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Huge plumes of methane in the arctic ocean.
Crap! Russia might beat us as the world's provider of natural gas. Come on US companies, get up there and tap that gas.
I think it's pretty sad that papers in the UK are showing this front and center, while the NSA-driven, Faux News types are, at best, like "Hey, wanna watch me light a fart?"
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I think it's pretty sad that papers in the UK are showing this front and center, while the NSA-driven, Faux News types are, at best, like "Hey, wanna watch me light a fart?"
Is this really getting no play in the us?
Is this really getting no play in the us?
Nada. I can't even find it on cnn
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Latest: President Putin vows to single-handedly stop methane plumes by plugging them with his own tears, which are the densest substance known to man.
@Werthead: Yes, but can he roundhouse kick a black hole and make it turn white?
Is this really getting no play in the us?
Little if any.
Personally I blame Man-Bear-Pig. It is obvious he has been hiding his poop there for years. And anyone who watched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome knows how much methane pig poop makes, so just think about how much worse Man-Bear-Pig poop must be.
It's really not funny.
That's pretty much game over then.
No great surprise, it was already locked in. Just a question of when.
People always say, "Oh, people always say the world's going to end," but I've very purposefully and consciously avoided reproducing for a reason.
Same here! No kids to worry about, so I guess I'm gonna party like it's 1999. :)
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While methane release from sources in the Arctic is a serious concern... it should be noted that the article linked in the OP is a year and a half old. Hence the lack of recent coverage in the US... or anywhere.
Thus far methane 'plumes' in the oceans, like those described in the article, have predominantly been dissolving into the water before reaching the surface and therefor not getting into the atmosphere. As the water gets warmer and the plumes bigger there will be increasing amounts leaking into the atmosphere, but it isn't clear when that will happen. Methane release from melting permafrost is a more immediate concern, but atmospheric methane levels have been fairly steady since ~1998 (when we got industrial methane emissions under control). There has been some uptick in the past few years, but not enough to definitively say that we have kicked off a natural methane feedback cycle;
Atmospheric methane level over time
All that being said... yes, we are clearly screwed.
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