Posted on 10/21/2016 10:48:11 AM PDT by Lorianne
Scientists have found 500 seabed vents bubbling methane into the Pacific Ocean off the United States, roughly doubling the number of known U.S. seeps of the powerful greenhouse gas, a study showed on Wednesday.
Methane naturally escapes from the sea floor in many places around the world and can stoke global warming if it reaches the atmosphere. Worldwide, scientists are trying to see if rising ocean temperatures cause more leaks.
"It appears that the entire coast off Washington, Oregon and California is a giant methane seep," Robert Ballard, who is famed for finding the wreck of the Titanic and has now discovered the 500 new seeps, said in a statement.
Scientists have found 500 seabed vents bubbling methane into the Pacific Ocean off the United States, roughly doubling the number of known U.S. seeps of the powerful greenhouse gas, a study showed on Wednesday.
Methane naturally escapes from the sea floor in many places around the world and can stoke global warming if it reaches the atmosphere. Worldwide, scientists are trying to see if rising ocean temperatures cause more leaks.
"It appears that the entire coast off Washington, Oregon and California is a giant methane seep," Robert Ballard, who is famed for finding the wreck of the Titanic and has now discovered the 500 new seeps, said in a statement.
1,000 the number of such vents now known to exist along the continental margins of the USA," the statement said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The world has just ended ... else they will use some giant corks and then the world will pop like a balloon but the climate will not have changed ... morons.
so Mother Nature emits far more of the evil “greenhouse gasses” than we ever knew.... yet we are still here
“US sea vents are the worst”
ACLU,Southern Poverty Law, etc etc have already filed suit to arrest MOTHER NATURE on sight !!
Maybe they should study the correlation between methane and liberalism, instead. There's now clearly a geographical correlation.
Get a bunch of Trump voters, sit them in a room and bubble methane through flasks of seawater, and see if they change their votes to Hillary.
Methane pockets is one theory for the Bermuda Triangle.... if one believes such.
The daily fines by the EPA are going to be crushing.
lol
I love science experiments like this
They should cap them and burn the methane for power. ;-)
I think that usually with the pressure at ocean bottom levels, the gas is squeezed into the chemistry of the water.
“They should cap them and burn the methane for power”
You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu79ghchX3E
Hopefully they don’t set up their base of operations on the side of an island and make it tip over.
Well of course. After all, we are the planet’s biggest villain.
/s
I remember a reporter for some MSM station, when describing a shooter in a French murder said that he was “african american”. The reporter next to him said something along the lines of “I think you mean african frenchman”. Or something like that.
It’s hard to keep track and easier to just say Black or colored*.
*Where I now live they call them “colored” just like they did when I was a kid in teh 1960’s.
Just more proof that the U.S.A. is just evil and must cede all its sovereign power to international bodies.
Don’t forget Ponds ,Lakes and the good old Swamp
Yeah, but if they cap them and displace the water under the cap...
methane vents on the sea floor!! How ever did all of that hairspray and Freon get under the seabed to poison the planet?? How did mankind put all that terrible methane there? Are there COWS under the seabed? NATURE?? Living planet?? Impossible! WE must be to blame- especially evil Americans!! Right? /sarcasm. As if the stoners on the west coast would notice a little methane.
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