Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thawing tundra

Researcher Shannan Sweet working in the Alaskan tundra in summer. Natalie Boelman says thawing of the tundra could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

Interesting article today on CNN.  In it they talk about the rising threat of thawing tundra.  As this tundra defrosts it releases massive amounts of carbon that had once been frozen.  As we all know this causes damage to our air quality as well as ozone layer.  Seems like real issues seem to get heightened and then swept under the rug.  But there are still so many environmental issues we need to talk.  We can talk about job creation and so on but once we destroy our planet won’t really matter if we have jobs or not.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/opinion/boelman-arctic-tundra/index.html?iref=allsearch

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