Huge Methane Leak Detected in Arctic, page 1
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Topic started on 17-3-2010 @ 04:06 PM by Frogs
Scientists have found a significant methane leak in the Arctic in an area previously thought safe from such things..

Huge Methane Leak in Arctic Detected

Methane is leaking into the atmosphere from unstable permafrost in the Arctic Ocean faster than scientists had thought and could worsen global warming, a study said Thursday.

From 2003 to 2008, an international research team led by University of Alaska-Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov surveyed the waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which covers more than 772,200 square miles (two million square kilometers) of seafloor in the Arctic Ocean.

"This discovery reveals a large but overlooked source of methane gas escaping from permafrost underwater, rather than on land," the study said.

"More widespread emissions could have dramatic effects on global warming in the future."


Methane can have a much greater effect on global warming than C02 and methane levels in the sea water there are already 8 times higher than normal seawater.

Huge amounts of methane are trapped in the sea floor - if it gets into the atmosphere it could spell real trouble.


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 04:46 PM by wylekat
reply to post by hippomchippo


I can fake data as much as any scientist out there. You want pie chart, regular chart, or just rows of mind numbing, eye watering numbers that make no sense til someone with some hopped up college degree 'explains' them?

Or better yet, someone hire Al Gore so HE can handle this. I'd pop for his gas, but I already spent $1500 on stuff other than 50 gallons for a vehicle that goes 20 feet per.

If ya aint caught on, this is less 'facts' and more on 'what facts can be invented'. See also all the faked data the Global Warmers did.


[edit on 17-3-2010 by wylekat]


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 04:53 PM by hippomchippo
Originally posted by wylekat
reply to post by hippomchippo


I can fake data as much as any scientist out there. You want pie chart, regular chart, or just rows of mind numbing, eye watering numbers that make no sense til someone with some hopped up college degree 'explains' them?

Or better yet, someone hire Al Gore so HE can handle this. I'd pop for his gas, but I already spent $1500 on stuff other than 50 gallons for a vehicle that goes 20 feet per.

If ya aint caught on, this is less 'facts' and more on 'what facts can be invented'. See also all the faked data the Global Warmers did.


[edit on 17-3-2010 by wylekat]

You can SPECULATE that the data has been faked, but until you do, it is only conjecture.
Would evolution be fake then simply because some people have forged fake fossils?



reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 04:55 PM by boaby_phet
reply to post by pikestaff


im with you, chuck a match to it..

you know, i read a funny thing the other day, not from any scientist but it made alot of sence... if global warming is going to thaw everything and "flood us all" ... then how come after the last ice age, when the WHOLE WORLD was coverd in ice, after the thaw the uk was still their? (as well as the rest of the world)

Co2 aint gonna do any harm to us, global warming is a lie ... which aint hard to see why the lie exists... chough "multi billion dollar industry" cough.


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 05:00 PM by hippomchippo
Originally posted by boaby_phet
reply to post by pikestaff


im with you, chuck a match to it..

you know, i read a funny thing the other day, not from any scientist but it made alot of sence... if global warming is going to thaw everything and "flood us all" ... then how come after the last ice age, when the WHOLE WORLD was coverd in ice, after the thaw the uk was still their? (as well as the rest of the world)

Co2 aint gonna do any harm to us, global warming is a lie ... which aint hard to see why the lie exists... chough "multi billion dollar industry" cough.

So because specific spots didn't become underwater you consider the entire thing a lie?
The water levels did rise after the last ice age, quite significantly infact, here's some more info that you'll probably trash as disinformation garbage without reading it.
www.giss.nasa.gov...
EDIT: And yes, some scientists did exaggerate data, that is to be expected with large amounts of people, but that doesn't dismiss the entire theory, which is fairly sound.

[edit on 17-3-2010 by hippomchippo]


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 05:02 PM by primus2012
reply to post by Phlynx


What are we going to do with this evidence of the earth polluting itself. Use it to scare the crap out of ignorant people? Make the suckers feel guilty about it and agree to pay a tax somewhere to compensate for their added daily methane?

HUGE METHANE LEAK - DANGER - BEWARE - RUN - THIS TIME IT REALLY IS GLOBAL WARMING...ER CLIMATE CHANGE - IT'S YOUR FAULT - YOU SHOULD PAY POOR LITTLE UNINDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES MONEY FOR BEING ADVANCED SOCIETIES - POOR LITTLE FISHY AND POOR LITTLE FUZZY BEAR AND POOR LITTLE TREE.

Phooey.
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