[HN Gopher] Methylmercury in thawing permafrost
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       Methylmercury in thawing permafrost
        
       Author : clouddrover
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-03-19 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | adhesive_wombat wrote:
       | > Trapped in all that permafrost is 30 billion tonnes of carbon.
       | It's an unfathomable amount, says Kirkwood.
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       | It's a lot, but it's a little over 7 months of anthropogenic
       | emissions, which, while decidedly unhelpful in the "make it to
       | 2100" stakes, seems also fathomable.
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       | This assumes it's CO2e being talked about. If it's 30 billion
       | tonnes of carbon in methane, that's...rather more suboptimal,
       | since that would be something like 15 years worth of human.
        
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