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.
古斯塔夫松继续报告说:“传统的想法是,西伯利亚大陆架海底沉积物上的永久冻土‘盖’应该盖住并固定住大量浅层甲烷沉积物。”然而,在数千平方英里的北极海床上进行的广泛研究显示,越来越多的证据表明“永久冻土层的盖子开始穿孔,从而泄漏甲烷”。”
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respondersays
I read these Global Warming articles and keep wondering why this video with many scientist references and facts is never talked about…http://www.rightalk.com/asx/ggws.asx....Just a healthy counterpoint for global warming supporters, comment on it all you want, just give it a chance and watch it before passing judgement…
tanasa casays
and our governors still think about what land to exploit for wood and what industrial new openings can be settled in undeveloped countries . .. . . ….
– they verbal fight each other ( and not only ) ,
– they fight against others for the ” CHAIR ” (it doesn’t matter what chair) ,
– they spend enormous amounts of money on campaigNs ,
– they argue and stand proud with their justice and truth ,
as the place where we all belong , the earth struggles to resist and survive
as the place that holds us all can’t do it for long keeping it this way
I HOPE I AM WRONG , yet i got a feeling that if they don’t let go the petrol and the wood with all the money and running economy which that affects ,
they won’t have where to put the chairs they’re fighting for
hope i’m wrong , a fabulous day to y’all !
Bobby B.says
In that case, don’t we need to find a way to capture the methane that is bubbling up, process it into the various natural gases, sell those gases as combustible fuels, burn the fuels, and release CO2 as a by-product of combustion? That could reduce the effects by a factor of 20. Maybe that’s why Russia has laid claim to the energy reserves in the Arctic.
frank blagdansays
in the spirit of all the ecological and economic doom and gloom.i recall a conversation i once had with an air force colonel.i asked him if there were really extrarestrials out there and if there were would they help the human race if we were on the brink of extinction.his reply went something like this .space men nay but if their were they just be sittin out there watchin a slow burn.
leesays
What a butch of bull crap.
WHO CARESsays
Screw yahoo for greenwashing the masses
Big Bsays
I totally agree with the video. I believe the earth is warming, but not due to man made CO2.
Commentersays
Let’s figure out how to harness this plentiful source of potential energy!
Dallin Wsays
最后,关于全球变暖的丑陋真相,我们对此无能为力!不管我们愿不愿意,地球都会变暖。要么这样,要么我们可以尝试找到一种方法来“捕获正在冒出来的甲烷”。你可以争论我们是否对它产生了影响,但最终,我们必须适应。
Jorden Woodssays
There is no debate on global warming — it is a fact. Actually there is not a single peer-reviewed article written in the last 5 years that does not support the fact that global warming exists and will create mass devastation on a global scale if left unchecked. As a result, there is no point wasting time watching propaganda. One might as well watch movies developed on why the world is flat or 6,000 years old. What we need to do is figure out what to do to mitigate GW and cope with it. Please joinhttp://www.wecansolveit.orgtoday.
jerrysays
The thing that everyone is forgeting is that methane gas is actually used by the ozone layer to help rebuild it and stabilize itself there is nothing wrong with methane gas and it does not hurt our ecosystem.
Justinsays
This is what we get for someone else’s mistakes, more and more trouble for future generations, like me! When I’m in my 40s or 50s, all of today’s teens and children will be suffering from all the global warming causes! We need to do something about global warming! Stop worrying so much about just one subject, hey, if people are worried about money, people, economy, etc. then if global warming makes us go extinct, or practically kills us, then there won’t be a world at all to make anything! live anything! do anything! WE NEED TO SAVE OUR PLANET! IT’S OUR ONLY HOME!!!
and about this article…exactlly what Bobby B. said, scientists should be figuring out a way to get the methane out! sure it may cost a couple thousand, ten, or hundred thousand dollars, and maybe take up a couple pounds of water, but we’ve spent billions of dollors on the economy and emergencies like that! Do those people not care about their children’s future!?! WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!!!
SAVE THE OCEAN! SAVE THE PLANET!!! SAVE OURSELVES!!!!!
Kimsays
WE need Sarah
jennifer from pittsburghsays
Yes, let’s capture this bubbling gas, somehow, and make money off it. Are you a total tool? Do you know how the vast the Arctic Sea is and how much methane is being released? By the time anything could be put in place to gather and pipeline anything, we’re already screwed. We’re beyond the tipping point. We’ve tipped. Depending on where you live and how you’ve prepared, you might just be screwed.
Ericsays
Not surprising really. Disturbing none the less.
