Scientists have today warned that global warming could rapidly accelerate asmillions of tons of methane escape from the arctic seabed. According to preliminary findings, as the Arctic region gets warmer massive deposits of the greenhouse gas – 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising to the surface.
Orjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, one of the expedition’s leaders, said in an email from their Russian research ship that, for the first time, the team had discovered an extensive area of methane release so intense that “the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubbles to the sea surface.” The team believe that the accelerated release is connected to rising temperatures throughout the Arctic region.
Gustafsson went on to report that “the conventional thought has been that the permafrost ‘lid’ on the sub-sea sediments on the Siberian shelf should cap and hold the massive reservoirs of shallow methane deposits in place.” However, extensive research across thousands of square miles of the Arctic seabed had revealed growing evidence “that the permafrost lid is starting to get perforated and thus leak methane.”
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anonymoussays
再也受不了了。我已经厌倦了世界的规划者、政客和科学家为了执行他们的“秘密”议程而在全球变暖问题上对公众撒谎。
You may have most of the people fooled, but then there is people like me who is aware of your diabolical scheme.
Aaronsays
Maybe the leaking methane is contributing to global warming and not us?
Hopesays
I watched some of the “rightalk”. Thanks for the link. It is all just frustrating. I’m sure each side, or the many sides, have their own agenda(s). There has to be so many facets of truth and non truths, with some trying to prove their theories, causing panic, etc.. Who do we believe anymore?
Alexsays
so harness it! Get some sort of gas collector like they have for cows and make cars that run on liquid methane or something like that. Solve the energy crisis. Stop worrying and start doing.
Torqsays
In my opinion, this article just goes to show that the Global Warming issue is much more complex than Al Gore and his cronies of misinformation, alarmism, and deliberate deception would have us believe. Remember the “Hole In The Ozone” deception they used to get everyone to sign on to the Rio Accords and ban CFC’s?
Warming and cooling trends have been going on for millions of years before humans ever stood upright and will continue long after humans are extinct. They are more a product of volcanic activity or lack thereof than anything else that humans have done or failed to do.
Mark Willeysays
我在想关于全球变暖的问题北冰洋的甲烷沉积物是如何影响整个世界的?它会对地球产生什么影响?这是我好奇的问题,现在我只有一个看法,全球变暖,很重要,所以世界在很长一段时间内经历了什么。你们不知道没有什么是永恒的,包括地球上存在的生命,但就像在日常生活中一样,世界各地的生命最终都会结束,地球也会结束,它不在我们的手中,也不在我们的力量来拯救它,上帝创造了它,上帝会拿走它。太空旅行到底是怎么回事?每个人都能从中得到什么呢,什么都没有我们只需要纳税给他们买新的太空飞船和燃料飞到太空去,为什么?谁在乎他们认为如果地球死亡或被摧毁,我们就会快乐地飞到另一个星球的太空中,生活在那里。不,事情不是这样的,一切都结束了,什么都没有了,所有的存在都将消失,甚至他们的飞船。
Riosays
Bobby, sounds more like a conspiracy theory…. Come on Russia? Thats like saying were jacking up oil prices so that we can fund research teams to find alternative ways of gas and energy.
albosays
Isn’t this just typical of the rigorous science applied by the green lobby… I quote: “The team believe that the accelerated release is connected to rising temperatures throughout the Arctic region.” Who are these people? Who funds them ? What leads them to the grand conclusion that “global warming” is the cause of methane release ? Who’s validated their conclusions?
典型的铺位。垃圾科学只有“可持续博客”的垃圾新闻才能与之匹敌。可悲。
Mario Farrugiasays
Ideally the methane reserves should be tapped and utilised commercially. The CO2 generated will be less potent as a greenhouse gas and the energy supplied will help ease the burden caused by the high oil prices.
Donsays
So what does this mean?
Gkbsays
Hello people of earth,
If you want to save the planet for your future generations, we must make a full commitment to act upon these hard times of Global Warming.
难道我们必须等到我们真正看到更严重的后果,世界才会完全承诺让我们伟大的星球恢复正常吗?
People blame this and blame that and yet you wake up and continue on your same regiment.
Stop waiting for the powerful to step up and tell you what to do. It is time you take this serious threat into your own hands. We all have the power to change the world, so exercise it.
If we all had a month of just spending our lives with just the nescessities, wouldn’t you think that would vastly improve our planet. Think, thats why we have brains.
10 things you can do to help in no particular order.
-First things first, exercise your right to be informed. Knowledge is power.
第二,停止污染。戒掉懒惰。
-Third, GO RECYCLE. It’s not required but should be b4 it’s too late.
