{"id":7844,"date":"2019-06-18T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2019-06-18T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:25:02","slug":"the-poisons-released-by-melting-arctic-ice-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"The poisons released by melting Arctic ice | BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Around 10% of the carbon that does defrost will probably be released as CO2, amounting to 130-150 billion tonnes. That is equivalent to the current rate of total US emissions, every year until 2100. Melting permafrost effectively introduces a new country at number two on the highest emitters list, and one that isn\u2019t accounted for in current IPCC models. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People talk about a carbon bomb,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Natali. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In geological timescales this is not a slow release. It is a pool of carbon that is locked away and is not accounted for in the carbon budget to keep rises below two degrees (Celsius).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190612-the-poisons-released-by-melting-arctic-ice?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR3KYFoDYAiEB2z5YlURC0Jj13LHkrd4MBSvkAJJLkmwLrIISTJ9UadvJDY\">The poisons released by melting Arctic ice\u00c2\u00a0| BBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Around 10% of the carbon that does defrost will probably be released as CO2, amounting to 130-150 billion tonnes. That is equivalent to the current rate of total US emissions, every year until 2100. Melting permafrost effectively introduces a new country at number two on the highest emitters list, and one that isn\u2019t accounted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}