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Permafrost chasers

Category: fun
Posted on: August 31, 2008 4:00 PM, by William M. Connolley

Best climate cartoon for a long time: http://xkcd.com/402/

Attached to some serious science via Nature.

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

Posted by: natural cynic | August 31, 2008 7:51 PM

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

Posted by: travc | August 31, 2008 11:38 PM

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?

Posted by: Alexander Ač | September 2, 2008 7:01 AM

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