Doomsday vault doomed

[Witness]

Well, not quite yet:

‘Doomsday’ seed vault meant to survive global disasters breached by climate change

The seed bank designed to preserve the world’s crops and plants in the event of global disaster isn’t prepared to withstand the greatest global disaster facing our planet: global warming. Melting permafrost on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located, has seeped into the seed bank, raising questions of how the structure will be able to survive in the future as the Earth keeps warming.
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Fortunately, the water hasn’t flooded the vault itself. It only got to the entrance of the tunnel, where it froze. (The seeds are stored at minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit.) But the incident has raised questions over the durability of a seed bank that was supposed to operate without people’s intervention.

The vault managers are now waterproofing the facility and digging trenches to channel melt and rainwater away, according to The Guardian. They’ve also installed pumps in case the vault floods again.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/19/1566 ... ate-change

[Abdul Alhazred]

Were they expecting doomsday not to be hot?

[Witness]

"Not in my backyard! "

[Bruce]

It will only be a matter of time before post apocalyptic hipsters raid the vault to make a variety of all natural granola bars to satisfy their insane lust for the ironic.

I no longer wish to live in Svalbard.

[robinson]

Were they expecting doomsday not to be hot?

It's a problem.