"An event unprecedented in human history is today" - Methane gas at record highs

I agree,

I do not deny that there is climate change, I just can't quite see the direct link with humans yet, we as a race will also need to figure out ways to minimize its impact on us and the planet.

1. Anyone point out that it is Spring in the Arctic? And that sea ice normally starts melting a huge amount and then refreezes around October?

2. Anyone point out that "human history" is an incredibly short period of time regarding methane and that we haven't directly measured methane in the atmosphere for even 100 years?

3. Anyone point out that the sea level has risen hundreds of feet in the last 5000 years (many submerged ancient cities) in that same period this idiot "climatologist" (i.e con artist) says is "remarkable stable?"

Or is everyone just accepting what this liar/activist from the Sierra Club is saying?

I suggest that anyone who believes these idiots looks up their quotes and how their leaders say it is okay to mislead the public for the "greater good."

They want us using solar/wind power because they've made it fashionable. It doesn't work on a large scale and requires massive subsidies - so they have to justify it by lying and making people frightened and easy to control.

Other panets have earthquakes too.


MCES6: Do earthquakes happen on other planets?

Margaret: There is evidence of seismicity on Mars and perhaps on Venus. Several moons of Jupiter and Titan, a moon of Saturn, show signs of tectonic activity so they would likely have seismicity associated with this activity. Our own moon also is seismically active.

[link to www.nasa.gov]

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This might be helpful:

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..."

Fuck using oil as an energy source, why aren't burning methane in our cars and trucks and homes??? I'm talking practically free energy source people. This ain't doom, this could be blessing, if countries would unite towards extracting methane for use.

AMEN BROTHER!

"Now your making sense and I'm making snacks!" - Mortecai

There was a time when there was no ice on the South Pole. If you google 'Piri Reis map' it shows the outline of the South Pole. The map is a copy of an older map meaning at some stage in our history there was no ice on the South Pole.

What I am saying is that this is all a part of a natural cycles.

All you can do is be prepared.

Food, water, bug-out-bag, ect.

Forget relying on the State for anything. Hell, you can't even get the truth from these people.

The earth's gonna do what the earth is gonna do... 150 years of the industrial revolution is nothing but a fart in the wind when you consider what this great big blue speck in the galaxy is capable of.

Just remember that the people of Pompei where probably told by their government to sacrifice some chickens to the gods or something when the volcano started rumbling... look how that turned out for them.

Be ready and trust yourself. Guck the fovernment.

This sounds a little hyped, but who knows.
My question to you is, are you not fimiliar with peak oil? also peak oil has nothing to do with how much oil is in the ground,it has to do with flow rates--net flow(EROEI), we better find something soon.

fuck it with the amount of shit going on in the world there is nothing none of us can do about it, bollocks to life im going to live mine to the full whilst im still here.. see u all in the orion nebular...

lol

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[link to earthobservatory.nasa.gov]

Methane Explosion Warmed the Prehistoric Earth, Possible Again

December 10, 2001
A tremendous release of methane gas frozen beneath the sea floor heated the Earth by up to 13 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) 55 million years ago, a new NASA study confirms. NASA scientists used data from a computer simulation of the paleo-climate to better understand the role of methane in climate change. While most greenhouse gas studies focus on carbon dioxide, methane is 20 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere.

In the last 200 years, atmospheric methane has more than doubled due to decomposing organic materials in wetlands and swamps and human aided emissions from gas pipelines, coal mining, increases in irrigation and livestock flatulence.
However, there is another source of methane, formed from decomposing organic matter in ocean sediments, frozen in deposits under the seabed.

"We understand that other greenhouse gases apart from carbon dioxide are important for climate change today," said Gavin Schmidt, the lead author of the study and a researcher at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, NY and Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. "This work should help quantify how important they have been in the past, and help estimate their effects in the future."

