Posted on 03/04/2010 11:37:26 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected.
Methane had become trapped in the permafrost over time and a warming climate is now resulting in its release, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
"The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is comparable to the amount coming out of the entire world's oceans," said Natalia Shakhova, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center and the co-author.
Concerns about global warming have centered on rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but scientists note that methane can be 30 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I blame bean eating vegans.
just so long as I stay upwind, honey, you can eat those beans.
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.
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.
The Arctic? Hell that’s nothing compared to the methane that’s bubbling up from DC.
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.
I CAN’T BREAT >>>>
If the last polar bear doesn't eat all the cows.
Gas isn't the only bull emission in excess here.
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!”)
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.
I knew it was all your fault!!
Run away! Run away!
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.
“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?
Not sure the models even include the effects of clouds...
CO2 didnt work so lets move to the next fraud...
I wonder when they will get around to banning water vapor, a very common ‘greenhouse gas’.
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