And meanwhile Siberia burns

[timesublime]

What a mess this will cause.

So far fires burn area bigger than Maryland

 

[Strykervet]

Yeah, and while people like to say the rainforests are the "lungs of the world" it's actually the Siberian Taiga that contributes the most to O2 levels on Earth.

 

[timesublime]

Siberian Taiga that contributes the most to O2 levels on Earth.

Of all the 'Forests' yes, but Plankton and cyanobacteria are responsible for 70 percent of Earth's oxygen production.

 

[brianf]

on a positive, our satellites will see the missile bunkers and mobile ICBM's better

 

[MarinePMI]

Hmmm...so how much CO2 has been released into the atmosphere by this?

 

[powdahound76]

But but but.
Its a natural phenomena, not from the DEVIL known as the progress of man.....

Like Krakatoa.

Or that we have been warming at variable rates since the last ice age ended.

Numbers and facts don't matter. Feelings and what some fool says is the truth (with no facts to back it up) matter.

 

[timesublime]

I read an article some time back, a science based one, that concluded that the Tunguska event (2000 Km^2) actually caused a measurable temperature blip. The effects of a burn off of this size will certainly pale those of the 1908 air-burst asteroid.