World faces US$60-trillion ‘economic time-bomb’ from Arctic methane leakage, study suggests

Financial Post ^ | July 25, 2013 | Reuters

[rickmichaels]

LONDON — A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea ice and climate change with a cost to the global economy of up to US$60-trillion over coming decades, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Erasmus University in the Netherlands used economic modelling to calculate the consequences of a release of a 50-gigatonne reservoir of methane from thawing permafrost under the East Siberian Sea.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Santa ate too many beans?

[RightGeek]

It is only exceeded by the methane emitted by Taco Bell customers.

[Average Al]

So we are all going to die from a big fart??? BWWAAAAHHH!!!

[RightGeek]

[dragonblustar]

AL GORE in ARCTIC FART

[cripplecreek]

Better start using it for fuel before its too late!

[American in Israel]

[jetson]

This is the way our creator or creator's set it up. Stihl suits and gas masks are the future.

[kaehurowing]

We’re all gonna die.

[cripplecreek]

We’re all gonna die.

And emit various gasses.

[Dr.Deth]

The king of Methane Leakage

[ScottfromNJ]

I’m more concerned about the methane gas in Washington and the national debt time bomb.

[PeterPrinciple]

used economic modelling

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I made an economic model that was going to make me a billionaire, some how it didn’t quite happen that way.

[dead]

Another one of those articles where they mangle their message. They need an image consultant to tighten up their marketing.

You can't talk in the same article about the dire need to "do something" to save the planet, and later press your point that we done too much damage already and cannot hope to stop the inevitable disaster.

[Rashputin]

NO, don’t tell me, let me guess.

It’s gonna cause global warming, right?

[Prospero]

Bawwk! Bawwwaahk! Bawaaak! cried Chicken Little.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They calculated this on the belief that the Arctic snow is made of pure powder cocaine, street value $60 trillion.

[Cyber Liberty]

Funny. Did you catch who the third judge was?

[Old Yeller]

My methane leak is enough to doom the world.