In subarctic climates — ones in which the mean annual temperature is below 32\u00b0 — the soil is frozen all year round. \u00a0It’s damn cold, but a nice base on which to build. \u00a0Until climate change starts melting the permafrost, of course.<\/p>\n
These two now crooked buildings<\/a> can be found in Dawson City, Canada. \u00a0Carleton University geographers have shown that the average temperatures have been increasing, melting the permafrost, and destabilizing the town.<\/p>\n This image reminds me that I am only barely\u00a0beginning to understand climate change and its consequences. \u00a0How we will pay for climate change, and who will do so, is something I suspect I’ll learn much more about in the coming years.<\/p>\n Via Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In subarctic climates — ones in which the mean annual temperature is below 32\u00b0 — the soil is frozen all year round. \u00a0It’s damn cold, but a nice base on which to build. \u00a0Until climate change starts melting the permafrost, of course. These two now crooked buildings can be found in Dawson City, Canada. \u00a0Carleton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[702,2123,8080,1770],"class_list":["post-50511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy","tag-environmentnature","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-nation-canada"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71557,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50511\/revisions\/71557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}