Permafrost Quotes

Today was a good day for resuming the dialogue and discussion that forms part of the NATO-Russia relationship... We've moved from permafrost into slightly softer ground. - George Robertson

There's a lot of carbon stored in the soil. If the permafrost does thaw, as our model predicts, it could have a major influence on climate. - David Lawrence

The form of the water [for example, liquid, permafrost, or impregnated in minerals] depends on many things, such as the distance that the asteroid formed from the Sun (and therefore its temperature) and what internal heat the asteroid has since generated. - Peter Thomas

Thawing permafrost could send considerable amounts of water to the oceans. - Andrew Slater

People have used models to study permafrost before, but not within a fully interactive climate system model. - David Lawrence

Once you have a break in Dawson, it saturates all the ground around it. If that's a permafrost area, it stays saturated and you have seriously weakened the infrastructure around the whole area. - Norm Carlson

If the permafrost does thaw, as our model predicts, it could have a major influence on climate. - David Lawrence

If that much near-surface permafrost thaws, it could release considerable amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and that could amplify global warming. We could be underestimating the rate of global temperature increase. - David Lawrence

Dramatic discoveries ... about recent gullies, near-surface permafrost and ancient surface water have given us a new Mars in the past few years. - Michael Meyer