Methane bursts from frozen tundra - Ice build-up may squeeze greenhouse gas from cold soil.

Nature News ^ | 2008-12-05 | Anna Barnett

[Tarpon]

If you live where there are swamps(not PC) you already knew this. It’s what decaying plants do, after they have exhausted all their CO2 consuming lifetimes.

[B4Ranch]

Click of the word NATURE

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/news.2008.1275.html

[silverleaf]

“Methane Happens”

[Cyclone59]

Now wait right there. How can this possibly be happending? I mean, come on, hell-o, global warming. Look at the title - ice build up, huh, wha? But I thought warming melted ice. The build up of ice (more ice weighs more than less ice). The word libtard comes to mind.

[Buckhead]

Freezing causes warming.

[Old Professer]

“Pinning down such details of the natural methane cycle, adds Christensen, could help to predict how climate change-induced thawing in the Arctic may release dangerous amounts of the greenhouse gas. “This will help us understand the starting point for those types of changes.”

Here they are, admitting that they have blathering all along about how AGW is responsible for the thawing, allowing the release in the first place to restating the same dire possible effect after finding that they hadn’t the slightest idea that they were 180 degrees wrong about maximum emissions all along.

What made them think that a little frost or ice buildup would trap a gas that is 1.7 thw eight of air in the first place?

I guess we can give up on the notion of camping out there anytime soon.

[Old Professer]

GW supporters embrace this because it makes up the difference between the 30 million tins and the model’s 100 million tons that was previously “missing.”

Unfortunately, the previous measured 30 million was blamed on early thawing in the spring because of manmade warming so they have to kinda walk around that a bit.

[LiberConservative]

Giga Gia SBD Alert

[Old Professer]

I’m going to have to trim my nails, I’m striking all of the ‘cousin keys.’

[Bob]

Gee, extra ice causes more emissions of a greenhouse gas which, in turn, raises the temperature, reducing the amount of ice.

It's almost as if the earth were able to regulate its own temperature. What a concept!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[neverdem]

Freezing causes warming.

Exactly, I couldn't have asked for a better subtitle.

[ApplegateRanch]

Warming tundra releases methane.

Hot tundra releases methane.

Cooling tundra releases methane.

Cold tundra releases methane.

I believe I see a pattern starting to form...

SOLUTION: pave the frick’n tundra, and build condos & shopping malls. Use vacuum cleaners to suck the trapped methane, and burn it to heat the buildings.

Yep; that gives off CO^2, but if methane is 17 (or is it 1700?) times “more damaging”, it is still a big win.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That’s not methane, that’s the Packers’ season in its death throes.

[darth]

And tonight its snowing in Houston! Hell freezes over again.

[HangnJudge]

Where is the article?

Nature mag. - requires paying for full view

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/news.2008.1275.html

[Joe 6-pack]

Yep. Global cooling causes global warming. Who’d a thunk it?

[SunkenCiv]

"Heads I win, Tails you lose" ping.

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[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

the freezing ground releases a large and unexpected burst of methane into the air.

Cows emit "large and unexpected bursts" into the air too.