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Arctic Methane Explosion Still Leaks Out Gas After 12,000 Years
Inquisitr ^ | June 4, 2017 | Lorenzo Tanos

Posted on 06/04/2017 5:17:58 PM PDT by Innovative

An Arctic methane explosion that took place close to 12,000 years ago resulted in several large craters at the bottom of the ocean, a new study has discovered. But what stands out as interesting is the fact that thousands of years later, gas is still seeping out slowly from the seafloor.

The study published earlier this week in the journal Science details yet another set of findings regarding these explosions that took place over the past thousands of years. And with climate change very much a hot-button topic these days, scientists are wondering whether it’s possible that these Arctic methane explosions may take place in the future, and how they could play a part in global warming, according to the Washington Post.

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TOPICS: Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: arctic; climatechange; globalwarming; methane
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I sooner believe that this may contribute to "global warming", than industry.
1 posted on 06/04/2017 5:17:59 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Make the Vikings pay for the Paris Treaty.


2 posted on 06/04/2017 5:22:47 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Innovative

They may be figuring out that temperature fluctuations have natural causes.

But that won’t stop them from trying to redistribute the wealth.


3 posted on 06/04/2017 5:22:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Innovative

Link to the Washington Post article mentioned:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/21/scientists-just-found-telltale-evidence-of-an-ancient-methane-explosion-in-the-arctic-ocean/?utm_term=.1c27090ab76c


4 posted on 06/04/2017 5:23:08 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

100% total BS!


5 posted on 06/04/2017 5:23:52 PM PDT by caver (Gomer)
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To: Innovative


6 posted on 06/04/2017 5:24:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Innovative
Light a match!


7 posted on 06/04/2017 5:25:19 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: caver
100% total BS!

Close...


8 posted on 06/04/2017 5:29:36 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Innovative

9 posted on 06/04/2017 5:30:19 PM PDT by knarf
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Can we get it in different shapes?


10 posted on 06/04/2017 5:32:38 PM PDT by caver (Gomer)
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To: Innovative

Quick. Carbon tax it!


11 posted on 06/04/2017 5:33:06 PM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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A flaming big hole that won't stop burning:

Giant gas crater called The Door To Hell that was caused by drilling blunder and was expected to burn out after a few days…in 1971

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 08:26 EDT, 20 November 2013 | 



12 posted on 06/04/2017 5:34:56 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Arctic Methane Explosion Still Leaks Out Gas After 12,000 Years

Mom, I swear I didn't do that. Really. Cross my heart.

13 posted on 06/04/2017 5:39:56 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Bratch

Nice pic.Reminds me I need to pick up some more Preparation H.


14 posted on 06/04/2017 5:42:05 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (anything worth doing is worth overdoing,moderation is for cowards)
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To: knarf

I looked up that information on Wattsupwiththat it would seem by their calculations Mt Etna put out 1/200 of the amount put out in CO2 in the past 150 years or so


15 posted on 06/04/2017 5:44:37 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Innovative

Not, it’s not possible. I asked Al Gore and he said Trump was big poopyhead.


16 posted on 06/04/2017 5:58:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Innovative

Somehow, someone will blame this on man.


17 posted on 06/04/2017 5:59:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (Prophecy of sky Gods, the sun and moon)
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To me, these discoveries strongly support the idea that methane, crude oil, natural gas, and other hydrocarbon-derivative deposits actually originate in the mantle (as part of an ongoing process), prior to being deposited in the earth’s crust. Plate tectonics or no, I find it hard to believe that hydrocarbon deposits of the high magnitude we see could be sourced to decomposing organic matter laid down in eons gone by.


18 posted on 06/04/2017 6:11:56 PM PDT by Marechal
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The world has been in turmoil for hundreds of millions of years - watching modern-day environmentalists obsessed with trying to keep it the same as it has been for only the last fifty years or so is like watching a madman trying to balance an egg on the edge of a razor blade.....


19 posted on 06/04/2017 6:14:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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The problem with the purveyors of the globull warming crap is: there are more more variables at play that they will never even admit to, let alone consider and factor into their equations.

It’s all about the Bejamins. (Franklin must be turning in his grave.)


20 posted on 06/04/2017 6:16:39 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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