Welcome to The Global Warming Foundation.
The purpose of this site is to inform you about Global Warming. We endeavor to compile all the latest weather related articles and news stories from around the world to keep you informed.
At this point, there is no question of whether Global Warming is coming. It is already here. We at The Global Warming Foundation are tracking the increased number of global weather affects. We have gone from a time when severe weather events were rare to this juncture when we see bizarre, damaging, and even deadly weather events occurring multiple times each week, if not daily. We realize that different people are at different levels of realization, which range from oblivious; to denial; to green/ helpful; to ensuring survival. Our raison d’etre is to be of service for all those who suffer the concerns of living in the reality of this unprecedented change. Where we see a need, we are filling it. See below, and you will find a compilation of recent world weather events. Scroll down and find how much is happening so quickly. You will find other help with our links.
Our next project is to develop estimates of timing. We know that the frequency of weather events is increasing, and we are plotting the curve on which we are now progressing. Next, we will build a network of volunteer correspondents around the globe, where their reports will be calculated and visualized individually and collectively.
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South Florida's winter the coldest in almost 30 years
-03.01.10- Everyone north of Lake Okeechobee will scoff, but it's been one brutal winter in supposedly sunny South Florida.
It's been the coldest three months in nearly four decades, the National Weather Service reported Monday, officially confirming readings from such less precise gauges as popsicle toes and frozen iguanas.
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Man drowns as heavy rain brings flood warnings to Queensland
-03.01.10- A MAN has drowned after falling off his motorcycle into a flooded creek as parts of Queensland receive their heaviest rain in 100 years. ... (
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Storm Xynthia gives way to calm and fog
-02.28.10- At least 45 people died as the weekends' storm past over Spain, Portugal and France. The storm, called Xynthia by the French meteorological authorities, is expected to hit Germany and Poland on Sunday evening. Gusts of up to 95mph were reported in the Bay of Biscay. ... (
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Rain triggers deadly floods in Haiti
-02.28.10- At least eight people have been killed in floods triggered by heavy rain in Haiti, officials have said.... (
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Storm batters Europe, at least 55 dead
-02.28.10- A winter storm named "Xynthia" battered the western coast of Europe Sunday, its high winds downing trees and power lines and leaving as many as 55 people dead, authorities said.
Hardest hit was France, where at least 45 people were killed, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced.
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Haiti floods, mudslides kill at least 11
-02.28.10- The death toll from flooding in quake-hit Haiti on Saturday rose to at least 11, according to an AFP compilation of fatalities counted by officials and a journalist in the region.
"The situation is grave... Whole areas are completely flooded. People have climbed on to the roofs of their homes," a local senator, Francky Exius, told AFP by telephone.
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900 ships stranded amid drought in S China
-02.28.10- Nine hundred ships jammed before a navigation lock of a reservoir in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region amid falling water level caused by severe drought, local authorities said Saturday.... (
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Severe drought to persist in SW China
-02.27.10- Severe drought will continue to ravage southwest China as no major rainfalls are expected in the next three days, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) warned on Saturday.
Experts with the CMA also urged local governments in provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to take necessary water-saving measures and to prevent forest fire.
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1 million powerless as winter storm pounds Northeast
-02.27.10- A slow-moving winter storm smacked the Northeast on Friday, unleashing heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds as it knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses. It turned Maine beachfront streets into rivers and piled on the misery in places hit by three major blizzards in less than a month.... (
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Warnings as heavy rainfall causes flooding in UK
-02.27.10- Parts of the UK have been hit by floods, with heavy rains and wind forecast to continue over the weekend. ... (
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More landslips hit Bervie Braes
-02.26.10- More landslips have taken place at Bervie Braes in Stonehaven, where about 100 households have been evacuated.... (
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Iceberg breaks in Antarctica not where expected
-02.26.10- the dramatic crash of an iceberg against a glacier that dislodged a massive new chunk of ice, the mysterious continent of Antarctica once again did the unexpected.... (
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Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica's coast
-02.26.10- An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.... (
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Coffee hit by global warming say growers
-02.26.10- Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk.... (
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Giant Antarctic iceberg could affect global ocean circulation
-02.26.10- An iceberg the size of Luxembourg that contains enough fresh water to supply a third of the world's population for a year has broken off in the Antarctic continent, with possible implications for global ocean circulation, scientists said today.... (
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World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists
-02.25.10- The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.... (
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South Africa - Heatwave kills more than 2,000 ostriches
-02.25.10- More than 2 000 ostriches have died in the Klein Karoo, as temperatures soared to more than 50°C in February
.This follows the announcement that ostrich farmers in the drought-stricken southern Cape would not be benefiting from the R26,9 million in drought relief made available by the National Treasury for embattled livestock farmers in the Eden district.