-Fourth, Use alternitive energies.
-Fifth, Plant a tree.
-Six, Protest against polluting industries,factories, exc, exc. (unless you dont mind your children growing up in a chemical climate, that may lead to cancer or what not).
-Seventh, reduce the amount of plastic items you buy from the grocery store. ( Plastic stays in a landfill for a lot of years, haven’t you seen that commercial?).
-Eight, Be a leader, show people that it’s possible.
-Nine, Get off your BIG BUTT.
-第十,相信只有你自己才能一步步地改变世界。想象一下,如果你做了所有这些,你一生能做什么。
Thank You all for helping and taking the time to read this. May the green be with you..
Global Coolingsays
Wow. Some more scare tactics. I can’t believe all this bullshit that “scientists” are spewing at us at the speed of light. Unbelievable. Friggin SWEET!!!
Dustin M.says
这篇文章下面的“Right Talk”视频可能是我在一段时间内看到的最好的东西。我认识的每个科学家都告诉我,气候变暖即使不是周期性的,也是自然的。这个视频,科学证明,恰逢我已被告知和基本逻辑与理性可以告诉你如果你足够清楚地听新闻。媒体可能只报道一个故事的10%的真相;包括地点、名字和日期。其余的只是角度和旋转,以销售它可能是当时流行的任何东西。超越他们的议程,找到不能被扭曲的事实,运用常识,故事的真相就会成为焦点。相信我,一般的记者并不比一般人聪明,他们只是更擅长写作。是的,地球正在变暖,石油已经失去控制,但这并没有导致我们的毁灭。作为一个物种,我们已经变得如此娇生惯养,以至于尽管我们有能力适应环境,但我们似乎不会放弃舒适去适应环境; that is the real inconvenient truth.
Edsays
Thanks, I watched the beginning of that video. I don’t have time to watch it right now, but I will watch it later. One thing I’d like to point out is that in the beginning of the video, somebody says that co2 doesn’t cause the temperature to go up. From most the sources I’ve seen, ice core samples show a strong correlation between temperature and co2, but, the dating is not accurate enough to determine which causes which. Chemists and physicists can probably determine if co2 is in fact a greenhouse gas though, and my guess is they already have.
To me, it makes sense that burning fossil fuels would change the climate. Just because fossil fuels are made from plants and other organic matter that took these gases out of the air over millions of years. And by burning these fuels we are releasing them back into the atmosphere, and restoring the climate to what it was before these molecules were concentrated into the earth.
Jasonsays
This just goes to show you how the world we live in doesn’t care. When i posted this I was the 3rd person to do so, but if you look at Clay aikien’s gay thing it has 1000s of hits. When will people learn about the real matters but then again the earth is 3000 years old and evolution isn’t real………………………………………………………..
come on people we need to do something about this asap
or were not gonna have an earth to live on. !!!
AJsays
是的,说起来容易我们需要捕获甲烷但是你有什么想法吗我们可能会这样做?
And in regards to the video all it shows is a collection of scientists saying that man created global warming is a lie. Well guess what? Global warming is still occurring and even if we aren’t causing it (which in my opinion is a ridiculous notion considering the impact we have on our earth) at the very least we have the power to do something about it. This is a serious problem.
ressays
地球应该得到更多的关注。每个人都必须关注正在发生的环境问题,因为它会影响到人类以及那些平衡我们生态的所有生物。
Larrysays
That is why we should do something about it, It’s almost october and it’s still only getting warmer.
Preety M.S.says
Its really a serious problem… Maybe now it doesn’t seem threatening but in coming years it is going to be… The documentary movie (INCONVENIENT TRUTH – by Al Gore) really was a very informative one about Global warming and people should start taking into consideration that humanity has more important issues such as Global Warming (a slow and silent cancer) instead of focussing entirely on other matters such as terrorism etc…
Anonsays
What they should do is cloud seed the polar ice caps every year and make it snow to regrow the polar caps!
Clement A.says
Here we live in a world deficient in energy yet thousands of tonnes of clean fuel is escaping into the atmosphere to do more damage into our earth. This only shows our selfishness. Instead of spending millions of dollars trying to recreate the big-bang theory why not re-direct this technology and resources to creating inventions that would minimise the costs of fuel?
johnsays
Nice thought bobby, make it cost effective and you have a winner. A trend toward warming should make this a more productive and human friendly world. Why the sad faces? For protests try hitting the marlboro smokers or queers, everyone hates them.
