[meteorite-list] New crater in Siberia?

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:32:33 -0400
Message-ID: <CALpO9HevgQ6G-A0EBcNoYwamJNGWJg0rAo5VQ2V1bHnFpUmr7w_at_mail.gmail.com>

Don't dismiss something just because it uses the phrase "Global
Warming." In this case all it takes is regional warming in the arctic
circle to release methane previously frozen in the permafrost, which
can ignite underground and explode.



On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Their "most plausible theory" involves global warming? Global warming
> isn't even a plausible theory any more, ask a climatologist.
>
> This article acknowleges that it is not a meteorite crater, which is
> apparent from the pictures:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2693105/Giant-hole-appears-Siberia-Huge-crater-emerges-end-world.html
>
> "A spokesman for the ministry's Yamal branch has ruled out a
> meteorite, but says it is too early to say what caused the hole.
>
> 'We can definitely say that it is not a meteorite,' he says."
>
> Michael in so. Cal.
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>> This is not a meteorite crater, unless you think meteorites drill holes hundreds of feet deep.
>>
>> Michael Farmer
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Jul 16, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Chauncey Walden via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/10970468/Mysterious-giant-hole-appears-in-Siberia.html
>>> Chauncey
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