SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why are those people who live at the north of the world always so ahead of everyone else when it comes to making hard decisions that other western nations simply never want to face....much less make.

My case in point is this little tidbit from Norway:

Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a
global catastrophe, an Arctic "doomsday vault" filled with samples of
the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize
winning environmentalist Wangari Matai will be among the personalities
present at the inauguration of the vault, which has been carved into
the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, just some 1,000 kilometres
(620 miles) from the North Pole.

The only problem I see is the use of the words "carved into the permafrost". There is permafrost all over Siberia that has melted...and smelling terrible...because as it turns out...there is a whole lot of frozen Mammoth poo that's been there frozen and smell-free for tens of thousands of years.

Here's the rest of the story: