You know when you’ve eaten something dodgy and you get that rumbling in your guts that tells you this is no time to go too far from the throne? Well, that’s sort of what may be going on in the Arctic right now. There’s a definite rumbling across the far
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Politics and its Discontents: I Felt A Chill As I Read This
A week ago came the report of a giant crater in the Siberian permafrost discovered by a Russian helicopter crew. Russian scientists concluded the crater, about 80-metres across, was not the result of a meteor strike but probably was caused by a sub-surface methane explosion. At the time I speculated
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From The Climate-Change File: The Signs Are Getting Increasingly Ominous
A note from The Mound of Sound with the header, The Tundra’s a poppin’ alerted me to this strange tale from the far north in Siberia, where a giant crater has appeared. Says the Mound: Russian helicopter crews stumbled across what appears to be an 80-metre wide crater in Siberia.
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