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The Arctic "Doomsday" Seed Vault is Flooding - Permafrost Thaw
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:14 pm
Deep underground in the far reaches of the arctic North, there’s a fortress that’s supposed to be one of humanity’s safeguards if we can’t feed ourselves in the future. It’s a vault containing 500 million seeds, representing 880,000 different crops, many of which can’t be found in fields today. It’s the ultimate failsafe if the world’s farms burn or diseases decimate our staples and we have to start over. The facility is supposed to keep these seeds safe for hundreds of years, without human oversight.
What the designers weren’t counting on so much: floods linked to climate change.
The Guardian is reporting that a flood due to melting arctic permafrost has breached the facility, creating an icy mess. The seeds are safe for now — they’re packaged in moisture-proof bags, and the flood didn’t reach the vault, just the entrance. Still, it caught the facility managers by surprise.
We Were Warned
What the designers weren’t counting on so much: floods linked to climate change.
The Guardian is reporting that a flood due to melting arctic permafrost has breached the facility, creating an icy mess. The seeds are safe for now — they’re packaged in moisture-proof bags, and the flood didn’t reach the vault, just the entrance. Still, it caught the facility managers by surprise.
We Were Warned
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Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:17 pm to LSU1NSEC
Vox and the Guardian. Pure propaganda.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:18 pm to LSU1NSEC
Gotta get them some of that Flex Seal spray
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:20 pm to LSU1NSEC
Great, what retarded, earth saving thing has science planned for climate change that will fail also?
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:22 pm to LSU1NSEC
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What the designers weren’t counting on so much: floods linked to climate change.
Shortsighted
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:22 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Vox and the Guardian. Pure propaganda.
To be fair it's not like you believe scientists anyways.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:27 pm to olddawg26
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To be fair it's not like you believe scientists anyways.
Link?
In the past few weeks ive seen articles tying earthquakes in alaska and snow in the Smokies to climate change. Excuse me if im skeptical about isolated incidents.
You can keep reciting the ideoligical line all you want, i'll think a little more critically.
Most permafrost ebbs and wanes. It also rains in the arctic.
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 8:29 pm
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:28 pm to LSU1NSEC
Libs start selling off their beach front property yet? If not, I'm not too worried.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:30 pm to LSU1NSEC
Settle down, cuck- We're putting mammoths back up there to reverse the effects of global warming - saw it on Vice
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:31 pm to LSU1NSEC
Well that's a pretty lousy doomsday vault then
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:32 pm to BatonRogue
But the science is already settled right?
Previously undetected Forest area 2/3 the size of Australia discovered.
Mash Here
Previously undetected Forest area 2/3 the size of Australia discovered.
Mash Here
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:33 pm to LSU1NSEC
FAKE NEWS!
LINK to real news.
There's a real source, not some anonymous fake source.
LINK to real news.
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But the media should have done a little more footwork when reporting on the flooding. It turns out the vault regularly floods, as its designers anticipated.
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There’s only one problem — the vault floods almost every year.
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“In my experience, there’s been water intrusion at the front of the tunnel every single year,” Fowler said.
There's a real source, not some anonymous fake source.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:35 pm to crossfire
Right. No "scientist" was quoted. Just some government reo. As interpreted by a reporter.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I was talking in generalities. Not aimed at you. I don't think the science is settled, but I don't think it's a complete hoax. Rational debate is fine on climate change.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:49 pm to olddawg26
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I was talking in generalities. Not aimed at you. I don't think the science is settled, but I don't think it's a complete hoax. Rational debate is fine on climate change.
Not even discussing climate change in which I believe. It's the overexaggerations dand falsehoods attributed to it which I don't believe.
The article in the OP was a bunch of Bull.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 8:57 pm to LSU1NSEC
So, what you're saying is, the doomsday vault can't even handle something that isn't even close to a doomsday?
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:00 pm to Floating Change Up
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So, what you're saying is, the doomsday vault can't even handle something that isn't even close to a doomsday?
No, what he is saying is that Doomsday is almost here. Hell, half of the proponents of climate change have predicted a Doomsday date that has already come and gone.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:03 pm to LSU1NSEC
So, "they" have been studying all the what ifs with regards to global climate warming change but they couldn't even foresee the very flooding they predicted jeopardizing our safeguard seed storage?
Top. Men.
Top. Men.
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:51 pm to LSU1NSEC
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It’s the ultimate failsafe if the world’s farms burn or diseases decimate our staples and we have to start over. The facility is supposed to keep these seeds safe for hundreds of years, without human oversight.
So our "ultimate failsafe" isn't even able to protect seeds from minor temperature changes on the planet? That's reassuring. I thought these people were supposed to be the smart ones?
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