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Massive Methane LEAK in Arctic sea - the End is Nigh
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[quote:TryToGetTheTruth:MV8xNzI3OTc0XzI4NjA4NzkxXzZGRjhGMDM4] Here's the summary (with accompanying picture at the link): Trouble begins with [b]widespread volcanic activity[/b][color=red]CHECK [/color] that releases enormous volumes of carbon dioxide and methane (1). The gases cause [b]rapid global warming[/b][color=red]CHECK [/color](2). A warmer ocean absorbs less oxygen from the atmosphere (3). Low oxygen (anoxia) destabilizes the chemocline, where oxygenated water meets water permeated with hydrogen sulfi de (H2S) generated by bottom-dwelling anaerobic bacteria (4). As H2S [b]concentrations build and oxygen falls[/b][color=red]CHECK[/color], the chemocline rises abruptly to the ocean surface (5). [b]Green and purple photosynthesizing sulfur bacteria[/b][color=red]CHECK[/color], which consume H2S and normally live at chemocline depth, now inhabit the H2S-rich surface waters while [b]oxygen-breathing ocean life suffocates[/b][color=red]CHECK [/color](6). H2S also diffuses into the air, [b]killing animals and plants on land[/b][color=red]CHECK [/color](7) and rising to the troposphere to [b]attack the planet’s ozone layer[/b][color=red]CHECK [/color](8). Without the ozone shield, the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation kills remaining life (9).[/quote] [/quote] All in progress, but UH OH, that only leaves one [/quote]
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"The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years."
"This is the first time that we've found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It's amazing," Dr Semiletov said.
"Some plumes were a kilometre or more wide and the emissions went directly into the atmosphere – the concentration was a hundred times higher than normal."
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