ApocaDocs: Scientists may have cracked the giant Siberian crater mystery -- and the news isn't good

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Posted Wed Aug 6 2014: from Washington Post:


	Scientists may have cracked the giant Siberian crater mystery -- and the news isn't good http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1407360820 ...By now, you've heard of the crater on the Yamal Peninsula. It's the one that suddenly appeared, yawning nearly 200 feet in diameter, and made several rounds in the global viral media machine... There's now a substantiated theory about what created the crater. And the news isn't so good. It may be methane gas, released by the thawing of frozen ground. According to a recent Nature article, "air near the bottom of the crater contained unusually high concentrations of methane -- up to 9.6 percent -- ... Some scientists contend the thawing of such terrain, rife with centuries of carbon, would release incredible amounts of methane gas and affect global temperatures.

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