After 15,000 years, it's waking up

THIS could hold the next antibiotic?   Truly a gold mine on many levels.  Equally, any prehistoric nasties like say a predecessor to anthrax, we could get a head start as the permafrost is at best, going to shift.  So it is going to melt and release and awaken all that dormant history.   Let alone all that methane as the smell you are getting is organic matter breaking down and the permafrost is holding more than all the human waste, landfills that there ever was or will be.   A shocking amount of organic matter is locked up in the global permafrost, and once that methane starts picking up in release, it will only fuel more heat as it traps it in, this will see more ice sheets melt as global temperatures rise more, but whilst co2 will also increase, plant growth will also (water dependant) so shifts in the climate with monsoons becoming more a thing in places, some desert areas will shift, and it will get very dynamic for any weather forcaster.  

So, fun times ahead.  Greenland will become more and more likely to live up to its name.


All that said, the prospect of some rich genius building an artificial moon to block the sun by harvesting its energy so that it can focus upon a small spot on the planet to mine cryptocurrency is perhaps not that impossible in the future, and something that is just going to trigger diehard StarWars fans :).