Category: Arctic greenhouse gases

Time Magazine's Bryan Walsh had a good way today to put into context a new journal report that stokes the long standing fear of a significant new source of greenhouse gases - the warming soils of the arctic tundra and boreal zones. He writes, despite last week's somewhat calming report on a possibly smaller range of climate sensitivity to greenhouse forces, that overall "most of the science on climate change is dire and getting direr."

The news comes via Nature. It is not from a new round of research but from a commentary, or essay, by...