Posted on 08/30/2009 5:46:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, Northwest Territories – Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.
"On a calm day, you can see 20 or more `seeps' out across this lake," said Canadian researcher Rob Bowen, sidling his small rubber boat up beside one of them. A tossed match would have set it ablaze.
"It's essentially pure methane."
Pure methane, gas bubbling up from underwater vents, escaping into northern skies, adds to the global-warming gases accumulating in the atmosphere. And pure methane escaping in the massive amounts known to be locked in the Arctic permafrost and seabed would spell a climate catastrophe.
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The usual AP bovine excrement.
It’s Global Warming! Run!
That’s been going on and off for millenia. Siberia permafrost has been poping out mastadons like rabbits.
> “It’s essentially pure methane.”
No sh*t.
Ban it, tax it. Demonstrate against it. Maybe we could get a Methane Czar.
No shit?
Damn it! What makes a garden grow?
I’ll bet you the earth farts exceed the sum of feedlots.
Of course by that time the tundra is lkely to be frozen solid all year around due to the Great Cooling which appears imminent.
Guess there was lots left from that past global warming period a few hundred years ago. You remember - that’s the one that was much, much warmer than now.
Oh, never mind. I forgot, trying to talk to journalists is sorta like trying to talk to the Obamaloon.
But, it’s not man-made.
What a load.
it......issssss.....MOTHER NATURE YOU SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please withold your comments in that the room is laready too hot.
Thank you.
Oh crap! Thanks a lot! I expect algore to take the post within a week.
The Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors are considering another resolution to oppose drilling and expansion of the Federal leases in waters outside of the dominion of the State of California. Go figger....
Then drill, cap and distribute as fuel.
Arctic temperatures well below norms this summer, except for a recent three day stretch.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Dang!
Collect it as it surfaces. Store it, then burn it in power plants to make electricity.
What is the problem?
I may be wrong here but I thought methane easily and quickly dispersed in the atmosphere.
Not to worry. I’m sure BO and a “Methane Czar” can fix this with a few trillion tax dollars.
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