Tag: methane
The Caribou and us.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
That comment in a recent article along with the following adaptation (from the French) of a story sent to me by a colleague in Quebec Canada made me reflect on why the global community is not focused and active on pushing for immediate reductions in greenhouse [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, methane, permafrost
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Soils ain’t soils. The permafrost is no longer permanent.
Nature Geoscience
Subject Category: Biogeochemistry
Soil science: Arctic thaw
Hermann F. Jungkunst is at the Institute of Geography, Landscape Ecology, University of Gottingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 5, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany.
e-mail: hjungku@gwdg.de
Abstract
The organic matter stored in frozen Arctic soils could release significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane on thawing. Now, laboratory experiments show that re-wetting of previously thawed permafrost could increase [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, Nitrous Oxide, permafrost, Tipping Points
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Methane Leaks off Siberian Coast, Speeding Climate Change
Warmer oceans are thawing methane deposits, adding more of the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere
A large amount of methane is bubbling up from the ocean floor east of Siberia at a surprising rate and could accelerate climate change, researchers said yesterday.
The gas is bubbling up from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf because warming ocean water [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, methane clathrates, Siberia, Tipping Points
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How methane leaks through permafrost
Recently a team from Russia, the US, and Sweden found that the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) is releasing around 8 teragrams of methane from subsea sediments each year. Now team member Natalia Shakhova and colleague Dmitry Nicolsky have come up with a new model for the Dmitry Laptev Strait region of the shelf to explain exactly how [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, Tipping Points
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10 Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back If We Don’t Stop Our Wanton Destruction of the Environment
Deniers are dancing on the graves of their reputations, to say nothing of reality itself. But Earth will still get the last laugh on all of them, and us for that matter.
March 21, 2010 | Scott Thill – Alternet
And if the ground’s not cold/Everything is gonna burn/We’ll all take turns/I’ll get mine too. — Pixies, “Monkey Gone [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, Tipping Points
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Methane May Be Building Under Antarctic Ice
BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, a new study suggests.
In recent years scientists have learned that liquid water lurks under much of Antarctica’s massive ice sheet, and so, they say, the potential microbial habitat in this watery world is [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, methane, methane clathrates, Tipping Points
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Mother Nature’s effervescence, ‘Bubbles,’
For those who have read my book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World, the reports this week by the science community of the discovery of methane release from thawing methane clathrates from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf will come as little surprise. In chapter 9 Mother Natures [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Tipping Points
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Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
This report fron the New York Times follows up on other reports posted this week by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming.
Now researchers at the University [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Siberia
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Increasing methane leaks in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could trigger abrupt warming
Reported in Science this tipping point on the destabilization of methane clathrates was detailed as a possible consequence on Arctic warming in ZERO Greenhouse Emissions. The book by Bob Williamson of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation suggests this as one of multiple interlinked outcomes. It is required reading to determine how action must now be focused, [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, methane, natural systems, permafrost, Siberia, Tipping Points
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All aboard, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. There is a 25% chance this plane will crash.
By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
The reality of that welcome to us would be our reply, “I’m not getting on this flight!”
Yet we are all in fact on that flight with climate change and the plane has taken off.
Much has been promoted in the media lately that climate change science is somehow conspiring to [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, finite resources, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, resource depletion, stop climate change, Tipping Points
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