Wed. 10/27 - Permafrost Thaw May Unleash Radioactive Waste & Bacteria
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cocky ride home for for Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. |
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| 0:42.7 | It turns out that melting permafrost could unleash Cold War era radioactive waste |
| 0:48.8 | and millions of years old antibiotic resistant bacteria. |
| 0:53.6 | Cool, cool, cool, cool. Plus, a look back at when |
| 0:57.3 | picnicking in cemeteries was a common pastime, and not just for goths. And the annual drop of |
| 1:04.7 | totally weird and probably disgusting candy cane flavors from Archie McPhee. Here are some of the cool things from the |
| 1:12.0 | news today. So the whole point of the term permafrost is that the ground it refers |
| 1:20.2 | to remains below freezing permanently, basically. But as we've seen from countless stories |
| 1:25.7 | of near perfectly preserved specimens being removed from the permafrost in places like Siberia, as the permafrost begins to melt, it's not nearly so permanent as we used to think it was. |
| 1:37.2 | So that's knock one on what us humans have done to permafrost, thanks to all those greenhouse gases we keep pumping into the atmosphere. |
| 1:44.9 | But it turns out there's another thing to be concerned about as that permafrost melts. |
| 1:49.4 | It could lead to the release of even more greenhouse gases, plus unknown viruses, |
| 1:56.4 | antibiotic resistant bacteria, and even radioactive waste from Cold War-era nuclear reactors. |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah, basically a greatest hits compilation of people's biggest fears all being unleashed together in a giant cloud, |
| 2:10.5 | as yet another thing that was supposed to be permanent, has turned out to be a false promise. |
| 2:15.8 | This news comes from research published this week by the European |
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