The term “permafrost” describes ground that has been continuously frozen and can include soil alone or dirt mixed with ice and covered by snow.
Most Arctic permafrost cover has persisted for 800,000 to 1 million years, but climate change is eating away at even some of the most ancient ice reserves.
One of the known hazards of Arctic warming is the release of vast reserves of greenhouse gases. Melting permafrost releases millions of tons of carbon dioxide and methane yearly, increasing Earth’s warming, Live Science reported in 2020.
Massive lakes are bubbling with methane, ice-rich ground collapses under the weight of increasingly warmer temperatures, and ‘zombie fires’ are smoldering underground for months.
This region has been getting warmer four times faster than the global average, weakening the top layer of Arctic permafrost. Melting Arctic permafrost in places like Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, where permafrost layers have long acted as a giant freezer locking in soil and potentially deadly organic matter.
“Permafrost is like the dirty cousin to the ice sheets,” said the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research director at the University of Colorado Boulder, “It’s a buried phenomenon.”
The northernmost reaches of the planet are home to about 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon, roughly 51 times the amount the world currently released in 2019, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Over the past ten years, there has been a sudden appearance of about 20 perfectly calendrical craters in Siberia’s remote northern communities. Dozens of meters in diameter, scientists believe these craters are the result of explosions of built-up methane gas under the Earth’s surface.
One of the fascinating consequences of the rapid thawing of permafrost is the intense wildfires it’s causing all across Siberia, as well as the underground fires that sometimes extinguish smolder for months after the fires above ground have been extinguished. Nicknamed ‘zombie fires’ by the scientists who study them.
Not only will rapid thaws release more carbon into the atmosphere, but they will also pose a serious risk to global health.
Long-dormant microbes trapped under the frozen permafrost for thousands of years are beginning to wake as the Arctic warms, unlocking ancient diseases. Bacteria from thawing human and animal remains from thousands of years ago can also get into the groundwater people drink.
A genomics researcher specializing in ancient viruses and bacteria believes they would likely come into contact with more ancient diseases as the permafrost thaws. the ICPP concluded.
The thawing of the northern permafrost that releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in now-frozen land is a significant tipping point already in progress, with at least five other tipping points.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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