Dot Earth Blog: Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas – Apocalypse Not

Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas - Apocalypse Not

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com 14 Dec '11, 11pm

Dot Earth Blog: Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas – Apocalypse Not

A very important research effort has been under way during recent summers in the warming, increasingly ice-free shallows off Russia’s Siberian coast. There, an international array of scientists has been investigating widening areas of open water that are disgorging millions of tons of methane each year. Given that methane, molecule for molecule, has at least 20 times the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide, it’s important to get a handle on whether these are new releases, the first foretaste of some great outburst from thawing sea-bed stores of the gas, or simply a longstanding phenomenon newly observed. If you read the Independent of Britain, you’d certainly be thinking the worst. The newspaper has led the charge in fomenting worry over the gas emissions, with portentous, and remarkably similar, stories in 2008 and this week . If you read geophysical journals and s...

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