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Hundreds of billions of tons of carbon may lurk in methane reservoirs below the continent, the study found. That dwarfs the 600 million tons of carbon released through natural methane emissions like wetlands, livestock, burning of biomass and agriculture every year, she said.
Methane is a potent global warming gas, capable of trapping 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide, though it lingers in the atmosphere for much shorter periods of time.
>Methane is a potent global warming gas, capable of trapping 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide
Well there you have it. I say we nuke it from space so it will ignite, burn off and convert to CO, NO2 and other less nobel gasses.
Either that or send OWS and other misfits down there with Bic lighters and a hole punch so they can touch it off like lighting a fa^h^h breaking wind.
Could probably power a lot of cars for a long time. We should start mining the stuff.