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Climate Fact #1

By Ben West ⋅ March 16, 2007 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Share on Facebook

The western Siberian sub-Arctic region has started to thaw for the first time since forming 11,000 years ago. The area, the size of France and Germany combined, could release billions of tones of CO2 into the atmosphere. This would be irreversible and would push up temperatures even more (BBC).