BBC NEWS: PLANETARY EMERGENCY!!!!! (yes, the mainstream media uttered the two words we never thought we'd hear from them...more than a month ago)



BBC News, March 17, 2012
Climate "tech fixes" urged for Arctic methane

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Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency"...........
Several teams of scientists trying to measure how much methane is actually being released have reported seeing vast bubbles coming up through the water - although analysing how much this matters is complicated by the absence of similar measurements from previous decades.

Nevertheless, Prof Wadhams told MPs, the release could be expected to get stronger over time. "With 'business-as-usual' greenhouse gas emissions, we might have warming of 9-10C in the Arctic. "That will cement in place the ice-free nature of the Arctic Ocean - it will release methane from offshore, and a lot of the methane on land as well." This would - in turn - exacerbate warming, across the Arctic and the rest of the world. Abrupt methane releases from frozen regions may have played a major role in two events, 55 and 251 million years ago, that extinguished much of the life then on Earth. snip
[link to www.bbc.co.uk]





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