The boreal forests form a ring of trees around the North Pole. These forests house around 30% of the world’s trees. This forest exists in Russia, Canada, the USA, Finland and Norway.
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Extreme weather in the form of floods, cool periods and heatwaves appears to be leading to an increase in the amount of CO2 being emitted because of the extra demand for energy to help with dealing with the effects.
Cost of melting permafrost and resulting release of methane and carbon dioxide from the Arctic calculated by study to be as much as 70 trillion dollars
The Arctic does, unfortunately, have a built-in exaggeration of any heating. The bodies and vegetation of inhabitants of the Arctic have been locked away in the Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth warms this permafrost starts to melt for the first time in millenia releasing this huge store of global warming gases.
Theresa May has no time for halting climate Armageddon because of Brexit
Recently the UK Prime Minister Theresa May made it completely clear that Brexit is taking up all of her attention. While it may be more immediate, climate change is clearly of greater threat.