Well, shit.

http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/17/nsidc-thawing-permafrost-will-turn-from-carbon-sink-to-source-in-mid-2020s-releasing-100-billion-tons-of-carbon-by-2100/

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The good thing - the best thing - about the new job is this: I will be paid to think about ecological issues (to some degree). And: I'll be teaching.

Good setup to - possibly, maybe - have *some* kind of useful influence sometime, right?

There are several big "IFs" involved, of course.

Haha.

This blog probably has *the* best title I've seen yet in the environmental blogging scene. (The title is "Flailing Wildly at Climate Change", for those who don't feel like following the link. It looks like a really nice blog, though, so following the link probably wouldn't be a terrible idea. Can't promise anything, as it's new to me, too.)