[meteorite-list] New crater in Siberia?

From: Michael Mulgrew <mikestang_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:43:40 -0700
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I recognize that regional/localized warming could account for it, but
that's not what they wrote. They should have phrased their hypothesis
better.

Michael in so. Cal.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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