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Methane Plumes Going Off in a Massive Way

 
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I'm NOT interested in arguing over this. I just want you to know it is happening. Sort of feel a duty to share the info...debaters are a waste of my time. Those who have been watching will know what this is about. This is for you. Get your preps in order, it's going to hit hard:

[link to arctic-news.blogspot.com]
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
Mean Methane Levels reach 1800 ppb
On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958. This is 120 ppm higher than pre-industrial peak levels. This unfortunate milestone was widely reported in the media.

Now another milestone has been reached that looks even more threatening than the above one. On the morning of June 16, 2013, methane levels reached an average mean of 1800 parts per billion (ppb). This is 1100 ppb higher than pre-industrial peak levels.

[link to somalilandpress.com]
This may be the most important email I’ve ever written to you.

Scientist Igor Semiletov has sailed the Russian arctic ocean for years checking for small plumes of dangerous Methane gas. He’s mapped many of these meters-wide plumes, emitting gas 20 times more damaging to our climate than carbon dioxide. But on his last trip, as he came across the first plume, he couldn’t believe it. It was a KILOMETER wide. A vast column of gas spewing into our atmosphere. He sailed on and found another a kilometer wide, and another, and another. Hundreds of them.

Scientists are investigating, but this could be what experts warned us about. As the earth warms, it creates many “tipping points” that accelerate the warming out of control. Warming thaws the Arctic sea ice and permafrost, releasing millions of tons of Methane gas, which massively accelerates warming, which warms the Arctic more, and so on. We spin out of control. Already this year — storms, temperatures — everything is off the charts.

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We have gone beyond the tipping point. What is a Feedback Loop?


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5 stars!


methane could be a real doomscenario if this keeps going up like this.
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[link to www.weather.com]
Weather Ready Heat
Baked Alaska: All-Time Record Heat Grips State
Nick Wiltgen Published: Jun 19, 2013, 8:51 AM EDT weather.com

Alaska Vacation
Alaska, well known for its long and brutal winters, is now in the grips of a historic heat wave.

As an unusually strong and very warm ridge of high pressure is parked in the upper atmosphere above Alaska, at least five cities broke all-time record highs Monday:

And here is what is happening to sea ice in the Arctic Sea and surrounding seas NOW:
[link to www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil]
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Here is a good site to visit for Euro anomalies, note 'damage to crops' reports, and bear in mind the events are daily:

[link to www.essl.org]
European Severe Weather Database

New Mexico in SEVERE drought:

Published on Jun 10, 2013
With New Mexico facing perhaps its most severe drought in its history, legislators are forming a Drought Subcommittee to discuss what steps to take next. Rob Nikolewski of New Mexico Watchdog talks to three lawmakers about the crisis. Interviews recorded 6/10/13.


Drought shrinking cattle herds
June 18, 2013 By Jenna Zamie

QCS photo: Steven Hansen
Cattle graze on ranch land south of Tucumcari. County herds have been cut by a third.
By Steve Hansen
QCS Managing editor
Between 2009 and the first quarter of 2013, Quay County ranches have reduced their cattle herds by more than one third, according to the Quay County Assessor’s office.
County Assessor Janie Hoffman said the current drought has caused steep drops in the size of local ranch herds.
From the 2009 level of 46,844 head, the first-quarter 2013 cattle count has shrunk to a little more than 31,132 head-a drop of 33.5 percent. About two-thirds of that reduction occurred between 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. The decline totaled 8,403 head, or 21 percent, from the 2012 level to 2013′s first-quarter reading.
[link to www.qcsunonline.com]

And this is the tip of the iceberg, as they say...
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Water world may not seem so far fetched per Mr.Costner.
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5 stars!


methane could be a real doomscenario if this keeps going up like this.
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Thanks. :) Not 'could be,' but, IS.

