Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
#EcosystemBeforeEconomics
The opening lines of a recent New York Times article by Justin Gillis may appear to many readers as if they were part of a big budget film treatment:
“A bubble rose through a hole in the surface of a frozen lake. It popped, followed by another, and another, as if a pot were somehow boiling in the icy depths. Every bursting bubble sent up a puff of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas generated beneath the lake from the decay of plant debris. These plants last saw the light of day 30,000 years ago and have been locked in a deep freeze — until now.”
But here’s the catch: The melting of the permafrost is not science fiction and it’s not gonna go away us we occupy major changes…right now.
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