[Abathar]

But, but what about the PLANTS? We are starving them by choking off all their food, how can photosynthisis occur without CO2? Have you low carbon footprint people no FEELINGS for the starving huddled masses of weeds???

[Larry Lucido]

Global warming causes global warming!

[theDentist]

We're Doomed!

[beezdotcom]

See, it's already too late. We may as well drive our Hummers with the A/C blasting, because we can't stop it now... (don't libs ever stop to consider that this is exactly the effect of "calamity fatigue"??)

[JennysCool]

[Ben Mugged]

There's a huge pool of carbon, even more than people thought before, perhaps double the amount of carbon that we thought,"

Then we better drill for it before it gets away!!

[randog]

Siberia is thawing and that's a bad thing? These people would bitch if the Sahara were turned into an oasis.

[Pox]

And I suppose that when the permafrost is "gone", trees and plants will start sprouting up in those regions and become both a carbon sink and oxygen factory?

More alarmist nonsense, IMO. I personally would prefer a warm earth to one in an ice age.

[Styria]

Well, we better make sure we can burn all that carbon for fuel rather than letting it go to rot.

[andyk]

Schuur, one of the article's co-authors

What article?

[VegasCowboy]

Oh fer crying out loud. These people are getting ridiculous.

[headstamp]

Hurry!

We need to cover Siberia with those cheap Chinese plastic tarps to keep it from escaping!

[Lazamataz]

We're all gonna DIE!!!

We're all gonna die!!!!!

[VeniVidiVici]

Anybody know how much more arable land is being created due to global warming?

Oh, sorry, I forgot. We can't use land for such an earth-hurting use such as planting.

[Waco]

Billions of humans and other mammals exhaling will cause the most.....?????? We're doomed, fergit it Dean, fergit it McManiac, fergit it hillary, fergitmit kerry, it's over!!!

[LonePalm]

These people never can explain why about 450 million years ago, the earth was about as cold as it has ever been yet the CO² rate was about 3 times what it is today.

You can't focus on just one thing. Even if the earth was warming there is no evidence that people are causing it.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[ctdonath2]

contains about 75 times more carbon than the amount released into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels

Um...so? what's the connection? All that stored carbon is NOT going to suddenly be released atmospherically in 2007. Fact is, it's mostly just gonna sit there.

[avg_freeper]

I guess they'll have to rename it "tempofrost".

[ctdonath2]

If all Siberian permafrost thawed and released its carbon in the form of heat-trapping carbon dioxide

It won't. Hysterical ignorance.

BTW: What enviros don't notice is that CO2 is plant food - more CO2 means more and happier plants (that's good, right?).

[JustDoItAlways]

How did all that Carbon get locked up in the permafrost? I mean how did all those plants grow and animals live in all those permafrost conditions?

You'd almost think it was warmer in Siberia at some point in the past few million years or so (when CO2 levels were supposedly lower than today's record 380 ppm.)

[wizardoz]

I see they're upping the ante. "The sky is falling EVEN FASTER THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT!!!"

And of course, once the temperature shoots up another degree, the ice caps will melt in a matter of minutes, causing the oceans to rise so fast that millions of people on the coast will be swept away by the floods on their way home from the grocery store... then all THOSE bodies will rot, releasing MORE carbon, and then ALL the ice will melt and the WHOLE WORLD will be under water and all the people will be dead and the problem will be solved. So really, there's nothing to worry about.