DC> DC> DC>> Do you have any idea what happens when the tundra thaws
DC> DC> out? 

DC> DC> EH>> It that so? Feel free to explain it, Mr. Science.

DC> DC> DC> It releases methane, Mr Neophyte.
DC> 
DC> DC> EH> fuel source to petroleum is quit easy. It's also a cleaner
DC> DC> EH> fuel that petroleum products. 
DC> 
DC> DC>Jesus fucking Christ.  Do you have even the slightest clue as to 
DC> DC>how much methane is in the tundra?  Any at all?  

DC> JB> Please educate us.

DC>=======

DC>Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb
DC>by John Atcheson

DC>The Arctic Council's recent report on the effects of global warming
DC>in the far north paints a grim picture: global floods, extinction of
DC>polar bears and other marine mammals, collapsed fisheries.  But it
DC>ignored a ticking time bomb buried in the Arctic tundra.

DC>There are enormous quantities of naturally occurring greenhouse
DC>gasses trapped in ice-like structures in the cold northern muds and
DC>at the bottom of the seas.  These ices, called clathrates, contain
DC>3,000 times as much methane as is in the atmosphere.  Methane is more
DC>than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.

DC>Now here's the scary part.  A temperature increase of merely a few
DC>would degrees cause these gases to volatilize and "burp" into the
DC>would atmosphere, which further raise temperatures, which would
DC>release yet more methane, heating the Earth and seas further, and so
DC>on.  There's 400 gigatons of methane locked in the frozen arctic
DC>tundra - enough to start this chain reaction - and the kind of
DC>warming the Arctic Council predicts is sufficient to melt the
DC>clathrates and release these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

I see.  well we certainly wouldn't want mother nature to belch methane 
into the atmosphere.  She already pollutes the oceans enough with oil 
seepage from the ocean floor and the air enough through natural forest 
fires and volcanic eruptions.  

Typical hysterical liberal hoopla that thinks man can overcome mother 
nature.  The elitism never ends.


Jeff

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