This is why we have to cut our domestic GHG emissions by 50% in the next 15 years.
There is as much carbon in frozen permafrost as there is in all of the oil and gas reserves on the planet. This melting permafrost is NOT included in the IPCC temperature projections of climate change.
Extract: "Carbon emissions from thawing arctic permafrost will become substantial within decades, likely exceeding current emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the United States. This will greatly complicate efforts to keep global warming below 2°C and adds urgency to limiting anthropogenic emissions. Unlike fossil fuel emissions, emissions from thawing permafrost build on themselves, because the warming they cause leads to even greater emissions. For this reason, emissions from permafrost could lead to out-of-control global warming."
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