www.csua.org/u/mfk -> sustainablog.org/2008/09/23/scientists-discover-new-global-warming-threat-methane-time-bomb-under-arctic-seabed/
millions of tons of methane escape from the arctic seabed. According to preliminary findings, as the Arctic region gets warmer massive deposits of the greenhouse gas - 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - are rising to the surface. Orjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, one of the expedition's leaders, said in an email from their Russian research ship that, for the first time, the team had discovered an extensive area of methane release so intense that "the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubbles to the sea surface." The team believe that the accelerated release is connected to rising temperatures throughout the Arctic region. Gustafsson went on to report that "the conventional thought has been that the permafrost lid' on the sub-sea sediments on the Siberian shelf should cap and hold the massive reservoirs of shallow methane deposits in place." However, extensive research across thousands of square miles of the Arctic seabed had revealed growing evidence "that the permafrost lid is starting to get perforated and thus leak methane."
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm I read these Global Warming articles and keep wondering why this video with many scientist references and facts is never talked about...
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm In that case, don't we need to find a way to capture the methane that is bubbling up, process it into the various natural gases, sell those gases as combustible fuels, burn the fuels, and release CO2 as a by-product of combustion? Maybe that's why Russia has laid claim to the energy reserves in the Arctic.
The planets gonna get warmer weather we want it to or not. Either that, or we can try to find a way to "capture the methane that is bubbling up" Hmmm. You can argue points about if we're having an effect on it or not, but in the end, we're going to have to adapt.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm There is no debate on global warming -- it is a fact. Actually there is not a single peer-reviewed article written in the last 5 years that does not support the fact that global warming exists and will create mass devastation on a global scale if left unchecked. As a result, there is no point wasting time watching propaganda. One might as well watch movies developed on why the world is flat or 6,000 years old. What we need to do is figure out what to do to mitigate GW and cope with it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm The thing that everyone is forgeting is that methane gas is actually used by the ozone layer to help rebuild it and stabilize itself there is nothing wrong with methane gas and it does not hurt our ecosystem.
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