re: Siberia's 'Doorway To The Underworld' Is Rapidly Growing In Size

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Expedition Unknown was there this season hunting mammoth bones. They said it was caused by loggers in the area exposing the permafrost that then began to melt creating the crater.

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I saw that one. Removing the trees removed the shade/protection during the warmer months where the ground would still stay frozen.

Id say its more to do with this, but the earth getting warmer doesnt help either.

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triggered from climate change

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Is this proven or are they just saying that is what is causing it?

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You old southerners are great

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Oh look. It's the yankee to come here and tell us how dumb we southerners are. Man thank God you're here to set us all straight.

I bet this has never happened before in recorded history, and is only happening now because man is heating up the planet, right?

At least that's what they will tell us.

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We've been "recording" temperatures in Antartica for less than 1 billionth of a percent of the time there's been a temperature in Antarctica.

Your idiotic claim is just that, idiotic.

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The ridiculous lengths some people will go to to argue a losing position is entertaining to me. (I'm talking about you, not him).

You should fire back that when the earth was forming it was a couple thousand degrees in Antarctica...proof positive that there is no climate change.

Totally agreed. It can't just be one country doing it. China and India are huge contributors and need to be part of the solution.

And China is already on their way...

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A third consecutive year of falling coal consumption and a renewable energy spending spree has made China the new global leader on climate change, some environmental groups claim.

Coal production dropped even more, and the latest figures confirm a three-year trend of declining coal use for the country's massive electricity grid.

"China has transformed itself from climate bad boy into a reluctant leader, and at the Paris climate change talks, really a true leader," said Greenpeace East Asia's spokesman Li Shuo

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Hell is literally opening up under Russia.

Ok good, I'm glad that you see where I'm going with it. So if that's the case, why has pressure been placed on just citizens of the US? Why hasn't a world team of scientists gotten together and said something? I'm not denying the notion of carbon footprint doing damage alone. But I do think that there are people who make money off that notion by exploiting it and creating regulations. When regulations come out, excessive audits are done and people get fined. The EPA makes money. Then older equipment and machinery are no longer legal due to new regulations, so new equipment and machinery has to be replaced and thus people make money off that too. It sets off a cycle of people making money off an overly exploited situation. I don't think that's "good", as you say. I think that's a bunch of twats ripping people off.


Kind of a left field analogy, but take speeding limit. You don't want people going off on a free for all driving 100 mph everywhere. And it's proven that the faster you go in a car, the more likely you are to kill yourself or others in an accident. But that still doesn't mean that Barney Fife in Redneck, USA gives a shite about that. All he cares about is that you slow down from 55 to 25 in his one horse town. And if you don't, he's gonna pull you over and make money off you. And there's a good chance that he will because he'll hide behind bushes and place a speed limit change in a spot that he knows people will fail to slow down - again because he makes money off that.

Replace Barney Fife with the EPA, and speeding with pollution - and you have the analogy.