The study will be presented on December 12, 2001, at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

Generally, cold temperatures and high pressure keep methane stable beneath the ocean floor, however, that might not always have been the case. A period of global warming, called the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM), occurred around 55 million years ago and lasted about 100,000 years. Current theory has linked this to a vast release of frozen methane from beneath the sea floor, which led to the earth warming as a result of increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A movement of continental plates, like the Indian subcontinent, may have initiated a release that led to the LPTM, Schmidt said. We know today that when the Indian subcontinent moved into the Eurasian continent, the Himalayas began forming. This uplift of tectonic plates would have decreased pressure in the sea floor, and may have caused the large methane release. Once the atmosphere and oceans began to warm, Schmidt added, it is possible that more methane thawed and bubbled out. Some scientists speculate current global heating could eventually lead to a similar scenario in the future if the oceans warm substantially.

When methane (CH4) enters the atmosphere, it reacts with molecules of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H), called OH radicals. The OH radicals combine with methane and break it up, creating carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O), both of which are greenhouse gases. Scientists previously assumed that all of the released methane would be converted to CO2 and water after about a decade. If that happened, the rise in CO2 would have been the biggest player in warming the planet. But when scientists tried to find evidence of increased CO2 levels to explain the rapid warming during the LPTM, none could be found.

The models used in the new study show that when you greatly increase methane amounts, the OH quickly gets used up, and the extra methane lingers for hundreds of years, producing enough global warming to explain the LTPM climate.

"Ten years of methane is a blip, but hundreds of years of atmospheric methane is enough to warm up the atmosphere, melt the ice in the oceans, and change the whole climate system," Schmidt said. "So we may have solved a conundrum."
Schmidt said the study should help in understanding the role methane plays in current greenhouse warming.

"If you want to think about reducing future climate change, you also have to be aware of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide, like methane and chlorofluorocarbons," said Schmidt. "It gives a more rounded view, and in the short-term, it may end up being more cost-efficient to reduce methane in the atmosphere than it is to reduce carbon dioxide."

great idea
let's go go go
and imprison those that don't believe
cause they will be killing the world instead of oh my god....SAVING IT (fear instilled in school-going youths...(oh yeah thanks al)...is that any better than the Vatican threatening us with Hell?

You have convinced me.

I'm moving to the Brooks Mountain range near Mt. Denali, in northern Alaska.

I'm bringing my flanels, snowshoes, a shotgun, and five cases of beer. I'll also have ton's of sunscreen & my beach wear for next summer!

You're all invited, but bring more beer.

"The evidence is there (you can verify it with simple experiments). It does not matter whether you 'believe' or not. You can stand infront of a speeding train and 'believe' it wont kill you as much as like. Facts are facts."

Between the guy you were replying to, the religious fundies who want this to happen because they're stupid enough to think Jeebus will return when the world ends, and the cynical greedy sociopaths in charge who don't give a fuck about anything but their personal short-term profit margins...

I'm kind of happy we're going to go extinct. We didn't weed out these destructive elements from our midst. Rather, we let them rule us. We let them dictate the course of our evolution. We put a person on the moon and then reverted to this short-sighted bullshit. Let humanity die and make way for a smarter species to evolve in our place. Life itself will survive us. We're the ones who won't survive us.

no money no can do.....

one of my favorite shows maybe even my favorite.. Rickey for president

Industrially produced methane comes from burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, which is the primary component of natural gas, which is burned to heat many homes and businesses. Methane is also released from active coal mines, and even abandoned coal mines that are no longer being used.

Remarkably, it is domestic hoofed-mammals like cows and sheep that are amongst the planet's major emitters of methane. By eating and digesting large quantities of grass, then burping and farting methane into the atmosphere, livestock contribute 21% of human-induced methane emissions. Currently, agricultural scientists are working to create special diets for cows that attempt to reduce this harmful waste, as beef and dariy cattle are responsible for 75% of the methane produced from livestock each year...

And for the Jesus Deniers... He is already here... So think again...

This Earth And It's Animals are taking care of the virus of wickedness... Those that deny that fairy boy... Just as written...

I purposely modified my truck to belch out more carbons!!!

WOOHOO!!!

And yes all the planets are warming the sun does much more than just throw of light... More than a suntan... It Lives... And It Gives what it lives for... Life...

Record numbers of people plus methane plus oil spills plus nuclear meltdowns plus emerging diseases equal doom in our lifetime, some few will survive to start the rot all over again. I feel bad for all of the poor animals on land and sea, this extinction event has already begun,IMO.

Cows kill....we need cow ban legislation!

Yep

let's not forget the size of our penises