Heathersays
I agree with Bobby B… When need to think of ways to captures this natural source of methane, and convert it into fuel. This in itself would help with more then one issue we are facing.
Oh Pleasesays
i watched your whole video
its pure bullshit
please realize what your doing before the waters heat up and kill all life in the ocean, all the water dries out, all the bees die so we have no food, teh air becomes unbreathable, and no one can eat icecream
jim alexanderson highland in.says
那又怎样?把它点燃,我们也会有南极光。
is it more gas than cow farts?
LolzCAtzsays
global warming makes me sad =(
jim alexanderson highland in.says
make a factory there that bottles it and fills containers
Kristinesays
we r all gonna die!!!!!!
A twelve year old kid in Americasays
I say this world is dieing slowly the U.S. has changed since the Founding Fathers. We try to find ways to save this planet, but it’s starting to just plainly die. Think about it.
BRADsays
WOW! WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE KILLED BY A GIANT FART! 8)
Rubysays
好主意,鲍比——我们可以派莎拉·佩林的丈夫乘摩托艇,拿着烧杯在北冰洋上嗡嗡作响,当所有的甲烷气泡爆裂时,我们可以把它们都抓起来!我们会发财!
art wsays
this is really a bunch of CRAP. We cannot realistically believe that man can harm this planet, even if we set out to do so. It has been through many changes in the BILLLIONS of years it has been here and changes will continue with or without us. It’s all about the money, everything “GREEN” costs us more and nothing has changed due to these efforts. In fact, in the last two years, the earth has COOLED and may continue to do so due to inactivity of sun spots. We can’t blame human activity for that, can we? What a pile of tripe!
Lookersays
Are those chemtrails I see in the background of that ice berg? Are they spraying up there, as they are over the rest of the world? And what might that have to do with global warming? How about everything to do with it?
joeysays
We should stop burning fossil fuels all together. It ruins the atmosphere and destroys the environment. I look at Earth as a living organism. It is after all ‘Mother Earth’. And much like every living creature it has enough poison within its body, if ingested to destroy itself. Say your appendix were to burst. You would get sick, and possibly die. But your body has places to absorb and dissolve all of these toxins that we intake on a daily basis.
地球也不例外。土壤和水作为屏障和净化器保持这些毒素的稳定和控制。当我们人类开采石油并燃烧燃料时,它会被地球吸收,被空气、土地、水过滤,并破坏保护我们免受太空伤害的臭氧层。我们是这个美丽灯塔上的毒瘤,我们需要停止表现得像它一样。不要成为癌症患者。只有当你是人的时候,你才是人。-是我说的
dakeviniisays
This story is leaky. “Permafrost lid”? The arctic ice breaks and floats every summer, thus leaking the methane trapped. These are not vast reservoirs of trapped methane. They are products soil bacteria on the ocean floor. The large trapped reservoirs of gas trapped are trapped by the enormous pressure exerted by the water above them. As much as we would like to think the entire ocean is warming this observed trend is limited to the surface. Water’s heat capacity makes it an excellent insulator thus past the first 30 meters of surface water very little if any warming occurs,go a couple of hundred meters and your at insane pressures and freezing water temps all are adequate for trapping gasses. This is one of the main principles behind creating CO2 reclamation trenches in the ocean. Once again shoty science by sensational news writers.
C. S.says
Funny – if science came out tomorrow with videos claiming that SUVs would increase sperm count or that consuming your weight in pork and cheese daily was now healthy I doubt you would be arguing or looking for alternative “studies” done by “equally qualified” people. You’d go out and buy yourself two more just like the one in your driveway, then sit down and consume an entire hog with cheddar sauce. Because it’s something that threatens your modern comfort you balk. Well, I suppose there are more selfish things than searching desperately for an excuse to keep doing exactly as you please at the expense of everyone else on the planet- I just haven’t seen any.
JON HENRYsays
“COME ON PEOPLE” This is something that has been going on for years. We have just not had the right resources or money/technology to find these “methane pockets” we need to put more money into research or else we are all ucfaded. We sit here and speculate all these theories without even having enough money or resources to support them. Until we get somebody in office that has any idea how things work (and will support such research financially) we are doomed. VOTE OBAMA IF YOU CARE.
Jvaksays
-IF- this is true, then doesn’t it support the idea that GW may not be a result of human interference? Think about it, methane slowly rising accelerating the conditions for more methane to rise. It seems that these effects are already in motion, and worry if you will, but preventative measures should not be our concern. We should be figuring out what we are going to do if this indeed affects our climate.
