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Methane seen as growing climate risk
AP on SFGate.com ^ | 3/4/10 | AP

Posted on 03/04/2010 11:37:26 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: Secret Agent Man

I blame bean eating vegans.


41 posted on 03/04/2010 12:10:44 PM PST by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY IN 2010)
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To: nuke rocketeer

just so long as I stay upwind, honey, you can eat those beans.


42 posted on 03/04/2010 12:11:33 PM PST by hoe_cake
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To: NormsRevenge

They forgot to tell me that the US is the ONLY country that can neuteralize this,,,,or is STUPID enough to fall for the SCAM.


43 posted on 03/04/2010 12:16:58 PM PST by Waco (Wanna buy an FBI file,,,See Hillary, she's got 900 of them.)
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To: NorwegianViking
“I think History International Channel did a show on something similiar earlier in the week. A volcano in Sibera erupted; setting on fire the massive coal storage underneath the earth.....it increased the earth’s temperature by 20 degrees....the gasses spread and killed 95% of earth’s creatures. Hope history is not repeating itself.”

lol, the history channel should call itself the “Imaginary History Channel”, or the “Alternate Reality History Channel” or maybe just the “Science Fiction” channel. They gave up on broadcasting actual history long ago. Guess it wasn't entertaining enough for the morons who decide on the programing there.

44 posted on 03/04/2010 12:17:11 PM PST by monday
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To: monday

The Arctic? Hell that’s nothing compared to the methane that’s bubbling up from DC.


45 posted on 03/04/2010 12:19:20 PM PST by marlon
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To: Westbrook

Methane is a much better “greenhouse” gas than CO2. There are HUGE pockets of methane hydrates in the ocean floor - somehow they are trapped below the sediments, and folks are trying to come up with ways to make it practical to mine/drill them as a source of energy.

In the geologic past, sometimes these pockets are disturbed and the methane is released in a catastrophic manner that DOES cause problems. “Leakage” from some peat bogs is not that big of a deal.


46 posted on 03/04/2010 12:19:57 PM PST by 21twelve (Having the Democrats in control is like a never-ending game of Calvin ball. (Giotto))
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To: NormsRevenge

I CAN’T BREAT >>>>


47 posted on 03/04/2010 12:23:16 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Go-Go Donofrio. get us that Writ of Quo Warranto!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Heck, the cows will be able to graze in the arctic soon at this rate.. ;p-)

If the last polar bear doesn't eat all the cows.

48 posted on 03/04/2010 12:24:48 PM PST by DrDavid (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Better start hiding your cows."

Gas isn't the only bull emission in excess here.

49 posted on 03/04/2010 12:25:36 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: 21twelve; Westbrook

http://armageddononline.tripod.com/methane.htm

The above “doomsday” site actually has a good brief description of the methane hydrates in the ocean floor and the effects of 55 million years ago when estimated 20% of them were released.

After the first few paragraphs though they get into the scare tactics. (”If this, if that, then maybe that....and we all die!”)


50 posted on 03/04/2010 12:25:54 PM PST by 21twelve (Having the Democrats in control is like a never-ending game of Calvin ball. (Giotto))
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To: NormsRevenge

These freaks will stop at nothing to subjugate the USA, their only goal is our destruction. November is rapidly approaching, at least we can disembowel these b@$^@^)$ here.


51 posted on 03/04/2010 12:28:08 PM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: nuke rocketeer

I knew it was all your fault!!


52 posted on 03/04/2010 12:30:31 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1eK-YPXCM


53 posted on 03/04/2010 12:49:43 PM PST by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: NormsRevenge
Methane (CH4) reacts with oxygen to produce CO2 plus H2O. Talk about methane being released into the air is worthless without discussion of release rate versus breakdown rate.
54 posted on 03/04/2010 12:53:42 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: boomop1

Run away! Run away!


55 posted on 03/04/2010 12:55:38 PM PST by greatplains
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To: NormsRevenge

This makes the global warming models even wronger :) If the models were correct they would predict even more warming the since 1995 than they actually did predict. That is, if you add a new, and additional, positive feedback caused by warming (methane), then the models should predict more warming than they currently predict.

But the models were already grossly over predicting temperatures. So they are even wronger than we thought they were.


56 posted on 03/04/2010 1:04:59 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: 21twelve

“In the geologic past, sometimes these pockets are disturbed and the methane is released in a catastrophic manner that DOES cause problems. “Leakage” from some peat bogs is not that big of a deal.”

So we should mine the methane, burn it to C02 + H20. That would reduce global warming, right?


57 posted on 03/04/2010 1:07:23 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Not sure the models even include the effects of clouds...


58 posted on 03/04/2010 1:09:17 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Secret Agent Man

CO2 didnt work so lets move to the next fraud...


59 posted on 03/04/2010 1:11:46 PM PST by colonialhk (Elect Veterans not Lawyers)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder when they will get around to banning water vapor, a very common ‘greenhouse gas’.


60 posted on 03/04/2010 1:14:27 PM PST by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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