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Arctic tundra emits methane even in winter
Reuters ^
| Dec. 3, 2008
| Michael Kahn Michael Kahn
Posted on 12/05/2008 1:40:56 PM PST by decimon
LONDON (Reuters) The arctic tundra emits the same amount of methane in winter as in the warmer months, a surprising finding that bolsters understanding of how greenhouse gases interact with nature, researchers said on Wednesday.
Scientists have long known that wetlands produce large amounts of methane and had thought it unlikely that greenhouse gases escaped from beneath frozen tundra, said Torben Christensen, a biogeochemist at Lund University in Sweden.
"Mother Nature is showing us something that is really surprising," Christensen, who led the study published in the journal Nature, said in a telephone interview.
"Nobody would expect to have loads of gas seeping out from a frozen environment."
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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: carboncredits; catastrophism; igloodmybuttshut
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Inuit husbands absolved of blame.
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:40:57 PM PST
by
decimon
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:41:42 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
We must drill in ANWR tundra to stop global warming.
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:42:55 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware of Obama's Reichstag Fire; Don't permit him to seize emergency powers.)
To: decimon
Probably because reports of drilling are scaring the crap out of the caribou.
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:43:26 PM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: MeanWestTexan
NUKE THE TUNDRA
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:44:59 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: decimon
“Mother Nature is showing us something that is really surprising,”
If mother nature showed you that you’re a flaming idiot, we wouldn’t be surprised either.
To: BOBTHENAILER
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:47:22 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: decimon
Geez, I thought it was only cows, pigs and D.C. tourists in the summer. Now they tell us its "wetland tundra!!!!"
Seriously, my friends and I were discussing the proposed cow flatulence tax and had a brainstorm to invent "methane-free grass" for cows, thereby eliminating the "flatulence tax."
This will of course force the EPA to place the proposed tax on beans, garlic, broccoli and other methane that produce noxious substances in humans.
Mexicans here in this country are in serious danger of being forced to change their diets from frejoles to tofu.
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:49:36 PM PST
by
zerosix
To: decimon
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:50:49 PM PST
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: decimon
Arctic tundra emits methane even in winter
Tax it!
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:51:07 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: BOBTHENAILER
Just try it!
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:53:45 PM PST
by
decimon
To: BOBTHENAILER
No, just Tax the Tundra. Nice.
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:55:44 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: decimon
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posted on
12/05/2008 1:58:47 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
To: decimon
So we find out decades later what the real cause of the expanding Artic ozone layer. It turns out NOT to be the aerosal cans. Imagine that!
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:06:17 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: CrazyIvan
Polar cows?Great milkshakes.
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:08:43 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Oh no, not Sgt. Preston? ?
He’s an Obamabot?
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:10:33 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: decimon
There’s something down there...and it’s farting.
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:11:32 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
To: decimon
This makes total sense. The ground under the tundra is frozen year round, so whatever it is doing would be done year round. Snow cover would tend to keep the underground climate the same temperature, protecting it from winter cooling so the reaction would continue at the same pace.
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:11:40 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
To: gathersnomoss
Taxing the Tundra, I like it.
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:11:47 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: RightWhale
This makes total sense. The ground under the tundra is frozen year round, so whatever it is doing would be done year round. Snow cover would tend to keep the underground climate the same temperature, protecting it from winter cooling so the reaction would continue at the same pace.A recent claim has been that a thawing of the tundra areas would increase methane emissions to the atmosphere. This would seem to put the kibosh on that notion.
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posted on
12/05/2008 2:19:19 PM PST
by
decimon
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