On: Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming

[brlewis]

Title doesn't match the article:

"Permafrost areas hold 500 billion tonnes of carbon, which can fast turn into greenhouse gases," Zimov said.

Only a fraction of that carbon will ever be converted to CO2.

[gwenhwyfaer → brlewis]

In fairness, the title says "carbon", not "carbon dioxide". The article itself fingers methane, though, which is even worse.

Not that the title here isn't quite misleading enough, of course - it's just not misleading in that particular way. ;)

[brlewis → gwenhwyfaer]

It's not misleading at all now, but it originally spoke of 500B tons released into the atmosphere yearly.