This article came out in March but it is really interesting and the research was done by a highly qualified person:

Are Exploding Manhole Covers In Washington DC Caused By Shocking Levels Of Leaking Natural Gas?
[link to thinkprogress.org]
Dr. Jackson, the researcher who mapped the high levels of methane leaking in DC, hopes his research will inspire cities and natural gas companies to fix the leaks. As there are many cities with aging infrastructure that could potentially leak large amounts of methane into the atmosphere, these emissions could represent a large source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane is 100 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over 20 years. NOAA has already confirmed that as much as 9% of the methane produced at natural gas wells leaks into the atmosphere. As the planet warms and permafrost melts, it starts the most dangerous feedback loop in the entire carbon cycle.
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Thanks OP!
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5*'s, I have been saying this for years. This could be the real doom some of you seek.
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Pinned for IMPORTANCE, for everyone

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bump
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Don't forget the unintended consequences of chem-trails being unleashed on us that is freeing the methane by not letting the Earth cool down at night due to the poisons they are spraying during the day.


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And there's nothing we can do about it except watch it unfold.

Mother Earth's payback.
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No surprise here... Earth is entering a SEVERE ICE AGE.

Within 500 years, you will be hard-pressed to find any civilization left on Earth.

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Don't forget the unintended consequences of chem-trails being unleashed on us that is freeing the methane by not letting the Earth cool down at night due to the poisons they are spraying during the day.


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Wow...they look like photos of the sky I took from my backyard....all in one or two days a few years back.
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Op I read something similar somewhere being found in northern Alaska... possibly due too perma frost melt... can you confirm.?
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any pics of this astounding, amazing KM wide plume, or was his smartphone on the blink?
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5 stars!


methane could be a real doomscenario if this keeps going up like this.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24170033


Thanks. :) Not 'could be,' but, IS.

This article came out in March but it is really interesting and the research was done by a highly qualified person:

Are Exploding Manhole Covers In Washington DC Caused By Shocking Levels Of Leaking Natural Gas?
[link to thinkprogress.org]
Dr. Jackson, the researcher who mapped the high levels of methane leaking in DC, hopes his research will inspire cities and natural gas companies to fix the leaks. As there are many cities with aging infrastructure that could potentially leak large amounts of methane into the atmosphere, these emissions could represent a large source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane is 100 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over 20 years. NOAA has already confirmed that as much as 9% of the methane produced at natural gas wells leaks into the atmosphere. As the planet warms and permafrost melts, it starts the most dangerous feedback loop in the entire carbon cycle.
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And wasn't a whole BUNCH of methane released during the Gulf Oil Spill? Seems like I remember that there was some concern that a spark or lightning could actually cause an explosion, and it was just before hurricane season where it would carry the methane right up the East Coast.

5 Stars and thanks for this - I wish all of the "climate-tards" could get it through their heads about methane being 100 TIMES as climate-affecting as carbon dioxide could EVER be. bump
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Thanks, everyone! Good to see GLP'ers have their thinking caps on. FWIW, I got my crash course in managing a group from GLP, the link in my sig is to my FB group. I cover ABSOLUTELY breaking weather and climate news, space anomalies, meteor sightings, animal and marine die-ffs (google hypoxia...and it ties in to methane) and a lot more. I do my best to provide charts and maps, explanations and education links, and rely on actual meteorologists and climatologists for up to date reports and info.

Thanks to GLP I also learned how to spot trolls and shills, they are instabanned in my group. Also thanks to GLP, i learned which sources are reliable and which are not: i never post Daily Mail, Dutchsinse, SO, Huffpo...doomporn. What I do post are the FACTS. And the facts are FAR more chilling than sensationalized 'what if' scenarios. I will say, I think the gov buying ammo in such massive amounts is related to what is happening to our climate, and the crop damages (seriously underplayed by main stream farm report groups, but the info is there if you look past the smoke and mirrors) on top of the devastating weather extremes tells me that our gov is QUITE concerned about civil unrest.

I created the group to inform. I'm not trolling for members, we have a lot (including quite a few meteos and climate scientists who are accessible and open to questions). But you are welcome to check it out and keep up to date.
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[link to www.killerinourmidst.com]
If a methane catastrophe were to happen in the near future, it is likely that not only would a considerable percentage of existing plants and animals be killed off, but a large percentage of the human population as well, as a result of the climate change and significantly more hostile environmental conditions. Yet we may well be heading toward such a catastrophe, produced by our warming of the planet.

