[Phys-L] So, what else is new?

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/21/1645671/-Thousands-of-underground-gas-bulges-formed-by-thawing-permafrost-set-to-explode-in-Siberia?detail=email&link_id=13&can_id=e3f2957283a360b1d4ba2a9177e8f233&source=email-the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway&email_referrer=the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway&email_subject=the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway <http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/21/1645671/-Thousands-of-underground-gas-bulges-formed-by-thawing-permafrost-set-to-explode-in-Siberia?detail=email&link_id=13&can_id=e3f2957283a360b1d4ba2a9177e8f233&source=email-the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway&email_referrer=the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway&email_subject=the-real-bombshell-of-the-house-intelligence-trump-russia-hearing-happened-in-the-hallway>. 


The oldest result from a v. quick search is  [4+ years ago]


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/science/earth/warming-arctic-permafrost-fuels-climate-change-worries.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/science/earth/warming-arctic-permafrost-fuels-climate-change-worries.html>  


The New Yorker has pub’d several articles:  

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/siberia-mystery-craters-methane-climate-change

Is there hope?   Proposed - feedback mechanism (methane decomposition)  More than 25 years old tho.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v346/n6280/abs/346160a0.html

bc