We continually hear that the Ice cap is melting at an alarming rate but nothing is ever said about Siberia get

Answer 1

The fact that the North Ice Cap never re-froze during winter (i.e. to Siberia) sort of involves Siberia.

Answer 2

Oh yes you do. One just needs to look in the right places.

Climate warning as Siberia melts
11 August 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Fred Pearce

THE world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts, according to Russian researchers just back from the region.

The sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany combined could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

The news of the dramatic transformation of one of the world's least visited landscapes comes from Sergei Kirpotin, a botanist at Tomsk State University, Russia, and Judith Marquand at the University of Oxford.

Go to this link to see the full text - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725124.500

Answer 3

This is not true. Just yesterday I heard a report on NPR about Siberian tundra warming and releasing methane gas into the atmosphere. The reason Siberia doesn't get much attention may be due to the lack of population in a huge region.

Answer 4

Okay - the ice cap is melting and that is going to cause really problems for wildlife, seals, polar bears etc.

Yes sea levels are going to rise, which is really bad, but this is nothing to how much sea levels will rise doe to the expansion of the oceans due to global warming.

If the Siberian tundra thawed it would dump billions of tonnes of CH4 into the atmosphere which would trigger really bad global warming.

The ice cap melting is going to change the path of the north Atlantic conveyor and cause all kinds of problems in Northern Europe.

Global warming is here, it's dangerous, it will kill your grandchildren so do something NOW before it's too late.

Answer 5

So why the hell do Brits moan about the weather if they could they'd have scorching sunshine 12 month of the year melting everything ... keep it cold, damp and miserable and keep it frozen I say.

Answer 6

i think the ice cap is so great that it may be melting but it would take an eternity for it to become alarming. so much hype about things that aren't threatening at all. and if it is what could we do about it anyway?

Answer 7

who cares. all i know is the weathers a lot better and i dont intend being around in a hundred years anyway.