[April Lexington]

THIS IS ALL BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!

[digger48]

Wasn’t me.

[Lakeshark]

Lordy, lordy.

After the past few years, we all could use some real warming.........so bring it on!

[Paladin2]

Glaciers are NOT conducive to abundant life.

[blackbart.223]

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

Words fail me.

[Apercu]

To all Gorebal Warming Hoaxers in their never ending search for more bogus data....yo mama!

[SunkenCiv]

The permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, a relatively shallow section of the Arctic Ocean, has been pumping 7.7 million tons of methane into the air each year -- roughly the amount released into the atmosphere by the rest of the world's oceans combined.

Yeah, and the oceans are warming at depth, hiding the evidence for global warming; and the oceans aren't warming at depth, but CO2 still causes it; and CO2 doesn't cause it, soot does; and soot doesn't cause it, water vapor does; and one unfounded claim after another to buy time, when what should be happening is, the global warming demagogues all go to Leavenworth. Thanks neverdem.

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[smoothsailing]

Shakhova said it is too early to tell how her research could affect the projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Oh come on, Shakhova, that's easy. The IPCC will say this proves we have to speed up the surrender of liberty, sovereignty, and wealth in the industrialized world, or the planet will die next year.

[familyop]

Those lefties do exaggerate. I ate some Mexican food, drank some beer, went for a little walk in the area of my pre-Ancient ancestors.

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[tpmintx]

Sounds like the answer to this problem is to tap this source of methane and put it in the pipeline. Turn it into CO2 and heat somebody’s house. 7M Tons of methane can heat a few houses.

[dila813]

Revised Headline, “AMOUNT OF METHANE RELEASED INTO AIR INDICATES THAT WE ARE ALREADY DEAD!”

[abigailsmybaby]

These people are getting to be just pitiful.

[mowowie]

Oh jeez....This is all in need to hear.

[pillut48]

He who smelt it, dealt it! LOL.

[Smokin' Joe]

Scientists have uncovered a powerful source of a leading greenhouse gas that is venting into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates. The permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, a relatively shallow section of the Arctic Ocean, has been pumping 7.7 million tons of methane into the air each year -- roughly the amount released into the atmosphere by the rest of the world's oceans combined.

But since scientists just discovered it, we don't know if it started last year, a century ago, or a million years ago. In short, just knowing it is there does not mean that anything different is going on from what has gone on, ever. They just know about it now.

No cause for panic, and certainly no ability to attribute any change which might occur in climate to it.

Maybe the 'marsh gas' would explain a few UFOs, though...

[kik5150]

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.

[ApplegateRanch]

In the past, atmospheric methane levels have varied between .3 and .7 parts per million. Currently, the numbers are up to 1.85 parts per million -- a 400,000-year high. Above the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, this figure is even greater.

IIRC it has been at least 100,000-500,000 times higher in the past; the rest being mainly ammonia. Damned bacteria came along, contaminated the planet, and screwed up the balance. That gave all you Hooo-mons a nitrox mix, and there was nothing we could do about it, except retreat to Titan.

[stboz]

7.7 billion tons? Somebody check my math.

That sounds about like 240 trillion cu.ft. a year and we're still freezing our asses off.

How many cu. ft. per year do we need for utilities and industry just in the U.S.?