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Related: About this forumPermafrost wildfires burning in Siberia
[font size=4]Unprecedented Early Start to Perma-Burn Fire Season Deadly Wildfires Rage Through Siberia on April 12[/font]
Permafrost. Ground frozen for millennia. An enormous deposit of organic carbon forming a thick, peat-like under-layer.
Forced to warm at an unprecedented rate through the massive burning of heat-trapping gasses by human beings, this layer is now rapidly thawing, providing an amazing source of heat and fuel for wildfire ignition.
Joe Romm over at Climate Progress has long called this region Permamelt. But, with a doubling of the number of wildfires for the high Arctic and an extension of the permafrost fire season into early April this year, we may well consider this to be a zone of now, near permanent, burning Permaburn.
Permafrost. Ground frozen for millennia. An enormous deposit of organic carbon forming a thick, peat-like under-layer.
Forced to warm at an unprecedented rate through the massive burning of heat-trapping gasses by human beings, this layer is now rapidly thawing, providing an amazing source of heat and fuel for wildfire ignition.
Joe Romm over at Climate Progress has long called this region Permamelt. But, with a doubling of the number of wildfires for the high Arctic and an extension of the permafrost fire season into early April this year, we may well consider this to be a zone of now, near permanent, burning Permaburn.
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Permafrost wildfires burning in Siberia (Original Post)
Binkie The Clown
Apr 2015
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Phlem
(6,323 posts)1. Permafrost exacerbates global warming.
https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/frozenground/climate.html
"Permafrost can contain a lot of plant and animal material, so it could release a large amount of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. Scientists think that the amount of carbon trapped in permafrost equals the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere. The additional gases could speed up the rate of global warming. Then even more permafrost could thaw, releasing even more gases."
"Permafrost can contain a lot of plant and animal material, so it could release a large amount of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. Scientists think that the amount of carbon trapped in permafrost equals the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere. The additional gases could speed up the rate of global warming. Then even more permafrost could thaw, releasing even more gases."
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. right then
marym625
(17,997 posts)3. wow. just, wow.
We're screwed
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)4. All the religious nutters and their burning desire...
...for the "end of days" are about to get their wish.
I really hope they enjoy their fucking Hell on Earth. They can cry for their precious Rapture while they starve to death in 127 degree baking sun.
Every last one of the useless fucking mental midgets.
sue4e3
(731 posts)5. It's all terrible but if it's burning atleast it's not hitting our atmosphere as methane
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)6. Sorry, but the point is that IT WILL!!
It's a foregone conclusion .
Nihil
(13,508 posts)8. Except for that heat thing that comes from burning ...
... which melts more "perma"frost away from the flame point, releasing methane that is not ignited
and so just ascends (along with the CO2 from that fraction of the methane that *did* ignite) into
the atmosphere to accelerate the warming effect ...
Oh the joy of feedback cycles ...
Judi Lynn
(160,449 posts)7. A terrifying reality people didn't foresee. What a shocking shame. n/t