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Subject TOP SCIENTIST: Only one ship testing methane levels in Gulf, NOAA hiding results; Amount is "just startlingly high"

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Methane?  How can it be releasing methane when there are ships right there with giant flames on them?

Wouldn't any methane gases being released combust with fires burning so near by?

No raging inferno!

Helium is the gas most associated with mud or asphalt volcanos on the Gulf seabed.  They are incombustible.

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Methane dissolves in water kinda like soda is bubbly , until such time as it reaches a critical saturation point ..... some does come to the surface and is turned into gas which then drifts wherever it wants, and they have already had a fire on the enterprise that im not sure I ever caught THEIR explanation for and even if I had I am sure I dont trust it, could someone look at this chart and tell me what pm2.5 is cause FAIRHOPE ALA sure seems to have 65 pm2.5 and I sure hope that not 65 pp2.5m .....

http://gulfcoast.airnowtech.org/
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Sigh?  Oh dear, on again with those scientific explanations to counter an obvious common sense one.  The very same one you use.  If it goes wherever it wants, what's to prevent it from drifting near the ships burn-off flames and igniting the vapors that are reportedly being released in large quantities.

In my mind, the thing to worry about is the tar that all that dispersant is being carried on.  It's sticky and you play hell trying to get rid of it.  Ever.
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[UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye] notes “I have read the reports from NOAA and I have yet to see methane measurements.”

She says “the biggest hole [in research on the disaster] is the gas data.” …

Joye says the amount of methane that’s getting into the air is unknown because only one ship is actually doing any measuring of gases in the air.

“BP affirms that it [methane] has seeped into the atmosphere, as if it doesn’t matter,” says Joye. “But it’s a potent greenhouse gas. We don’t have enough data right now.”

She continues “There is an under-appreciation of how much gas is coming out of this well… Methane is a huge fraction of what is coming out of this well.”

Joye, whose background is in chemistry, says when she and her colleagues got out their calculators and started looking at the measures of gas produced by the ruptured BP well-head, “the numbers we came up with are just startlingly high.”

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