http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060615/ts_ ... mafrost_dc
Gee, the Thawing permafrost could unleash tons of carbon...
"long-frozen soil in Siberia are starting to thaw, and have the potential to unleash billions of tons of carbon and accelerate global warming"...
(sorry, I can't help myself with my sarcasm)
Let me guess, the US will now setup a commission, a congress of experts, maybe get those guys that discovered all those wmd in Iraq, or caught Saddam for doing 9/11, and this new round table of experts can implement more methodologies such as used to manage Enron or Katrina, and these new experts will advise the next incompetent (asshole) US president on how to deal with the melting of Russian permafrost...
I know, they will blame Russia, because Russia can't contain all of America's emissions... NGO money will flow, the next US president will complain about the Siberian melt down and blame it on "democracy"...
(end my sarcasm)
American leaders are criminals. They will use any news trend, stretch it as far as they can for the sake of advancing their hidden agendas. Serious issue like this will be buried in another Cheney comment like "we are being held hostage by Gazprom"... When the real problem is the consumer / demand side...
So many great studies going on, so many great solutions to "peak oil", and yet so far, I expect, and anticipate some dip shit in DC to use it for US hegemony.
The great knowledge and great solutions must wait for these American baby boomers to die off.
Mean while, America will continue to drop her standard of living.
If I can make an analogy: "America farts, it's your nose that's the problem"...
the only thing to slow the melting of the permafrost is the ending of dollar hegemony... this will make oil expensive and finance renewables, conservatrion, population reduction, re-localization, and so forth... But everything must wait till the PNAC is purged.





