Sentences with phrase «thawing of permafrost does»

«Thawing of permafrost does not mean all permafrost carbon is eventually lost.

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Despite that risk, current climate models do not include the risk of emissions from thawing permafrost, the UNEP analysis warned.

Researchers do believe that climate change contributes to more thawing of the ocean floor permafrost in the Arctic because they have measured increases in seafloor temperatures in recent years.

However, little study has been done thus far on the effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic and subarctic ponds.

Although the Russian authorities may downplay their concerns because they don't really have any good solutions, they are very concerned about the economic consequences of the thawing because much of Russia's natural gas and oil is extracted from the permafrost.

The IPCC report did not take into account thawing permafrost and the subsequent release of methane.

They don't seem to realize anywhere in the paper that the temperature data they are relying of for input to their models used for permafrost thaw comes from the little white box at the edge of the tarmac.

«Permafrost hundreds of metres thick simply doesn't warm or thaw much in ten years on account of its thermal inertia.»

The two scientists report in Nature Climate Change that if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise as they are doing now, the thaw of the permafrost and the loss of the ice caps could release 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon now locked in as frozen organic matter.

Because present - day permafrost landscapes generally support a greater abundance of lakes and wetlands than do thawed landscapes (Smith et al., 2005, 2007), a complete disappearance of permafrost would suggest an ultimately drier land surface and thus reduced methane production.

«We have proven that the current state of subsea permafrost is incomparably closer to the thaw point than terrestrial permafrost, and that modern warming does contribute to warming the subsea permafrost,» says Shakhova.

«The presence of old carbon does not necessarily mean a permafrost feedback is occurring, because old carbon can [still] be released by natural seasonal thaw processes in permafrost systems,» said Joshua Dean of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

But that didn't stop him: he continued calling — searching for infrastructure that was deteriorating as the permafrost thawed beneath it and for facilities threatened by coastal erosion and flooding — until he and his colleagues had mapped every inch of Alaska's infrastructure and put a price tag on what climate change might do to it.