"The stalactites and stalagmites from these caves are a way of lookingbackintime to see how warm periods similar to our modern climate affect how far permafrost extends across Siberia, " said Dr Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford.
Lookingback to the first time I asked these questions in August 2009, the levels were 3.5 percent of current budgets and expected to increase to 6.1 percent over the next year and 13.7 percent over the next five years.
According to Professor Hume, preliminary results from another study - this timelooking at the IQ of school children in Dundee - appeared to back up those findings.