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To: Brumar89 who wrote (964633)	9/15/2016 6:21:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576613

"Arrhenius said Siberia was going to be a new breadbasket. He's been wrong about that so far." Uh, oh. Maybe that's cuz it is exploding. I don't think he saw that one coming. Don't want farmers and equipment flying into the sky. Giant holes are bursting open in Siberia, and you can hear the explosions from 60 miles away So how does frozen methane blow a 100-foot-wide hole in the ground? Given low enough temperatures and high enough pressure, methane and water can freeze together into what’s called a "methane hydrate." Permafrost keeps everything bottled up but when it thaws, so does the hydrate. Methane is released as a gas, building up pressure — until the ground explodes. techinsider.io A 100-foot-wide permafrost crater in Siberia's Yamal Peninsula.