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Gaia strikes back



"Oil and gas deposits on land are likely to be harder to
extract as tundra thaws, limiting the frozen season when
drilling convoys can traverse the otherwise spongy ground,
the report says. Alaska has already seen the "tundra travel"
season on the North Slope shrink to 100 days from about 200
days a year in 1970."



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/science/earth/30arctic.html