Dan Jacksonsays
Right on man…Certain scientists have known about this,but the public remains ignorant…Thanks for bringing it into attention ….something must be done and knowing about it ….is a giant first step…Keep saving the planet …….Mr.Williams …i salute you dude…
Justinsays
Mr Responder, that is a good video it is refreshing to hear another view on global warming. I tend to agree with it. To me there is a lot of data supporting this theory and it’s logical.
There is a great book on this subject and about how groups, governments, and organizations will use fear to control people. Read “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton. I read it prior to Al Gore’s film and the craze that followed. So when all the histeria hit I thought it sounded a lot like what I just read a year or two before.
有意思的网站“Rightalk。”我是一个共和党人,在我看来,我觉得这个网站有点极端。If you go to the webpagehttp://www.rightalk.comthere is a message that I swear was written on a 5th grade reading and comprehension level.
Jeff G.says
I watched the whole video ‘responder,’ and I have to admit that I usually am a staunch environmentalist. However, I also am a strong advocate for addressing other global issues and am often willing to look at another point of view.
I’d like to start with the good points: the video appears well-made and well-done. Bravo for quality. I imagine some would call it invalid right from the beginning when RightTalk appears at the bottom of the screen, but of course, basic psychology has taught us about confirmation bias. So environmentalists who share Sierra Club and Greenpeace videos overlook the underlying agenda there too (because they are searching for information that supports the belief that they AlREADY hold.) It happens on both sides. This phenomenon is inevitable. I applaud the use of many experts and dissidents of the same groups who largely propel the other viewpoint. More perspectives is always better than a single, forced one. And, historically our studies of movements tend to assume absolute unification where in reality, there are dissidents of every movement.
A more general fault is that it doesn’t address future action enough. The video appears a strong condemnation of the environmental movement and a claim that ‘there is no problem.’ Still, it does a VERY narrow job of dissecting issues with African development and how MANY more factors intersect to create the human rights, labor, and environmental (I’m talking hard or substance pollution)quandaries and abuses that constantly hamper the continent. Simply put, a coal plant will not solve their problems. China has lots of those, and yet they are experiencing a world of political, social, and environmental problems. They are developing! But is the wealth shared? Is the population growth rate sustainable? Are the lives of sweatshop workers improving? I admit freely that I am no expert, but I am skeptical that mere energy development is the answer.
So, though I may rethink the theory that human industry is the sole and most significant source of global warming, it doesn’t mean that I support IRRESPONSIBLE development/growth (I still believe we need better urban planning that doesn’t irrationally favor any industry over another. I’m specifically talking about reviving the American car industry and building more highways rather than promoting more effective and efficient Mass Transit systems. And this is only one issue. I think urban planning needs a dire overhaul!) or that I support it at all. I have a major quandary with development in general and many more especially concerning governmental policies of HOW it is accomplished (consider the world financial crisis. we boomed on unfounded and irrational speculation, and now waking from that dream we’ve busted harder than ever! The market and big business NEED BIG REFORMS to ensure this doesn’t happen again and again and again.) The main problem is that earth does indeed have a limit of resources, even fundamental ones like space and water. So, eternal growth (Industry and particularly Population growth) will eventually cause scarcity and resource wars if we don’t plan sustainably. I’m not necessarily correlating industry growth and population growth. I’m admit I’m not completely sure of their relationship, but I do know that we live in a consumer economy as the globe increasingly does as well, which means that there need be an unending growth of people to buy all of the products we produce. This trend tends to push population growth. Even Industrialized nations that have noticed population decline will actively try to boost it with incentives (Australia offered big tax breaks for having children, for instance, (I’m sorry I don’t have a source for this, but I swear it can be verified in public policy records.)) Essentially, we must address population growth. That’s the bottom line. Unfortunately, I’ve heard no great ideas yet… (The philosophical equivalent of this argument is the lifeboat scenario where the boat represents earth’s limited capacity, and there are those inside and outside the life boat. It seems up to those inside to decide who can or can’t be saved from drowning on the outside, but know that not all those on the outside can be included else the boat will sink! And everyone will drown.) Some have suggested building another lifeboat. Interesting idea. But how? Mars or Moon colonies? I guess. But I’m hesitant.
另一个值得注意的类比是癌症,永恒的生长被比作人体上的癌症,有一个明显的最佳生长停止点,超过这个点的通常是肿瘤,特别是对整个身体可能或将是致命的。
I’m sorry this is so long-winded, but I truly enjoyed a different perspective from your video as much as I enjoy engaging in healthy debate about such issues. I hope these posts spark a continued discussion. I’d be open to continue it.
