Sentences with phrase «back by the permafrost»

Assuming that the flow rates from the deep geology are uninfluenced by what is happening in the near - surface, this leaves something like 9 Tg per year currently being held back by the permafrost seal.

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Pushed from center stage by the expected record arctic ice and permafrost melt, tropical rain forest destruction has been elbowing its way back through the smoke and into view.
Well, NOAA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) are worried, and unlike Revkin, they have published science to back them up — see NSIDC bombshell: Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100.
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