Permafrost chasers

Posted by William M. Connolley on August 31, 2008
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Best climate cartoon for a long time: http://xkcd.com/402/

Attached to some serious science via Nature.

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  1. #1 natural cynic
    2008/08/31

    The last panel is obscured by the agilent ad – even after settings were cvhanged.

  2. #2 travc
    2008/08/31

    I love XKCD. http://xkcd.com/463/ is my most recent favorite, but >90% of them are brilliant.

  3. #3 Alexander Ač
    2008/09/02

    These results are backed-up by another study on soil carbon in Siberia and Alaska, published in BioScience:

    http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0901-permafrost.html

    these results also indicate double the amount of soil carbon than previously suggested… hmm, interesting times are ahead. But that’s what we already know, don’t we?