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News of Switzerland and Italy changing their borders due to melting glaciers.

NSIDC reports another record low.

Scientists report accelerating permafrost and tundra melt, with methane being released into the atmosphere.

I AM shocked, truly shocked,” says Katey Walter, an ecologist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. “I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.”
The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling out of them

Back in 2006, in a paper in Nature, Walter warned that as the permafrost in Siberia melted, growing methane emissions could accelerate climate change. But even she was not expecting such a rapid change. “Lakes in Siberia are five times bigger than when I measured them in 2006. It’s unprecedented. This is a global event now, and the inertia for more permafrost melt is increasing.”

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We previously reported on why the permafrost matters to you, here.

We also have reported on the melt occurring around the globe here, here, here, here and here. (You can do a search on a blog for “melt” or “ice” – http://heresysnowboarding.com/blog/?s=melt).

It’s important to remember this has occurred under a ~0.7deg warming over time (~0.35deg in the last 30 or so years). Can you imagine what a 2-6 degree rise will mean? We talk about that here.

Houston, we have a (BIG) problem.

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