[publius1]

Uh oh -- a world already in danger from cow farts is now even worse off because of permafrost failures. What's next?

[samtheman]

Methane whooshes out and bursts into a thin blue flame.

Reminds me of Keith Olbermann.

[Venturer]

Methane bubbling to the surface sounds to me like a great untapped source of energy.

Isn’t there a way to take advantage of it?

[libertylover]

But in the past few decades, as the Earth has warmed,

Et tu, Washington Times?

[Vaquero]

the earth has been warmer than it is now... even in the recent past of the last 2000 years....we are coming out of the little ice age now (20th and 21st century).

what did they do back then???

they lived and died.

[exDemMom]

If they’re smart, they’re busy inventing a way to capture all that methane and burn it for electricity.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[mmercier]

If the Siberian and Canadian tundra thaws, things will change in an unpleasant way.

There are hundreds of trillion cubic feet of methane locked up in hydrate form.

This has happened before, and will happen again.

[Humble Servant]

Obama’s fault.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Yet despite "scientist's fears" the opposite is happening......

[TalonDJ]

Sounds like a good premise for a bad movie.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

What’s going to happen if a Siberian lights a fart? Doomsday?

[RichInOC]

Something’s down there…and it’s farting.

[PATRIOT1876]

*a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - at a perilous rate.*

23 x almost zero is approximately zero.

Tell Chicken Little it’s safe to come outside.

[Eaker]

Methane leak

Ping for your expertise.

[Mike Darancette]

Better extract all that methane before it gets into the atmosphere. Or we could pump it into the Gulf of Mexico where the critters will snack om it.