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"The event, which scientists are calling a "methane burp" could advance global warming by 15 to 35 years at any moment. Arctic researcher Natalia Shakohova of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, told New Scientist that this release is "highly possible at any time." More than a trillion tonnes of methane are trapped under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, and much more could be under the entire Arctic. A decade of ice melt and warming seas will trigger a climate catastrophe, the researchers said, releasing up to 50 billion tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas."
Yawn... when is the end of the world suppose to happen? At the rate it is going, you might as well call it natural disturbances rather than man-made...
Yawn... when is the end of the world suppose to happen? At the rate it is going, you might as well call it natural disturbances rather than man-made...
What will come first? America turns into Greece or the Sea swallows Manhattan?
I agree there is too much "end of the world" attitude when discussing topics that need to be addressed.
I think it hurts the argument.
Global warming is boring now. It's the atheist equivalent of some homeless guy holding a sign that says The End is Near.... for the past several decades
What will come first? America turns into Greece or the Sea swallows Manhattan?
I agree there is too much "end of the world" attitude when discussing topics that need to be addressed.
I think it hurts the argument.
I think I read that the sea will swallow Manhattan in about 2,000 years. Climate change has been over hyped by some as the end of the world type of event. It's more likely to start having negative impacts on the economy, animal and plant species, and our way of life. The doom and gloom hype about the sea swallowing cities is still a long way away if we don't get a handle on greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Not much we can currently do about nature emitting greenhouse gases.
"The event, which scientists are calling a "methane burp" could advance global warming by 15 to 35 years at any moment. Arctic researcher Natalia Shakohova of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, told New Scientist that this release is "highly possible at any time." More than a trillion tonnes of methane are trapped under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, and much more could be under the entire Arctic. A decade of ice melt and warming seas will trigger a climate catastrophe, the researchers said, releasing up to 50 billion tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas."
The engineers will figure out a way to tap all that methane, and burn it to produce energy for AC.
And they have also come up with a new twist about why it stopped warming or rather its paused. The oceans have absorbed the heat. But like the methane thing, they are warning with dire predictions that it can't take any more rather guessing it can't take anymore.
All these theories.
No hard facts.
Face it, like the ice age was coming in the 70's, which never happened, this too, like a case of bad diahrrea, this too shall pass.
Global warming is boring now. It's the atheist equivalent of some homeless guy holding a sign that says The End is Near.... for the past several decades
And it doesn't matter how much science is behind climate change, the theists will stick their heads in the sand because they have faith their father from the clouds will come down and rescue them before the Earth is destroyed.
Damn! And all this time, I've been worried about the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park.
My worries will have to take a number and get in line.
Supervolcanoes with the power to destroy human civilisations may have much shorter fuses than was previously thought, scientists believe.
The news could be bad for the US, where a supervolcano is said to be simmering beneath Yellowstone National Park.
If it erupted, two thirds of the country could be rendered uninhabitable.
Supervolcanoes are fuelled by giant pools of magma that form deep underground.
Geologists had thought it took between 100,000 to 200,000 years for a supervolcano magma pool to build up enough pressure to erupt.
But the new study suggests that the giant magma bodies may only exist for a few thousand years, or even a few hundred, before exploding.
A magma reservoir six miles below Yellowstone has been rising at a record rate since 2004.
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