Another potentially very dangerous effect of warming in the arctic is the thawing out of vast areas of permafrost (fig.17). There are significant stores of methane locked up in, and trapped below the permafrost regions of the high Arctic.
Climate Change Action: Climate Change: Facts and Impacts (part 3 of 4): On Del.icio.us: climate, permafrost, warming, environment, cryosphere
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There's more about climate change -- including video of an excellent speech by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, on my (noncommercial) blog at:
Http://MiddleburyVt.blogspot.com
Comments to the blog are welcome.
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