Just how rapidly seafloor methane will be released depends on numerous factors that are quite difficult to assess. It is possible that seafloor methane will be released so slowly that it will only have a relatively minor warming effect on Earth's climate. On the other hand, because the coming methane release will be the result of our warming of the planet via the burning of fossil and other acrbon fuels, it could happen much more quickly. Indeed, it seems that we are currently pumping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a much faster -- perhaps tens to hundreds of times faster -- rate than has ever before naturally occurred in the last half billion years or so of the Earth's history. The catastrophic warming we are causing is -- to the best of our knowledge -- unprecedented since the early days of our planet, billions of years ago. Such warming could well lead to methane catastrophe.

The onset of a methane catastrophe would be abrupt because it could be initiated by a major submarine landslide, which can happen in a matter of days or even hours, or by the venting of vast quantities of seafloor methane over a period of decades. These events can take place in what is essentially a geological eyeblink. Additional slumping and/or venting can continue for centuries to millennia.
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In a nutshell OP what is the result of this for the planet?
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we need to set a up a massive methane tax.
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[link to methane-hydrates.blogspot.com]
Image 1. (above) shows high levels of methane over the poles. Peak levels of over 2000 ppb over Antarctica have been recorded repeatedly over the past few months, which is extraordinary, the more so since the photochemical sink for methane is typically strongest during summer, while average levels of methane over Antarctica have historically been the lowest on Earth (image 2. below).
(April 1, 2013)
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Don't forget the unintended consequences of chem-trails being unleashed on us that is freeing the methane by not letting the Earth cool down at night due to the poisons they are spraying during the day.

 Quoting: Aquarius58


chempark Chemtrails don't exist. lol
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In a nutshell OP what is the result of this for the planet?
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if methane plumes go off in a big way, we are fucked. the planet will keep spinning, with mainly bacteria

bacteria will love it. chuckle
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In a nutshell OP what is the result of this for the planet?
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Ummmm......invest in Martian property?
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anything to do with it being 96'F in alaska??
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In a nutshell OP what is the result of this for the planet?
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Dramatic sea level rise.
[link to geology.com]

The skinny:
[link to www.killerinourmidst.com]

Don't believe the MSM lie that this *might* happen by 2100, it IS happening NOW.

Preps are on my mind!
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In a nutshell OP what is the result of this for the planet?
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if methane plumes go off in a big way, we are fucked. the planet will keep spinning, with mainly bacteria

bacteria will love it. chuckle
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So what your saying is the air mixed with CD will just explode?
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Earth quakes have increased dramatically in recent years. Long dormant volcanoes are waking up and alreayd active ones are popping off all over the globe. Sink holes are opening up everywhere. It should be no suprise that methane plumes are increasing as well. People need to ask why and realize what is going on.
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anything to do with it being 96'F in alaska??
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YES. What has happened in the Arctic Sea this year has been, well, BAD doesn't begin to cover it.

RIGHT NOW the whole damn thing is melting...again, i point you to this map:

[link to www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil]

And some good blogs here:

[link to theweathercentre.blogspot.com]
Andrew was one of the first to do fully cohesive research on the SSW/Polar Vortex collapse last autumn. Check the Winter Weather Wall.


[link to neven1.typepad.com]
Neven is also stellar, here is his latest on the anomalous cyclonic activity at the Arctic, which is a huge contributor to the Arctic Melt. Also, sea ice melts from below (case in point: Antarctica), so here the phrase 'As above, so below,' is highly appropriate...this brings us to the jet stream and thermohaline circulation. Basically, as the seas have warmed, the jet stream has re-adjusted...have you seen the charts for the jet stream? Ouch. [link to theenergycollective.com]
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Earth quakes have increased dramatically in recent years. Long dormant volcanoes are waking up and alreayd active ones are popping off all over the globe. Sink holes are opening up everywhere. It should be no suprise that methane plumes are increasing as well. People need to ask why and realize what is going on.
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That is what I am trying to figure out from the OP of this thread. What is the meaning and effects of this methane releases. What is the end result here??????





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