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
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UnFounded Onubilating?
Why crazy? After all, the Corvette museum also disappeared in a hole due to climate change only recently 🙂
The comments are also true to Daily Mail’s form: somebody asking where the millions of tons of soil have gone to… WTF.
Let’s see… It is 80m wide, so the area is 3*40*40, and 80meters deep gives 400.000 cubic Meters. That’s 400K tons, not millions. As a side note, of course there wasn’t that much soil in the first place, or else where was the exploding gas hiding? Other Daily Mailers like to see the result of a nuclear explosion. Please stop posting DM “news “…
It is not likely to be a sinkole. I do not beleive sinkholes can create a substantial ring of piled up material around the central feature like that.
If the material is very soft, it could have been a small meteor.
If it was a meteor, then it is proof of global warming causing more meteor/asteroid strikes. ;^)
It is fairly mysterious, actually. Manmade? Where are the roads and tread/wheel marks?
Methane explosion? Hmmmmmmm that is not so likely either.
I hope the canary is OK.
Once upon a time there was a tree, a very lonely tree.
It came to be the chosen tree of Mann.
Sadly, it didn’t know that it carried the whole weight of global warming on its tree rings.
Eventually, the heavy responsibility it felt for Mann’s AGW began to bear down on its roots and it sank.
Ignominiously.
Into the tundra beneath.
The gaping hole it left behind was directly proportional to the one in the global warming hypothesis.
RIP Tree of Yamal – TOY to your friends – and much played with by Mann..
Global warming. That’s one hole in end of the earth Russia. Report back when these things are popping up everywhere.
If you look at the Yamal from above it’s covered in circular pools. Perhaps they all started this way?
Well, let me see now. Since “Global Warming” is said to be caused by the magic molecule CO2, and this hole is said to be caused by “Global Warming”; that means CO2 caused this hole. CO2 can do anything!
As someone said some time ago,
“If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen Yamal”….. (sorry)….
(or for the Gian Carlo Menotti fans, Yamal and the Night Visitors…)
Obviously this is nothing more or less than the terminus of the alimentary canal of Gaia. It always has bean (so to speak).
What’s the black stuff on the bottom, is it water, or is it just a deep whole?
Assume warming is the cause. Are there diagnostic tools that could distinguish between global warming and local warming as the relevant factor? If so, wouldn’t one have to spend a week or two examining the site?
temperatures have been going down in Siberia….
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/Sywk8yHIEGI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/R2s5gdDCZKc/s400/weatherSiberia88stationsGSImgtmp4361.png
We found the missing heat!
Lou said:
July 15, 2014 at 2:26 pm
Are we sure it isn’t one of their underground nuclear testing?
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You gotta point – Yamal ain’t that far from Novaya Zemlya.
It was Michael Mann’s Yamal tree.
The Hockey Stick made it so hot, it exploded!
BB King redux – “The Tree is Gone”
Sing along, y’all. “I’m free from your spell”
For us Unix geeks: sed ‘s/[Tt]hrill/tree/’ Thrill_Is_Gone.lyrics >Tree_Is_Gone.lyrics
I wonder how many skeptics’ first thought on seeing a hole in the world in Yamal was the miracle tree. The Mann-made gift that keeps on giving 🙂
Methinks there is a “mixture of water, salt and gas” in said “scientist’s” brain.
Those Russians and their holes:
Kola Superdeep Borehole
Mir Diamond Pipe
“We will bury you”
It certainly doesn’t look like a sinkhole, with that ring of ejecta. But the ejecta don’t seem to have been ejected very far, so not likely a meteorite crater. Perhaps a maar explosion??
Everyone is missing the truly spooky explanation. WHAT THE HECK CRAWLED OUTTA THAT THING! Looks like a 13-year locust hole. Maybe it’s a 75-million-year locust hole! Probably headed for the California Redwood forests.
It’s a sink hole caused by the roof of a cavern falling in.
We get lots of them up here in the Yorkshire Dales, some are enormous, Gaping Ghyll for example is so large St. Paul’s Cathedral will fit in it.
For anyone of you who might be familiar with the Dante’s divine comedy, that photograph does remind me of the City of Dis. It was on of the nine circles of hell, the one reserved for fraud and violence. It’s even rumoured to be guarded by fallen angels …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)
Pointman
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OOPS! I misspelled a word I use everyday!
That should be:
” Gunga Din says:
July 15, 2014 at 2:58 pm
Elmer says:
July 15, 2014 at 2:34 pm
The good news is global warming is now being lumped in with things like UFOs.
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Aside from the audio of helicopter noises, there isn’t much in the video to give a solid indication of scale. Also, I think the sides of the hole below the actual debris mound are too vertical and too smooth to be any kind of natural phenomenon (meteor/volcano) or explosion(natural or man made). I think it’s ja bore hole that someone took up close video of and spliced on the helicopter sound track..