...Over in Siberia, thawing permafrost caused an anthrax outbreak that led to dozens of people being hospitalized and at least one child dying. Two thousand reindeer have been affected thus far and the Russian government has airlifted several families out of the area. The cause of the outbreak? The thawing of a reindeer carcass that had been infected with anthrax decades in the past.
The outbreak occurred on the Yamal Peninsula where massive amounts of methane trapped in the permafrost has exploded out of the ground, leaving large craters.
In response to the re-animated bacteria, Russia sent troops trained for biological warfare to quarantine the area.
This type of disease outbreak in the Arctic was previously the stuff of science fiction, but no longer. Climate scientists fear it may well be a harbinger of what is to come as the Arctic continues to warm at a record-breaking pace. Given that there is no way to know what other kinds of deadly bacterium remain frozen in the Arctic's permafrost, we will find out only as the ice melts the bacteria, which will then re-animate as it did in Russia.
All of this is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. It truly is just a token of what is to come, as global temperatures continue to escalate...
Link: In Arctic, Ancient Diseases Reanimate as Temperatures Hit "Frenzy" of Records
were swallowed by ice?
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I suspect that they deny the science of pre-human global warming.
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I mean, duh.
As you see, Steve is ahead of the curve in worrying about global warming...
The Thing was also defrosted from the tundra, though, right?
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
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or perhaps 2016?
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