JONATHON ORNELASsays
你好,首先我认为诚实,我们有这么多的原因,全球变暖是代表人民和政府BECUS我认为如果我们有这么多的人WORRIE不仅是美国,但孩子会在这个世界上20 30年后,政府是如此担心我认为他们应该做点什么,我们加入的人尽可能快,可能让你觉得这是家,这将是孩子家里还有孩子回家,等等,我认为我们都应该AMKE投球的努力让家庭和容易的一个更好的地方,至于来自海底的甲烷气体的床,这里应该向您展示所有我们真的有一个大问题,因为我们现在有事情发生的环境,这是之前所没有的,或者如果他们在那里他们并非像现在这么多的问题,告诉我们如果没有什么应该做些什么AND OR JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT TO DIE AND ARE THINK IF IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU SO YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY THEN THINK OF IT FOR YOUR KIDS AND THERE KIDS SOME WERE ALONG THE LINE IT WILL HAPPEN SO DO SOMETHING AND DO IT FAST CUS IF YOU WAIT TO LONG IT MIGHT BE TO LATE
Rich Msays
大多数人似乎不知道他们的历史。“我们来自冰河时代”。简单地说,这意味着我们已经变暖了一百多万年。就像我开始说地球正在慢慢远离太阳。虽然这是真的,但太阳系一直在扩张,而且一直如此。因此,对于那些末日预言者来说,你需要停止愚蠢,用你的知识去做一些有成效的事情……白痴。
ron ssays
Global warming is a farse. It all started with Gore’s forged movie (scenes copied from the computer generated scenes from “The Day After Tomorrow”. Nobel Prize for plagerism and fraud…goes to show the state of the world we’re in. Here’s a thought…has anyone stopped to think that maybe the methane is responsible for the ice melting in the first place???? I didn’t think so, it too scientific.
Robertasays
It’s always difficult to accept something if it means we must fundamentally rethink the way we live and the things we take for granted. Having said that, “It’s time to shit or get off the pot.”
Kirbysays
全球变暖真的令人担忧!
我们大家都知道这个问题是多么严重,因此,大家都必须参与,以防止这种问题。这不是我们每个人的问题,而是生活在地球上的每个人的问题。问题来自人民,解决之道在人民之中。
上帝造我们不是为了毁灭他的创造物,而是为了尽可能地保护它。
That’s all thank You…u
Yoronsays
I’m quite tired of ignoramus trying to leave their pompous messages everywhere.
If you don’t have anything more than your misinformed view of how you think life should behave, why not keep your mouth closed?
冰冻的甲烷、苔原、永久冻土层不关心你的看法,大自然的其他部分也不关心。
相信甲烷是自由能,就等着被收集起来,这是多么的操蛋啊?well, you can guess what I think about that…
Here a methane watch…
http://www.geocities.com/leonidyurganov/MMM.htm
Here some information.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081219-methane-siberia.html
Jimmysays
What bothers me is that all the people on here saying we can change global warming and asking us to join websites like WECANSOLVEIT.org actually believe that anything they do is going to make a difference. It’s a cycle that was never meant to stop. It has happened before and it will happen again. If we got rid of every car in the world, we’d still have global warming. 1 volcano erupting anywhere on earth puts out more pollution than every man, woman and child for something like 100 years. Why don’t you spend your time and brainpower on something that will make a difference
alexis Renteriasays
methane gas helps the planet it dose not harm it many people confuse methane with Co2
Uncle Bsays
时间之沙已经改变。在“廉价石油时代”的推动下,美国的黄金时代已经结束,美国人的贪婪导致了盖层岩石和基岩的破坏,为他们自己的自流井地层进行“水力压裂”,以获取可怜的少量天然气。与此同时,中国开创了人类真正的“核时代”,大规模生产钍反应堆,这将永远“改变全球能源地图”。
A “Special Arrogance” in the U.S. wishes to take credit for the new 21st century realities. Unfortunately, greed driven debt in the U.S. has destroyed that country, Nixon marked the beginning of the end by removing the U.S. from the Gold Standard, to the current “Faith Based” – “Funny Money” printed by the Feds – a “Private” bank? Global Warming America’s fault? perhaps they contributed, but as the American dream draws to a disastrous and unsustainable end, and American peons go as ‘unemployables’ to their streets, they are in reality the victims, not the perpetrators of the magnificent scheme that would enrichen so few so quickly and leave so many Third World American peons behind, victims of the ‘Coca Cola Corpocracy’.
Kirsten @ Green Global Travelsays
What would be some of the side effects from this methane leak? Methane is a contributor to global warming however is there anything that can be done directly to offset or deal with this issue?