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Is it really permafrost if it melts

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its called permafrost because its been frozen for a very long time, usually the ice we see is just seasonal but that ice does not usually melt, now it does because the earth is getting warmer

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Sometimesfrost doesn't have the same ring to it

Thaws, not melts.

do I want to read an article by someone who does not know the basics?

Nah...

The funny this is I just read a study about how the polar ice caps are melting but are also absorbing more carbon then they thought and much more carbon then the forests are

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