Frank Scott wrote:
Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday August 11, 2005
Guardian
A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today. Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres - the size of France and Germany combined - has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.
The area, which covers the entire sub-Arctic region of western Siberia, is the world's largest frozen peat bog and scientists fear that as it thaws, it will release billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. ___________________________________
Hmmm... Isn't it the scientific consensus that the Great Permian Extinction was the result of a massive release of methane, caused by sudden global warming? If it ain't one thing, it's another.