re: #80 thedopefishlives

The seed vault is, I think, a Norwegian thing. When started it was not envisioned that the Trump/Putin vision of melting all the ice in the world would be the winning team.

Here was the problem - under estimating the enormity of the change which is coming.
re: #81 jaunte

But that won’t stop the above-freezing temps during summer. Assuming we are on an above-RCP4.5 pathway - the Trump/Putin vision - then even the high Arctic will end up with summers above freezing. It will take centuries, but even the permafrost will melt.