Warmer seas may release frozen methane into the sky forever

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Warmer seas may release frozen methane into the sky forever

Department of Energy Methane hydrate, being held by a magician, I assume. Energy companies got all excited last month when the Department of Energy started handing out investments to explore gas hydrates on the ocean floor off the East Coast. These hydrates are basically methane gas trapped in little pockets of ice (basically), so of course energy companies want to bring them up, thaw them out, and set them on fire. There’s just one little problem: The extremely warm water off the coast may already be melting the hydrates. From NBC News : Temperature changes in the Gulf Stream are “rapidly destabilizing methane hydrate along a broad swathe of the North American margin,” the experts said in a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature . Using seismic records and ocean models, the team estimated that 2.5 gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate are being desta...

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