Here’s another point of science that will give rational people concern, and which cannot in any way be explained as “no problem” by stolen e-mails: Methane releases from the floor of the East Siberian Arctic are much larger than predicted.

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Frozen forms of methane dot the bottoms of our oceans. Warming of the oceans might be able to trigger an explosive thawing of the methane hydrates, as the frozen forms are known, seriously adding to our worldwide greenhouse gas problems.


Methane hydrates releasing methane gas in bubbles in the ocean

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5970/1246
http://www.globalchangeblog.com/2010/03/ea...lot-of-methane/
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/08/21...es-evaporating/

This post has been edited by ELm_ELm: Mar 5 2010, 07:19 PM