A 
recent study by scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark 
has found that the greenhouse gas 
nitrous oxide is released as 
permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere thaws. Identified as the third 
most predominant greenhouse gas by the United Nations after carbon 
dioxide and methane, nitrous oxide is 310 times more warming than carbon
 dioxide and its release into the atmosphere creates a feedback loop 
that accelerates global warming. 
Previously, scientists had 
thought that permafrost thawing did not release nitrous oxide in large 
amounts, but this most recent study, conducted on core samples from 
Greenland, indicates that as the soil is re-saturated with melt-water, 
nitrous oxide production increases to 20 times it natural levels, with a
 third entering the atmosphere. 
University of Copenhagen 
scientists, we are grateful for your observations that add to our 
knowledge about climate change. May such awareness motivate us all to 
act now while we still can protect our precious planet. 
Supreme 
Master Ching Hai has often expressed her concern regarding the melting 
of the Arctic permafrost, also urging actions to halt it, as in this 
July 2008 videoconference with our Association members in the US.
Supreme Master
 Ching Hai: And you see, if it is not cold then even all the 
permafrost, which is the cold hard mud layers, will be melted also, and 
then the gas from the permafrost also will be released. So it depends on
 how many people join the vegetarian diet. 
The more vegetarian 
people, the less killing of the animals, the more time we have to rescue
 the planet and the lives on the planet. So everybody has to join to 
into the vegetarian diet, and stop the killing, stop the harm to other 
people and the animals and save energies every way possible and go green
 wherever possible. 
THEN WE STILL 
CAN SAVE THE PLANET 
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