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Hidden Gas Source Could Speed Global Warming
aolnews.com ^ | March 4, 2010 | Gregory Mone

Posted on 03/05/2010 10:09:05 PM PST by neverdem

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But further warming could trigger added leakage of the greenhouse gas in the area, potentially leading to a positive feedback cycle. "The current global change might contribute to this process. It might accelerate this process," says University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Natalia Shakhova. "The subsea permafrost is significantly more sensitive to further warming."

Follow da money. Your taxes hard at work employing Russian scientists

Natalia Shakhova is a NOAA stooge who dances to their funding tune

This is a NOAA funded study therefore is suspect. NOAA is cherry picking what it will fund. There is a lot going on, on this planet that if NOA threw money at it would contradict global warming

http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/indiv/iarc_all_staff.php?photo=nshakhova

http://research.iarc.uaf.edu/SSSS/

http://research.iarc.uaf.edu/SSSS/funding.php

 

41 posted on 03/06/2010 3:18:43 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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"What they don’t explain is how this organic material frozen in the permafrost got there in the first place. Obviously it was warm enough eons ago for the organic matter to be deposited there. In contrast, it was covered an ice sheet a mile thick not so long ago."

Bingo. It's interesting as a regional anomaly, if that's what it is, but it's a nothingburger compared to our overdue (and impeding) modern Ice Age.

42 posted on 03/06/2010 4:15:42 AM PST by StAnDeliver (\)
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To: neverdem; Fractal Trader; tubebender; marvlus; Genesis defender; markomalley; Carlucci; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

43 posted on 03/06/2010 4:56:23 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: neverdem
AOL News

AOHell News doesn't pass the laugh test....best thing to do is stop reading once you see those two words in series...on a side note, sarasotamagazine.com has an equally laughable article about the 'rising sea level' making everyone in sarasota homeless...Koolaid now being served in aisle one.

44 posted on 03/06/2010 5:37:35 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: neverdem


45 posted on 03/06/2010 6:31:18 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: neverdem

Methane levels are stabilizing.

Even the climate models build in a stable methane forcing starting in a decade or so.

Methane has already increased from 700 ppb to 1900 ppb (and is expected to stay below 2000 ppb). We have already seen ALL of the methane warming there is to come.

The climate scientists don’t even know what their own science says.


46 posted on 03/06/2010 6:31:25 AM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: neverdem
But further warming could trigger added leakage of the greenhouse gas in the area

Then again, it could not.

47 posted on 03/06/2010 6:33:30 AM PST by FourPeas (servantscenter.org -- Jesus' hands and feet on the streets serving those in need)
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To: neverdem

The last Eemian interglacial 125,000 years ago was 2.5C warmer than today globally (which would be 4.0C to 5.0C warmer in the Arctic than today) and there was no additional release of methane - just the normal interglacial rise to 600 ppb to 700 ppb.


48 posted on 03/06/2010 6:55:22 AM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: neverdem

Drill, baby, drill!


49 posted on 03/06/2010 9:43:07 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: blackbart.223

“But she and other scientists will be monitoring that icy hot spot for years to come.”

On your’s and mine tax dollars no doubt....


50 posted on 03/06/2010 9:44:04 AM PST by mo
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51 posted on 03/06/2010 11:58:44 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
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...could trigger added leakage of the greenhouse gas in the area, potentially leading to a positive feedback cycle. "The current global change might contribute to this process. It might accelerate this process," says University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Natalia Shakhova.

It could lead to more unicorns reproducing too - if there were unicorns - - or more global warming - if there was global warming.

If we had bacon we could have bacon and eggs if we had eggs...

52 posted on 03/06/2010 12:29:26 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: digger48
Wasn’t me.

LOL!
53 posted on 03/06/2010 1:17:38 PM PST by RogerFGay
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To: ApplegateRanch

:’D It’s so simple, and yet so elegant and mathematical. Bravo AGR!


54 posted on 03/06/2010 1:18:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: neverdem

Let me be the first to call Gregory Mone (who wrote the article) a liar. This issue has already been around the block. Methane leaks are not uncommon and this one is quite tiny compared to total world-wide release of methane into the atmosphere. The researcher who first reported this, apparently wants more funding to continue the research. But it’s nothing for the general public to be concerned about.


55 posted on 03/06/2010 1:21:00 PM PST by RogerFGay
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To: ApplegateRanch

:’)


56 posted on 03/06/2010 1:34:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: RogerFGay
The researcher who first reported this, apparently wants more funding to continue the research.

Is his name Grant Junkie?

57 posted on 03/06/2010 2:10:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
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To: neverdem

Burn it the create carbon dioxide and water.


58 posted on 03/06/2010 2:59:57 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: tpmintx
Turn it into CO2 and heat somebody’s house. 7M Tons of methane can heat a few houses.

All you gotta do is light it. Where the CH4 - O2 mixture is in the combustible range, you'll get a few marsh lights. (In Siberia, who cares about marsh lights?) And CO2 and some water will result.

On the other hand, lets speed the production of CH4 up. It may help delay the ice age that awaits us.

59 posted on 03/06/2010 3:50:41 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: Smokin' Joe
This appears to have been going on since time immemorial. Just like underground burning coal seams have been a fact since all of recorded history. Just because it has only recently been studied, media flunkies think it just started. And "scientists" will let them believe that too, as it means money in their pockets.
60 posted on 03/06/2010 8:22:57 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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