<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e2449b3-faf2-4f69-bb8d-6c1916b7dfab/C1AF9D77-8935-4AFD-BD6D-F5D00FD8EC1F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/" href="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/" style="font-size: 11px;">tamino.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/tamino.wordpress.com/img/6A99F081-4EA8-4505-B663-287519D962D7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/tamino.wordpress.com/img/4664F725-6378-4DD7-B5B1-3D950D80DC2E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/tamino.wordpress.com/img/52DFF75D-02CB-41A4-B54F-77E4097F0A20" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/">The blogosphere is buzzing with discussion of <A href="http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2008/permafrost.jsp">new research</A> soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, <I>Accelerated Arctic land warming and permafrost degradation during rapid sea ice loss</I> (Lawrence et al. 2008, GRL, in press, scheduled for publication tomorrow)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/">Their research indicates that, in large part due to the rapid reduction of summer sea ice in the arctic, land areas in the far north will warm much faster than the rest of the globe. This would lead to rapid melting of permafrost, which in turn could release massive stores of CO2 trapped in the permafrost.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-big-thaw/">The atmospheric release of a massive store of sequestered carbon is one possible hitherto-unanticipated feedback in the climate system, one which may quite literally be disastrous, not just for the Arctic but for the entire planet</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C1AF9D77-8935-4AFD-BD6D-F5D00FD8EC1F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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