It’s Sunday night and that means that the media releases the news stories that that NO ONE would buy as a serious news story, but hey, it’s “Global Warming!” story - and most of them are farcical so why not? ¬† Plus it comes from “Russian” where of course no one but Reuters would ever talk to such as nut.

“DUVANNY YAR, Russia (Reuters) - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.

“It smells like mammoth dung,” he says.

This is more than just another symptom of global warming.

For millennia, layers of animal waste and other organic matter left behind by the creatures that used to roam the Arctic tundra have been sealed inside the frozen permafrost. Now climate change is thawing the permafrost and lifting this prehistoric ooze from suspended animation.

But Zimov, a scientist who for almost 30 years has studied climate change in Russia’s Arctic, believes that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will accelerate global warming faster than even some of the most pessimistic forecasts.

“This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop,” he said.

When the organic matter left behind by mammoths and other wildlife is exposed to the air by the thawing permafrost, his theory runs, microbes that have been dormant for thousands of years spring back into action.

As a by-product they emit carbon dioxide and — even more damaging in terms of its impact on the climate — methane gas.

According to Zimov, the microbes are going to start emitting these gases in enormous quantities.”

Let’s not miss this. This dope is talking about thawing crap from eons ago that will “come alive” and kill us¬† all through increased global warming.¬† Forget the fact even if it were so there are many more animals in the world today crapping all over the place and it’s not even frozen and it has no measurable effect on the planet.

Still the though of Zimov running over the tundra picking up cow paddies to feel and sniff them brings back memories of Cheborneck skit from the Cheech and Chong album Los Conchinos.