Apparently not everyone is just sitting on their hands waiting...

Watching 60 Minutes today, there was a pretty good feature on the works of the Russian director of Northeast Scientific Station, a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences located in Siberia, geophysicist Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov.

He is a specialist in arctic and subarctic ecology, working with his son at a site colloquially known as Pleistocene Park to revitalize the northern tundra as it had been in the thick of the last Ice Age. The goal is to assist in the battle against Global Warming.

Natural heaters like shrubs and trees need to be removed, replacing with tundra grasses and repopulating the region with large mammals, such as the grey wolf, cave hyena, Homotherium (an extinct genus of machairodontine saber-toothed cats), brown bear, wolverine, and Arctic fox. Also on the agenda are woolly bison and mammoths. The big cats will be needed to keep the mammoth population in check.

According to the 60 Minutes interview, all this is already underway and there is work to rebuild these extinct creatures from DNA samples revered from the thawing permafrost.

My brother pointed out that "...the saber-toothed tigers will likely eat the scientists."

I replied "How Jurassic Park of you."