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Massive Methane Release In the Arctic Region
Taco Cowboy writes "Arctic methane release is a well recorded phenomenon. Methane stored in both permafrost (which is melting) and methane hydrates (methane trapped in marine reservoirs) are vulnerable to being released into the atmosphere as the planet warms. However, researchers who are trying to map atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on a global basis have discovered that the amount of methane emissions in the Arctic region do not total up. Further research revealed that significant amounts of methane releases came from the Arctic ocean (abstract) — as much as 2 milligrams of the gas is released per square meter of ocean, each day — presumably by marine bacteria surviving in low-nutrient environments."
For definitions of 'most likely' that amount to 'best grant proposal scare story'.
The most likely explanation is that this is normal and is only just being observed and measured for the first time.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You fools!
Only carbon dioxide according to Al Gore is responsible for greenhouse warming! Anyone else saying so is insane and should be locked up!
Further more, we must immediately begin a sterlization program for the arctic and destroy all bacteria causing greenhouse methane!
The best way to do this is for every man women and child to be taxed so that a carbon exchange of this methane can be addressed!
Only through taxes given to a small elite like Al Gore and the IMF can we ever hope to defeat man made climate chage, or any climate change!
Anyone else saying different needs to be locked up immediately!!!
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.