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 ...
It won’t work. Hillary is already a walking gasbag and Trump voters don’t like her.
So, it isn’t the cows after all. It’s Mother Earth.
Swamp is an outdated word don’t you know?
It’s called ‘wetlands’ now.
How about we call them melanin-rich? And the rest of us melanin-challenged.
So now we’re going into the Middle East not to drain the swamp, but to drain the wetlands?
Here’s another revelation by scientists: Crude oil seeps from the ocean floor too.
Let me offer my apologies to the environmental wackos.
5.56mm
This has been known for a very long time, and the global warmers have tried to suppress this information. The Earth releases far more gas and pollutants into the atmosphere than man does. A lot of methane is locked up in ice deep under the sea, and sometimes warms up and escapes. The Japanese and other scientists have been trying to figure out how to mine this stuff from the seabed. If too much gets released, there could be a huge explosion at the surface of the ocean. A lot of this is in the Atlantic Ocean, but as you say there are vents around the planet.
THE green house gas is water vapor. The rest of the greenhouse gasses are marginal in their effect. So its pretty messed up to see an article talking about greenhouse gassses from the ocean while ignoring....well WATER!
We will figure out the critical importance of methane in maintaining natural environmental balance after we have so thoroughly disrupted its influence that we can no longer breath the air.
Opponents of methane offer precisely the same argument against co2, without which every plant dies.
The level of stupidity in our quasi scientific and political communities has achieved critical mass.
If we pursue their agenda we will surely die.
How many mega-cowfarts is that?
I blame the dolphins. After all, they are supposed to be pretty smart. I would not put it past them to devise some careful placement in the media not mentioning that water vapor has anything to do with water.
Dolphins don’t want the watermelons messing with their sea vents. I bet those sea vents tickle like crazy when you swim over them.
“international bodies.?”
Sophia, Brigitte etc etc ??? LOL....
Oh no, report on Drudge this morning says square clouds cause it.
Forty years ago the Cherokee were building three bedroom model brick homes for indians in rural areas that required new water wells, they often hit gas wells that were required to be cemented off. No gas for them.
They got even later because those Indian Houses were declared Indian property and many enterprising Indians opened Smoke Shacks selling untaxed cigarettes.
Fools have already jumped to conclusion it’s all man-made. Yet, none of this can be directly tagged as man originated. Till then, it’s pure hype & speculation by climate hypsters.
Saw that. :)
Tax em!
Plug ‘em.
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