‘This is truly terrifying’: Scientists discover ocean waters ‘boiling with methane’ in Arctic
they found a 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea “boiling with methane bubbles.”
“This is the most powerful seep I have ever been able to observe,” lead scientist Igor Semiletov said Monday, using a term for methane gas bubbling up from the seafloor to the surface.
“No one has ever recorded anything similar.”
Compared with carbon dioxide, methane has a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere
but is better at trapping radiation, so
methane’s impact is more than 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period
Experts are increasingly concerned about the consequences of thawing permafrost that is located both beneath land and water in the planet’s coldest regions.
Last week, the Washington Post reported on
“stunning and dramatic” scenes from a region of Eastern Siberia where “sections of many older, wooden buildings already sag toward the ground—
rendered uninhabitable by the unevenly thawing earth,” and “rivers are rising and running faster,”
sweeping away entire neighborhoods.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/this-is-truly-terrifying-scientists-discover-ocean-waters-boiling-with-methane-in-arctic/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1690&re cip_id=298460&list_id=1
Then add in the underreported / unmonitored methane from oil/gas extraction, etc, etc, etc.
Repent! The End Is Nigh!