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Winter in Mongolia is 'an unfolding disaster'
-02.25.10- Officials in Ulaanbaatar, the snowbound capital, have declared disaster status in more than half of Mongolia's 21 provinces, and more are set to follow across the vast, sparsely populated nation, roughly the size of Alaska.
After weeks of heavy snowfalls, fierce winds and temperatures as low as minus-58 degrees, 2.3 million livestock have perished and an additional 3 million may die by spring, according to the Mongolian government.
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MALAWI: Extra Money Allocated for Drought Relief
-02.25.10- Maize farmer Anita Yunus has lived near the Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi for over 30 years. And she does not remember there ever being a drought in the area.
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CLIMATE-PERU: El Niño Throws a Tantrum
-02.24.10- Peru's lack of disaster prevention policies and measures, combined with climate imbalances in South America, have led to the loss of dozens of lives and thousands of homes in this Andean country in the last few months.
Excessive rains have caused damages in northern Peru, but the worst precipitation occurred in Cuzco, in the south, where a month's worth of rain fell in just three days.
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Indonesian landslide death toll, number of missing rise
-02.24.10- About 60 people are missing and six dead have been found after a landslide at a tea plantation in Indonesia's West Java province, a disaster relief agency official said on Wednesday, as the military searched for survivors.... (
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7.5M people lack water due to drought in SW China
-02.24.10- A severe drought over the past months has left 7.5 million people and more than 4 million head of livestock without adequate drinking water in two southwestern Chinese provinces, local authorities said Tuesday.... (
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Venezuelan drought reveals a long-submerged town
-02.24.10- For most Venezuelans, the El Nino-linked drought that has struck the country this year means inconveniences like power and water rationing.
But for some, the extreme dry spell is stirring up bittersweet memories. The Uribante reservoir that feeds a hydroelectric dam here is at its lowest level in decades, and the receding waters have uncovered a village that has been mostly underwater since 1985, when it was flooded.
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17P is now a fading depression
-02.23.10- Tropical cyclone 17P has had a brief life. After becoming a tropical storm yesterday, atmospheric conditions have weakened the cyclone back down to tropical depression status today, February 23 and it is expected to dissipate in the next couple of days.... (
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Storm dumps 8 inches of snow on parts of Michigan
-02.23.10- A winter storm that dumped 8 inches of snow on parts of southern lower Michigan has closed dozens of schools, caused numerous spinouts and left drivers to battle slippery, snarled roads.... (
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Cold Snaps Plus Global Warming Do Add Up
-02.23.10- To many people’s confusion, these weather events happened against a backdrop of increasing man-made greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere that are gradually warming the planet. But scientists stress this weather does not mean that those gases are no longer exerting a warming influence. Nor does it go against the grain of basic global warming theory. Cold snaps and bouts of natural cooling that could last years are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend, forced by man-made emissions. ... (
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Ice shelves disappearing on Antarctic Peninsula
-02.22.10- Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.... (
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THREE TIMES THE AVERAGE: Record snowfall blankets Moscow
-02.22.10- The snow depth breaks a record set in 1966, when snow drifts measured 62 centimetres, the weather centre said. Moscow was blanketed with a record-breaking 63 centimetres (nearly 25 inches) of snow on Monday, the regional weather centre said.... (
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Climate change melts Antarctic ice shelves: USGS
-02.22.10- Climate change is melting the floating ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, giving scientists a preview of what could happen if other ice shelves around the southern continent disappear, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday.... (
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Winter storm hits Kansas; several die on slick roads
-02.21.10- A mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow caused numerous accidents, several of them fatal, in Kansas, authorities said Sunday.... (
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Portugal floods kill 42; some feared buried
-02.21.10- Rescue workers in Madeira dug through heaps of mud, boulders and debris Sunday, searching for victims buried by floods and mudslides that have killed at least 42 people on the popular Portuguese island.
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Weather Service warns of increased chance of flooding in Montevideo and Granite Falls
-02.20.10- A newly issued forecast raises the potential for flood problems along the Minnesota River in Montevideo and Granite Falls this spring. ... (
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Second storm snarls traffic in Argentina
-02.20.10- Traffic came to a standstill and subway service was suspended Friday in much of Buenos Aires during its second heavy downpour since Monday, the country's official news agency Telam reported.... (
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Floods kill at least 5 in Madeira - reports
-02.20.10- At least five people were killed by floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains on Saturday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, a popular tourist destination, local media said.
