<story><title>Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/melting-russian-permafrost-could-speed-up-global-warming-devastating-global-effect/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s isolated to Russia either.&lt;p&gt;Alaska just reported their hottest June ever (It&amp;#x27;s in the 90&amp;#x27;s in a lot of places now), and the Yukon is seeing massive, massive climate changes in recent years.&lt;p&gt;The annual Redezvous festival used to be held ON the Yukon River in downtown Whitehorse. Friends tell of driving onto the river, having huge bonfires, etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;It hasn&amp;#x27;t even frozen over enough to walk on in a decade or more, and now it actually goes above freezing in January most years..... even 20 years ago it wouldn&amp;#x27;t go above -40 for all of Dec&amp;#x2F;Jan.&lt;p&gt;Things are changing very, very fast in the North.</text></comment>
<story><title>Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/melting-russian-permafrost-could-speed-up-global-warming-devastating-global-effect/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aoeusnth1</author><text>We need coordinated, urgent political action on climate change. We already have the technology needed to solve this - we just need to deploy it. Now.</text></comment>