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
Found some facilities, white (drilling/facility pads?) at 70 12.5′ N 68 50′ E.
Says imagery date is 2009, but copyright Digital Globe 2014.
A good set of pictures here:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/first-pictures-from-inside-the-crater-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Bovanenkovo Gas Field ?HQ? at Lat and Long 70 21′ 40″ N 68 26′ 50″ E
I had never heard of a ‘pingo’, so I looked it up. The Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo suggests that pingos are eruptions of the permafrost, rather the reverse of sinkholes, and can look like small volcanic mounds. I suppose that if one formed atop an existing cavern, it might implode and look like the Yamal hole.
I still like the image of a meteorite puncturing the crust over a cavern. They should look in that lake at the bottom.
/Mr Lynn
Man, I wanna become present. Sick of the past
This phenomena has an unique alluvial location along with the accompanying terrain. The surrounding debris field and soil type also make for some interesting speculation as to the possible geologic causes of the vertical displacement. See: New video! Giant hole on Yamal (1:05 & 1:20)