost thaw and melting glaciers, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1480 (advance online publication, 20 May 2012) There is reportedly a whole lot more methane currently stored under frozen conditions in the Arctic than there is in the atmosphere [...]

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21 May 2012 – 12:35
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Computer model explains Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum via soil carbon release due to melting permafrost — well, maybe 0

Citation Robert M. DeConto, Simone Galeotti, Mark Pagani, David Tracy, Kevin Schaefer, Tingjun Zhang, David Pollard, and David J. Beerling, Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost, Nature 484(7392): 87–91 (05 April 2012) Orienting ourselves, timewise The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was apparently the most significant such warming period during the [...]

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9 April 2012 – 11:10
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30,000-year old plant tissue buried in late Pleistocene permafrost has been regenerated into living, seed-bearing plants 0

This happy happenstance courtesy of nesting Ice Age squirrels A Russian research team found Late Pleistocene (therefore fossil) Siberian squirrel burrows 38 meters below today’s ground surface. They found the squirrels’ stash of seeds and immature Silene stenophylla fruit tissue inside and radiocarbon dated the fruit to 31,800 ± 300 years ago. The team propagated [...]

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21 February 2012 – 12:24
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By BrainiYak