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The Arctic Is Leaking Methane
registerShift and other readers sent in news that the Arctic Ocean seabed is leaking methane. "...climate experts familiar with the new research reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science that even though it does not suggest imminent climate catastrophe, it is important because of methane's role as a greenhouse gas. Although carbon dioxide is far more abundant and persistent in the atmosphere, ton for ton atmospheric methane traps at least 25 times as much heat. ... [One scientist] estimated that annual methane emissions from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf total about seven teragrams. (A teragram is 1.1 million tons.) By some estimates, global methane emissions total about 500 teragrams a year. ...about 40 percent is natural, including the decomposition of organic materials in wetlands and frozen wetlands like permafrost."
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"...while we pass legislation to make manufacturing even more difficult in America..."
It does not MATTER how difficult (or not) manufacturing is in America. Managers of public companies are trying to "maximize shareholder value" and also pad their own salaries and bonuses as much as possible. Therefore, they export as many jobs as possible from the U.S. to China to hire the cheapest possible workers. Environmental regs or not, that's their strategy, and it' short-term thinking. Gradually, the manufacturing skill and knowledge moves from the U.S. to China. Less gradually, U.S. workers are out of jobs and can't afford the goods anymore. It's a race to the bottom in order to maximize profit in the near-term.
Now go ahead, and fuckin' mod this as flamebait. Whatever.