Killer Ice! Killer Ice!

Killer Ice! Killer Ice!

FIRST there were flatulent bovines, THEN there was the leaking Amazon, NOW (dramatic pause with Al Gore screaming in background) there's Seeping Siberia!

AOL's most emailed news article today is the shocking story out of Nature magazine that scientists have found that melting Siberia is releasing massive quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, hitherto safely trapped in permafrost, into the atmosphere. In Malthusian horror the methane will trap more heat which will cause more melting which will release more methane which will necessitate everyone moving to Kansas or some similar far-from-the-encroaching coastline locale.

This report follows one in Nature about a year ago that flummoxed scientists had found massive quantities of methane in the air over, of all places, the good old Amazon. There decomposing plant material was the culprit.

And before that (we are not making this up), cows passing gas was identified as a major source of methane.

So forget buying that Prius, cancel that order for solar panels, our real enemy is mother, MOTHER NATURE!

Our solution (admittedly very think-outside-the-boxy) is parking lots. That's right, PARKING LOTS. Turn the Amazon into a CONCRETE jungle, pave over Seeping Siberia (get all the oil out first). That place has been useless forever anyway. This is Public Occurrences.