Friday, May 11, 2012

NASA Discovers Yet Another Terrifying Global Warming Feedback Loop

NASA/Public DomainAs if the melting methane-packed permafrost and shrinking Arctic ice sheets weren't enough, NASA scientists have gone and uncovered a brand new feedback loop that could hasten climate catastrophe. Climate feedback loops, to the uninitiated, are phenomena that worsen the warming effect when triggered—which further worsens said phenomena, and around we go.The permafrost is probably the gnarliest: there's a truly

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