State-run news agency Lusa quoted officials at the mayor's office in Madeira's capital Funchal as saying five people died and 17 were in hospital.
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Small and mighty cyclone Gelane reaches category 4 strength
-02.19.10- NASA satellites monitoring and studying Cyclone Gelane over the last several days have watched the storm become more powerful and more compact. Gelane is now a powerful category four cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some regional warnings have been posted for this weekend as the storm approaches.... (
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Missing 'Ice Arches' Contributed to 2007 Arctic Ice Loss
-02.19.10- In 2007, the Arctic lost a massive amount of thick, multiyear sea ice, contributing to that year's record-low extent of Arctic sea ice. A new NASA-led study has found that the record loss that year was due in part to the absence of "ice arches," naturally-forming, curved ice structures that span the openings between two land points. These arches block sea ice from being pushed by winds or currents through narrow passages and out of the Arctic basin.... (
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Snow sparks more Aberdeenshire school closures
-02.19.10- A severe weather warning has been issued for the Grampian area over heavy snow.... (
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Mongolia: Life in the extreme cold
-02.19.10- The United Nations has warned that extreme winter weather has killed more than one million livestock animals in Mongolia and is likely to harm the country's food supply and worsen poverty. ... (
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Weather continues to disrupt the Olympics
-02.19.10- As Vancouver sees more unseasonably mild weather, western Europe and the eastern US continue colder than normal.... (
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Governor: Spring Flooding Certain In Eastern SD
-02.19.10- Governor Mike Rounds says state and local agencies have started preparations for dealing with spring flooding that will hit rivers in eastern South Dakota as snow begins to melt.... (
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Philippines ‘Bracing for the Worst’ in Drought
-02.19.10- A drought in the Philippines has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops, reduced the country’s water supply and is threatening widespread blackouts as power companies contend with low water levels in hydroelectric dams, officials said Friday.
“It is such a difficult situation because we have just survived the typhoons in October that destroyed 1.5 million metric tons of rice and countless basic infrastructure,” Joel Rudinas, an under secretary at the Department of Agriculture, said Friday. “We are bracing for the worst.”
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Drought concerns plague Syrian farmers
-02.19.10- Pervasive drought in northeastern Syria sparked the largest wave of internal displacement in the region in years, U.N. agricultural officials said.
Outdated irrigation systems and chronic drought pushes 1 million poverty-stricken farmers to look elsewhere for their livelihood, the U.N.'s humanitarian news agency IRIN reports.
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Haiti shelter emergency as rain turns camps to mud
-02.18.10- Providing shelter for hundreds of thousands of homeless earthquake victims in Haiti jumped to the top of the country's relief priorities on Thursday after heavy rain turned makeshift survivors' camps into muddy quagmires.
Several hours of overnight rain, much of it torrential, battered the thousands of crude cloth tents and huts in the quake-shattered capital Port-au-Prince, turning the ground between them to mud and soaking their occupants.
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Tajikistan facing water shortages and climate extremes, report warns
-02.17.10- Falling supplies due to rising temperatures and retreating glaciers could spark conflict between water-stressed countries in the region, says Oxfam... (
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Drought could cause US$14.7m in crop losses
-02.17.10- Drought conditions in Guyana, caused by a lingering El Nino, is threatening to cause billions of dollars in damage to the agriculture sector and officials say they are doing all they can to, at least, limit the losses. ... (
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Yemen's water crisis eclipses al Qaeda threat
-02.17.10- Yemeni water trader Mohammed al-Tawwa runs his diesel pumps day and night, but gets less and less from his well in Sanaa, which experts say could become the world's first capital city to run dry.... (
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Permafrost line recedes 130 km in 50 years
-02.17.10- The southern limit of permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is now 130 kilometers further north than it was 50 years ago in the James Bay region, according to two researchers from the Department of Biology at Université Laval. In a recent issue of the scientific journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, Serge Payette and Simon Thibault suggest that, if the trend continues, permafrost in the region will completely disappear in the near future.... (
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February is the snowiest ever in Cincinnati
-02.17.10- Cincinnati has set a February snowfall record, and other Ohio cities are getting close as the state continues its recovery from the month's third big winter storm.... (
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Winter storm wreaks travel havoc in Mass.
-02.16.10- A week after the winter storm that wasn't, Massachusetts has been hit by the storm that was.... (
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PHILIPPINES: Thousands still displaced after Ketsana
-02.16.10- Nearly five months after tropical storm Ketsana and two typhoons ravaged northern Philippines, evacuation centres are starting to close but thousands of people are still displaced, aid workers say...On 26 September, tropical storm Ketsana inundated 80 percent of Manila on the island of Luzon, home to some 12 million people.
