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Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor
sciencehabit writes Researchers have discovered 570 plumes of methane percolating up from the sea floor off the eastern coast of the United States, a surprisingly high number of seeps in a relatively quiescent part of the ocean. The seeps suggest that methane's contribution to climate change has been underestimated in some models. And because most of the seeps lie at depths where small changes in temperature could be releasing the methane, it is possible that climate change itself could be playing a role in turning some of them on.
Hey, look, HornWumpus, you don't know shit.
Our planet, has, in it's history, quite provably been over 10 C warmer, due to different carbon levels. That's huge, FYI. Earth has a proven history of going extremely warm(and no one is saying Venus is our future, thanks for the implied strawman there). That kind of change would murder our system of agriculture, almost everywhere.
When the earth was 10 degrees warmer, we didn't have out of control methane making the earth Venus (as predicted by climate scientists and the positive feedback they clearly don't understand).
Latitude is the answer to global warming and cooling. Assuming it would be universally a bad thing is idiotic.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
" meaning AGW MAY NOT be the doom and gloom some make it out to be. "
wrong.
It means AGW "doom and gloom": could be worse the thought, nut not better then thought.
"but it leads credence to the idea that we still have no idea"
That is in no way true.
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