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Emissions from permafrost thaw could raise global temperatures by 0.3C (including 0.2C before 2100) by the next century.

However, some of the coldest permafrost (expected to remain stable until the 22nd century) now looks likely to degrade more quickly than previously thought.
The Arctic

'If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase at current rates, this warming will lead to the widespread thawing of permafrost and the release of hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 and billions of tonnes of CH4'

nature.com/articles/nclim…
'Emissions from melted permafrost could raise global temperatures by 0.2 C' by 2100, and 0.3C by the 22nd century.

However, permafrost has been thawing far more quickly than expected since this 2015 study (in some cases 70 years earlier). rcinet.ca/en/2015/09/24/…
'Permafrost hs begun thawing in the Canadian Arctic more than 70 years early because of climate change'.

June 2019:

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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