| The soil of Siberia will change the global climate |
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| Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
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Most frozen bog in the world is melting.
The largest frozen bog in the world is melting," warns the New Scientist, 11 April 2008, which refers to a diagnosis made recently by a team of Russian scientists. Back from a study tour in Western Siberia, these scientists have found that, since the last three or four years, a large number of shallow lakes had emerged in the region. The formation of these lakes would be caused by the gradual melting of the permafrost. The permafrost of western Siberia covers a giant bog 1 million square kilometers, equivalent territories french and German. "Peat generates methane, a greenhouse gas twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide emitted by motor vehicles. So far, 70 billion tons of methane are selected by the permafrost. However, it becomes more liquid at an astonishing pace, and it contains methane escapes into the atmosphere. Scientists fear that thawing Siberian soil does so exponentially to global warming New Scientist. |
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