Sentences with phrase «know thawing permafrost»

Scientists know thawing permafrost unlocks carbon.

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«We've known for a while now that permafrost is thawing,» said Suzanne Hodgkins, the lead author on the paper and a doctoral student in chemical oceanography at Florida State.

This figure would include the release of terrestial stored carbon from feedback mechanisms such as the thaw of methal hydrates, permafrost, and the increased severity and intensity of wildfires, plus the predicted dieback of the Amazon dues to drying effect.I am an amateur layman, and RealClimate is gracious enough to allow me to post.For me, a 1000 ppm settling point, albeit including the feedback mechanisms, is effective ly game over for the planet as we know it.

For example, if he knows a way of growing millions of tons of corn on recently thawed - out permafrost bog with the sunlight constraints of high northern latitudes, then he should let the rest of the world know!

As the permafrost thaws, it is releasing an alarming amount of CO2 and methane... which as you know, both trap heat (for they are greenhouse gases in their own right) & this will only exacerbate our problem.

«Not only are fens one of the strongest sources of wetland greenhouse gases, but we also know that Canadian forests and tundra underlain by permafrost are thawing and creating these kinds of high methane - producing ecosystems.»

The thawing of this soil, known as permafrost, could have serious consequences for further changes in the climate.

Permafrost degradation in the Mackenzie Basin is a large factor in erosion, flooding, and landslides.2, 3,4,5,6 Scientists have documented more than 2,000 slides in the Mackenzie Valley over the past century, as well as another 1,000 additional landslides in fine - grained sediments known as retrogressive thaw - flows in the Mackenzie Delta - Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula.2

Nelson, the University of Delaware geographer, says thawing permafrost will «profoundly affect» biological activity in ways that are not fully known.

Perhaps more ominously yet, the possibility exists that thawing Arctic permafrost — known to contain huge amounts of carbon — could release large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

For instance, we have known for years that perhaps the single most important carbon - cycle feedback is the thawing of the northern permafrost.