Uh-oh! Your dirt is leaking carbon!

Scientists are reporting that global warming is causing soil in the UK to release increasing amounts of carbon, further contributing to the escalating greehouse-gas problem. And it's likely that the effect is occurring world-wide:

"The worry has always been that it's the factories, motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations that are major culprits when it comes to creating greenhouse gases.

But now fingers are being pointed at the Earth itself. Scientists in the UK say warmer temperatures are causing soils to "exhale" vast amounts of the greenhouse polluting gas, carbon dioxide"

First cars, then cow farts, now dirt? There is no hope. Better get that sunscreen and those flood-pants now.

AM - Researchers find soil emits greenhouse gases