Comments on: Arctic basin Ice volume projections by month https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/ Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44036 DanS Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:04:20 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44036 Well, actually bronto-burgers, but that's a bit far-fetched. ;^) Well, actually bronto-burgers, but that’s a bit far-fetched.
;^)

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44035 RL Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:34:00 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44035 Is this the kind of world we want to bring a wooly mammoth into? Is this the kind of world we want to bring a wooly mammoth into?

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44031 DanS Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:26:42 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44031 As it is, Dr. Zimov has managed to lower the temperature of the permafrost in the Pleistocene Park and he had just received a new shipment of northern bison, so he may be doing something very right. As it is, Dr. Zimov has managed to lower the temperature of the permafrost in the Pleistocene Park and he had just received a new shipment of northern bison, so he may be doing something very right.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44030 DanS Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:22:09 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44030 When the tundra thaws over the next 30 years, the release of nearly 2.6 million years of trapped carbon and methane over that 30-year period will make the last 100 years of fossil fuel use look like nothing. I do not have the numbers mentioned in the 60 Minutes report, but they were monstrous. When the tundra thaws over the next 30 years, the release of nearly 2.6 million years of trapped carbon and methane over that 30-year period will make the last 100 years of fossil fuel use look like nothing. I do not have the numbers mentioned in the 60 Minutes report, but they were monstrous.

]]> By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44029 hank Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:16:12 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44029 it might be more effective if we just figured out ways of burning less oil. And the Russians are gearing up big time to exploit the petroleum resources of their Arctic regions now that all that pesky ice is being rolled back. it might be more effective if we just figured out ways of burning less oil.

And the Russians are gearing up big time to exploit the petroleum resources of their Arctic regions now that all that pesky ice is being rolled back.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/02/02/arctic-basin-ice-volume-projections-by-month/#comment-44028 DanS Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:07:39 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=80013#comment-44028 Apparently not everyone is just sitting on their hands waiting... Watching 60 Minutes today, there was a pretty good feature on the works of the Russian director of Northeast Scientific Station, a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences located in Siberia, geophysicist Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov. He is a specialist in arctic and subarctic ecology, working with his son at a site colloquially known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park" rel="nofollow">Pleistocene Park</a> to revitalize the northern tundra as it had been in the thick of the last Ice Age. The goal is to assist in the battle against Global Warming. Natural heaters like shrubs and trees need to be removed, replacing with tundra grasses and repopulating the region with large mammals, such as the grey wolf, cave hyena, Homotherium (an extinct genus of machairodontine saber-toothed cats), brown bear, wolverine, and Arctic fox. Also on the agenda are woolly bison and mammoths. The big cats will be needed to keep the mammoth population in check. <center><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Homotherium_serum_life-restoration.jpg" width="500" height="300"></center> According to the 60 Minutes interview, all this is already underway and there is work to rebuild these extinct creatures from DNA samples revered from the thawing permafrost. My brother pointed out that "...the saber-toothed tigers will likely eat the scientists." I replied "How Jurassic Park of you." Apparently not everyone is just sitting on their hands waiting…

Watching 60 Minutes today, there was a pretty good feature on the works of the Russian director of Northeast Scientific Station, a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences located in Siberia, geophysicist Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov.

He is a specialist in arctic and subarctic ecology, working with his son at a site colloquially known as Pleistocene Park to revitalize the northern tundra as it had been in the thick of the last Ice Age. The goal is to assist in the battle against Global Warming.

Natural heaters like shrubs and trees need to be removed, replacing with tundra grasses and repopulating the region with large mammals, such as the grey wolf, cave hyena, Homotherium (an extinct genus of machairodontine saber-toothed cats), brown bear, wolverine, and Arctic fox. Also on the agenda are woolly bison and mammoths. The big cats will be needed to keep the mammoth population in check.

According to the 60 Minutes interview, all this is already underway and there is work to rebuild these extinct creatures from DNA samples revered from the thawing permafrost.

My brother pointed out that “…the saber-toothed tigers will likely eat the scientists.”

I replied “How Jurassic Park of you.”

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