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Scientists find 500 U.S. seabed vents of powerful greenhouse gas
Reuters ^ | 19 October 2016

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; junkscience; methane; potsdamgravitypotato; science; seabed; seafloor
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To: Talisker

It won’t work. Hillary is already a walking gasbag and Trump voters don’t like her.


21 posted on 10/21/2016 10:59:02 AM PDT by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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To: Lorianne

So, it isn’t the cows after all. It’s Mother Earth.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 10:59:24 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: butlerweave

Swamp is an outdated word don’t you know?
It’s called ‘wetlands’ now.


23 posted on 10/21/2016 11:00:35 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Mr. Douglas

How about we call them melanin-rich? And the rest of us melanin-challenged.


24 posted on 10/21/2016 11:00:53 AM PDT by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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To: ClearBlueSky
Yes, sea cows.


25 posted on 10/21/2016 11:01:56 AM PDT by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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To: Lorianne

So now we’re going into the Middle East not to drain the swamp, but to drain the wetlands?


26 posted on 10/21/2016 11:02:49 AM PDT by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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To: Lorianne

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


27 posted on 10/21/2016 11:04:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Lorianne
Methane naturally escapes from the sea floor in many places around the world and can stoke global warming if it reaches the atmosphere.

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.

28 posted on 10/21/2016 11:06:45 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Lorianne

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!


29 posted on 10/21/2016 11:11:11 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: M Kehoe

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.


30 posted on 10/21/2016 11:11:27 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell ( Trump is the collective voice of 100 million F UÂ’s.)
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To: Lorianne

31 posted on 10/21/2016 11:12:59 AM PDT by CygnusXI
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To: Lorianne

How many mega-cowfarts is that?


32 posted on 10/21/2016 11:14:00 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: AndyTheBear

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.


33 posted on 10/21/2016 11:15:13 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: JediJones

“international bodies.?”

Sophia, Brigitte etc etc ??? LOL....


34 posted on 10/21/2016 11:15:17 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: V_TWIN
Methane pockets is one theory for the Bermuda Triangle.... if one believes such.

Oh no, report on Drudge this morning says square clouds cause it.

35 posted on 10/21/2016 11:15:45 AM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: V_TWIN
“They should cap them and burn the methane for power”

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.

36 posted on 10/21/2016 11:20:38 AM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: Lorianne

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.


37 posted on 10/21/2016 11:21:40 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: itsahoot

Saw that. :)


38 posted on 10/21/2016 11:25:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Lorianne

Tax em!


39 posted on 10/21/2016 11:44:41 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Lorianne

Plug ‘em.


40 posted on 10/21/2016 11:55:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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