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I guess the models are failing. The warming in the arctic is apparently worse than anyone predicted.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...f-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts
"It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop. When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide “failsafe” protection against “the challenge of natural or man-made disasters”.
But soaring temperatures in the Arctic at the end of the world’s hottest ever recorded year led to melting and heavy rain, when light snow should have been falling. “It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that,” said Hege Njaa Aschim, from the Norwegian government, which owns the vault."
But I have it on good assurance from some plumber that there really is no warming, and ice isn't melting. I also have it on good assurance from a guy who cuts and pastes denier blogs in his spare time that stories like this are all fake news. I also have talked to engineers who's expertise is in all forms of science (even though they never actually did any) that stuff like this is just exaggerated because of the giant conspiracy. So there's that.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...f-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts
"It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop. When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide “failsafe” protection against “the challenge of natural or man-made disasters”.
But soaring temperatures in the Arctic at the end of the world’s hottest ever recorded year led to melting and heavy rain, when light snow should have been falling. “It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that,” said Hege Njaa Aschim, from the Norwegian government, which owns the vault."
But I have it on good assurance from some plumber that there really is no warming, and ice isn't melting. I also have it on good assurance from a guy who cuts and pastes denier blogs in his spare time that stories like this are all fake news. I also have talked to engineers who's expertise is in all forms of science (even though they never actually did any) that stuff like this is just exaggerated because of the giant conspiracy. So there's that.