A week later, Typhoon Parma made landfall, drastically affecting outlying regions that were already heavily flooded. Typhoon Mirinae wreaked additional havoc at the end of October. The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) [http://www.ndcc.gov.ph] says more than 10 million people were affected.
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-02.28.10- Nine hundred ships jammed before a navigation lock of a reservoir in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region amid falling water level caused by severe drought, local authorities said Saturday.... (
-02.27.10- A slow-moving winter storm smacked the Northeast on Friday, unleashing heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds as it knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses. It turned Maine beachfront streets into rivers and piled on the misery in places hit by three major blizzards in less than a month.... (
-02.26.10- More landslips have taken place at Bervie Braes in Stonehaven, where about 100 households have been evacuated.... (
-02.26.10- the dramatic crash of an iceberg against a glacier that dislodged a massive new chunk of ice, the mysterious continent of Antarctica once again did the unexpected.... (
-02.26.10- An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.... (
-02.26.10- Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk.... (
-02.26.10- An iceberg the size of Luxembourg that contains enough fresh water to supply a third of the world's population for a year has broken off in the Antarctic continent, with possible implications for global ocean circulation, scientists said today.... (
-02.25.10- Officials in Ulaanbaatar, the snowbound capital, have declared disaster status in more than half of Mongolia's 21 provinces, and more are set to follow across the vast, sparsely populated nation, roughly the size of Alaska.
After weeks of heavy snowfalls, fierce winds and temperatures as low as minus-58 degrees, 2.3 million livestock have perished and an additional 3 million may die by spring, according to the Mongolian government.
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-02.24.10- A severe drought over the past months has left 7.5 million people and more than 4 million head of livestock without adequate drinking water in two southwestern Chinese provinces, local authorities said Tuesday.... (
-02.23.10- Tropical cyclone 17P has had a brief life. After becoming a tropical storm yesterday, atmospheric conditions have weakened the cyclone back down to tropical depression status today, February 23 and it is expected to dissipate in the next couple of days.... (
-02.23.10- To many people’s confusion, these weather events happened against a backdrop of increasing man-made greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere that are gradually warming the planet. But scientists stress this weather does not mean that those gases are no longer exerting a warming influence. Nor does it go against the grain of basic global warming theory. Cold snaps and bouts of natural cooling that could last years are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend, forced by man-made emissions. ... (
-02.22.10- Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.... (
-02.22.10- The snow depth breaks a record set in 1966, when snow drifts measured 62 centimetres, the weather centre said. Moscow was blanketed with a record-breaking 63 centimetres (nearly 25 inches) of snow on Monday, the regional weather centre said.... (
-02.20.10- Traffic came to a standstill and subway service was suspended Friday in much of Buenos Aires during its second heavy downpour since Monday, the country's official news agency Telam reported.... (
-02.19.10- NASA satellites monitoring and studying Cyclone Gelane over the last several days have watched the storm become more powerful and more compact. Gelane is now a powerful category four cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some regional warnings have been posted for this weekend as the storm approaches.... (
-02.19.10- In 2007, the Arctic lost a massive amount of thick, multiyear sea ice, contributing to that year's record-low extent of Arctic sea ice. A new NASA-led study has found that the record loss that year was due in part to the absence of "ice arches," naturally-forming, curved ice structures that span the openings between two land points. These arches block sea ice from being pushed by winds or currents through narrow passages and out of the Arctic basin.... (
-02.19.10- A severe weather warning has been issued for the Grampian area over heavy snow.... (
-02.19.10- The United Nations has warned that extreme winter weather has killed more than one million livestock animals in Mongolia and is likely to harm the country's food supply and worsen poverty. ... (
-02.19.10- Governor Mike Rounds says state and local agencies have started preparations for dealing with spring flooding that will hit rivers in eastern South Dakota as snow begins to melt.... (
-02.19.10- A drought in the Philippines has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops, reduced the country’s water supply and is threatening widespread blackouts as power companies contend with low water levels in hydroelectric dams, officials said Friday.
“It is such a difficult situation because we have just survived the typhoons in October that destroyed 1.5 million metric tons of rice and countless basic infrastructure,” Joel Rudinas, an under secretary at the Department of Agriculture, said Friday. “We are bracing for the worst.”
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-02.17.10- The southern limit of permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is now 130 kilometers further north than it was 50 years ago in the James Bay region, according to two researchers from the Department of Biology at Université Laval. In a recent issue of the scientific journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, Serge Payette and Simon Thibault suggest that, if the trend continues, permafrost in the region will completely disappear in the near future.... (