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Massive Methane LEAK in Arctic sea - the End is Nigh
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1003588:MV8xNzI3OTc0XzI4NjUxNzg1X0M0NjZDNTlB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1516551:MV8xNzI3OTc0XzI4NjUxNTM1XzI0MTZDODNG] [B]ased on what we see in the atmosphere, there is no evidence of substantial increases in methane emissions from the Arctic in the past 20 years. Scientist are probably to say that to avoid mass panic. [/quote] Yeah, we will be lied to. I understand that. Hell, I even agree with it. That doesn't mean I won't be doing my best to dig past the veils of deception and see the truth, no matter how horrible. Most people would panic. I know *I* did, but the ultimate realization that this was occurring was a night about a year ago. I had already decided it was 99% likely to be occurring, so I'd plastic-sheeted my windows upstairs. As I was doing that, I heard Michelle Obama's voice encouraging people to insulate their homes, and the oddly strong emotion I felt in her voice when I heard her say it. (Which makes sense to me now.) Suddenly I smelled something in the air, something unusual. Then it kinda faded, which is what H2S does, burns out your olfactory sense fast, so you lose the ability to smell it. And at the same time I heard a man outside on the street running and I heard him chokingly gasp, 'Help!' I was too scared to tear down the sheeting. I heard a car start and then at the same time I heard a hundred or two small thuds as something - a bunch of somethings - hit the roof of the garage across my street, not all at once, but thud-a-thud-thud over maybe 3-5 seconds. I heard the car drive, but then it just died out, couldn't have made it 50 feet (though again, I wasn't about to open up my protection and LOOK). I called 911 and explained that I'd just heard what sounded like dead birds hitting the garage across the street and that I'd heard a man yelling for help. (And it sounded more like a death rattle to me.) The female 911 operator asked me if they should send the police over. THAT was when I REALLY got scared. They aren't supposed to even ask that question. What if someone's holding a gun to someone's head? They are ALWAYS supposed to send the police. Suddenly paranoid, I told them no thanks and hung up. No cops ever showed up. However, about 30 minutes later - at maybe 3:30 AM, mind you - I heard a street sweeper come down the street (probably picking up the bird carcasses). I heard the guy's car start and park. When I dared look outside in the light of the next morning, nothing was amiss. That's when I deduced that the human die-off was happening all over, and being hidden, as best they can. That next day I was on my front porch. Nice neighbor across the street, single guy, had gone to work. I saw a man in his backyard. Then smoke started coming from his fireplace. An hour or two later I saw the man again, and shortly thereafter my neighbor's fireplace was off, and the smoke stopped. I think 'they' BROKE IN and started the fireplace, to burn out whatever H2S was in there. I honestly thought it was HE, my neighbor, who had died, but obviously not. Anyway, after that, I panicked. I rented a van and hit the road, saw some sights, said goodbye to the giant sequioas, spent a month calming down and wrapping my mind around this shit. That's why I'm calm about it NOW: because I already HAD my panic phase. Now, I just bear witness to the event, and mourn the dead, try to think of anything that might help. [/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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