[CannaBiscuit]

This article I don't find to be good news or bad news. Procesess such as the possible thawing of permafrost would be a natural occurence that may contribute to global warming which will happen regardless of human interaction.
Today some live in fear that the climate is dramatically getting warmer due to pollution cause by humans rather than the enviroment itself. The fact of the matter is the climate change we face is accelerated by man but mostly contributed to nature. When a valcano erupts it puts roughly half of the pollutants and gases caused by the industrial revolution into the atmoshpere showing the earth does a hell of job polluting itself.
The release of carbon from the thawing of ice is really irrelavent to the issue of global warming because climate shift is a natural trend that is repeated throught the history of the biosphere (earth).
You could also look at this in a positive way for the reason that thawing of ice is never usually a good thing because of the world we live in. People seemed to have ingored the scientific evidence that sea levels can rise, continents shift and coastlines can become eroded. Therefore we tend to build extravagent homes close to the water without realizing years from now the location of the house can be underwater. In this case homes built on trunda like biomes could become damaged from the soil shifting, and sinkholes caused by melting ice.