I kid you not. The level of stupid here is unprecedented. Forget the UFO theories, or the fact that it is Yamal, which started Climategate through the distortion of tree ring data and the witholding of FOI requests on the issue, or forget that Yamal is roughly translated as ‘End of The World’, no, forget all those. This statement from a supposed scientist takes climate craziness to a whole new level. Video follows.
Anna Kurchatova from the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre, thinks the crater was formed by a mixture of water, salt and gas igniting an underground explosion, a result of global warming.
h/t to WUWT contributor, John Goetz
1 Is the posited explosion possible? I – with limited access to the literature – am not aware of one – certainly not one associated with water, salt, and gas igniting.
And the proposed mechanism is – pray? (Ah – that may be my ignorance!! but I’ve never sorted this. . . .
I did not read the entire article, but what the Russians said did not seem to be so crazy:
Global warming releasing to me (and I am no expert at how the Russians phrase things) means that the gasses released by the crater are a part of the global warming cadre. Which is not unheard of. Methane explosions happen all the time.
And then on second thought, it could be they are saying that global warming released the gas. I guess you have to read it a couple of times. in that case, we do not have to worry about fracking. Global warming is now skynet and is self sustaining.
Anna Kurchatova from the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre, thinks the crater was formed by a mixture of water, salt and gas igniting an underground explosion, a result of global warming.
Is that a misprint?
Shouldn’t that be “…a result of global underground warming”?
/grin
Uh, can anyone say “Earth farts”?
Just askin’?
/grin
More likely it was caused by one of those global warming meteorites. [/sarc]
Sorry about that last one, but anytime I see a topic titled “Climate Craziness”,
I fell it is a person call to post something.
If this is not caused by global warming – what is?
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Al Gore said it’s already 1,000,000°F down there.
(Or was that C? Guess it doesn’t matter much when it’s that hot.)
Ant, You Should do a poll on what caused it before they arrive on site to figure it out.
I say it was caused by an under ground volcanic like feature.
#earthburp
It also looksblike it has been there for several months or longer due to the soil erosion around the rim of the crater.
“Warming” did this? Maybe they should check a few of the local treemometers for confirmation.
[no, we’ll not have another threadjacking with links to your studies – Anthony]
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Maybe Global Warming causes Global Acne?
Are we sure it isn’t one of their underground nuclear testing?
I didn’t see anything to indicate scale. Someone probably set a teapot on the ground and it melted down through until it wasn’t visible. Then they did the shaky camera thing while walking around the hole and recording, ya think? ;o)
Say the magic word and bring down the duck, umm, grant…..
The good news is global warming is now being lumped in with things like UFOs.
Maybe something lost in translation?
97% of global warming IS caused by things like UFOs !!…
or was it 97% of things like UFOs are caused by global warming ….?
anyway, send grant money & I’ll make a model (I got lots of paper & glue). :-))
“Global warming may have caused an ‘alarming’ melt in the under-soil ice, released gas and causing an effect like the popping of a Champagne bottle cork, Ms Kurchatova suggests.”
Global warming must be an amazing phenomenon. Capable of melting lower levels of ice, yet leaving the surface unmelted. It couldn’t be radiant heat; it couldn’t be convective heat; so, it must have been conducted heat. But heat rises …………
Oh, and the released methane from the melted ice, being lighter than air, would have vented to safety.
An explosion would have been seismologically detected & reported.
What a load of bullshit.
Impact crater? – most certainly not. Search “Gene Shoemaker USGS”
Gaseous vent? Possible. The venting velocity appears quite gentle, as nothing is thrown far from the throat. No ejecta rays indicating high velocity exhaust.
Jumbled appearance of ejecta may indicate permafrost blocks that subsequently sublimed.
But global warming? Anyone who has worked in shallow underground shafts, caves, or (even) basements knows that the temperature is nearly static below about 10 feet, regardless of outside air temperature.
Sheesh!
That’s the second biggest gopher hole I ever saw!
I’ll place my bet on a longshot that global warming causes mediocre fake crater footage to be combined with helicopter audio.
Here’s my theory. There was no explosion. It’s a sinkhole. Based on the evidence in the video there’s not enough material around the hole to indicate an explosion. Instead it looks like a deposit of debris from water flowing into the hole. I think the sink hole formed under a large shallow lake and the water flowing into the whole washed it clean. It looks like a natural cavern in the bottom of the sinkhole. It is difficult to tell the size, but there could be a massive underground cavern complex there. If we knew the exact coordinates of the hole we could google earth it and see if there was a lake there before.
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Somewhere there’s a hole in her theory.