Lakes Boiling With Methane Discovered In Alaska

Science Daily ^ | University of Alaska Fairbanks

[lilylangtree]

Drats! All those endangered caribou walking into the lake and passing gas. Shameful! Just shameful!

[Post Toasties]

Must be those seacows.

[Mountain Troll]

Cthulhu fartin’

[Rocky]

Methane is much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Quick, somebody light a match.

[Red_Devil 232]

If it was so cold they should have just flicked a Bic ... all our problems with the methane gas and these reports would have been solved!

[Caipirabob]

Lakes Boiling With Methane Discovered In Alaska

Apparently Alec Baldwin didn't make it all the way to France.

[Eye of Unk]

Winter is coming soon and it will all freeze up.No big deal unless there is a market for it or we get invaded by methane breathing aliens.

[Stayfree]

Imagine that...global warming traced to earth farts and fish farts...quick, paint them all green...(old joke, you know)

[MaxMax]

Just great, now Bush will try and use it as a natural resource.
Bush must be STOPPED! /s

[Charlespg]

It’s not the permafrost melting. Something’s alive down there...and it’s farting.

Cthulhu!

[rusureitflies?]

Now, that’s a real hoot. Wife and I laughed so much we had tears...

[Larry Lucido]

And I hope they didn’t light a match to read the maps!

[stefanbatory]

IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!

[Brilliant]

Methane = natural gas.

[billorites]

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“whether or not our raft would stay afloat”

Good reason to fear. If you happen to be boating over a sudden methane gas release, the bubbles effectively reduce the boyancy of the water. Your ship weighs more than the water and methane bubbles that you displace and you sink.

There is an area off North Carolina that is subject to methane eruptions. Some place in Scotland is an area called the Witch’s hole. Fishing boats are lost when methane eruptions occur and the boats sink and do not come up again.

[ErnBatavia]

[Grizzled Bear]

We were dropped off in the middle of nowhere by a helicopter and paddled out to a huge methane plume in the middle of the lake with no idea what to expect, how strong the bubbling plume would be, whether or not our raft would stay afloat, how dangerous it would be to breath the gas,” said Walter, an assistant professor in UAF’s Institute of Northern Engineering and International Arctic Research Center.

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So they didn’t know where they were going, they didn’t know what would be there, didn’t know what the dangers were and had no idea what the hell they were doing...sounds like typical liberals to me.

[Grizzled Bear]

I hope you lit a match!

[Cvengr]

Stupid is as stupid does. First, they boat out into an area suspected of venting methane, whereupon had they entered it, the principles of buoyancy allowing their craft to float would have resulted in their sinking. Of course if they didn’t sink, and there was methane there, then the odorless and colorless gas could have caused death by suffocation.