permafrost melting Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:37:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Siberia Permafrost Starts Melting at 1.5 Celsius, According to Experts https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siberia-permafrost-melt-20130225/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siberia-permafrost-melt-20130225/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:37:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=33968 In an alarming statement, scientists warned that a global temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius will trigger the melting of the permafrost in Siberia. Climate change could be accelerated by any major thaw in Siberia’s permafrost, which covers 24%of the land surface of the northern hemisphere. Hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide and methane might possibly […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siberia-permafrost-melt-20130225/feed/ 0 33968 Melting Permafrost to Release Billions of Tons of CO2 by 2100 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melting-permafrost-to-release-billions-of-tons-of-co2-by-2100-20121128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melting-permafrost-to-release-billions-of-tons-of-co2-by-2100-20121128/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:33:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28932 In a recent UN Environment Programme report, it was declared that the permafrost across Siberia and Alaska has started to melt, threatening the earth with its release of an estimated 43 to 135 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) gases into the atmosphere by 2100. The permafrost, a vast area of supposedly permanently frozen land […]

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