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| adhesive_wombat wrote:
| > Trapped in all that permafrost is 30 billion tonnes of carbon.
| It's an unfathomable amount, says Kirkwood.
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| It's a lot, but it's a little over 7 months of anthropogenic
| emissions, which, while decidedly unhelpful in the "make it to
| 2100" stakes, seems also fathomable.
|
| This assumes it's CO2e being talked about. If it's 30 billion
| tonnes of carbon in methane, that's...rather more suboptimal,
| since that would be something like 15 years worth of human.
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