Kevinsays
这不是新闻!阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学长期以来一直在研究这个问题。根据UAF的一项研究,该地区水合甲烷中的碳含量可能比世界上所有煤炭和石油储量的总和还要多!我想这就是为什么俄罗斯人对北极大部分地区感兴趣的原因。
I always love it someone discovers something others have known for years! By the way global warming has been going on since the last ice age, long before Al Gore discovered it and long before internal combustion engines.
Lusays
回复者1号,如果你的链接不叫“正确的谈话”,你会更可信。
I suggest you find more credible sources rather than conservative blog websites. Let’s face it, the main reason why conservatives don’t believe in climate change is because they think it’s a liberal pet peeve.
chancesays
why not find a way to burn it off instead of it releasing into the atmosphere? pipe it out and burn it off…
Bullwinkle J. Moosesays
Are there just too many people on this planet? Couldn’t anyone anywhere have thought that his or her genetic code was dysfunctional, especially when the primary intent was the survival of its identity?
George G.says
I aggree with Bobby’s comment. Isn’t there a way for us to capture the gas and use as combustible fuels. With the advancement of our technology we should have the resources to accomplish that task. In matter of fact with all the bad news throughout the world we need some good news.
Mr. Obvioussays
我对(所谓的)“全球变暖”的一个问题是……除非海水冰随着冰山融化而膨胀(据报道会导致海平面上升),否则同样的逻辑难道不会要求一杯冰水最终会随着冰山融化而溢出吗?
anthony s.says
using methane as an alternative fuel is not as great as it sounds because the bi-product from it will increase the temperature of the earths atmosphere 20* faster than CO2.
Tadeosays
Why not use it !!!!!
Athena02116says
答:谢谢你发布那个链接。有太多的人不相信媒体/政客向我们平民灌输的东西,就我而言,我不相信全球变暖的恐慌……事实上,我足够大,记得全球冻结的恐慌。HA
spikesays
这些气体的释放会导致全球气温进一步上升,会产生多米诺骨牌效应吗?需要进一步教育人们如何使用释放有害气体的消耗品和非消耗品,仍在生产这些产品的公司应该被召回。在热带地区,人们开始感觉到海平面的上升。
jaysays
In response to the first commenter about the documentary The Global Warming Swindle as seen on rightalk.com. You simply need to google this movie and the featured scientists to find out that this movie is a piece of propaganda. Read the Wikipedia entries for this movie and featured scientists, the movie is very misleading.
karinasays
what else is new…this world is just a time clock…it can only take some much…lesson is ..live life to the fullest daily enjoy cuz its not forever
Eschol Tarrantsays
自地球形成以来,甲烷气体一直在不规律地泄漏。从我们的科学末日预言者那里传来一些积极的消息怎么样?如果我现在是一个10岁的孩子,我可能会耸耸肩,一枪崩了自己的脑袋。我的意思是,如果不是曼哈顿那么大的小行星,全球变暖或者伊斯兰圣战对西方文明的攻击,那么就等着太阳产生超级新星,让我们瞬间蒸发吧。
You guys should be writing science fiction books, not this garbage. Dean Koontz said it best,”there is more truth in fiction than there is in science.”
dennissays
Very interesting video. But I think the polical timing of this video is not good. When media gets a hold of a canidate that doesn’t believe in Global warming he/she is instantly a puppet of Big Oil industries.
This video will come to light after the election is complete or when the amount of sun spots is reduced
Lemon Lennysays
所以基本上就是把上帝给我们的柠檬做成香甜可口的燃料味柠檬水。如果存在这样一个机械系统,在释放气体的区域收集气体,这将是甜蜜的,但这可能会超出我们的咀嚼能力。考虑到制造这样的平台所需的研发费用和建造它们所需的时间,似乎不太可能及时建造这样的收割机来利用丰富的燃料来源。也就是说,在它在臭氧层上撕开一个洞之前,它会吗?这个星球上的生命会排放大量的二氧化碳。我们要问的是,有多少甲烷气体是大量的甲烷气体,在我们和其他一切便便之间,我们排放了很多甲烷气体。可以说是大量的。我们应该做点什么吗?当然,可能很快。我们能做点什么吗? Probably, but that depends on how many people still think this stuff is a hoax.
也许在大型强子对撞机、全球变暖和经济崩溃/转型之间,玛雅人的oh-****日期将是真实的。我只是寄希望于机器恐龙(时代战争中的古代囚犯)从希格斯玻色子应该存在的时间洞里跳出来。机器人恐龙才是粒子有质量的真正原因!
JAMESsays
i guess in this case, we need to focus on how to prevent that methane from going up.. i am concerned about the human race and race after us.. we should consider this as our top priority.. we can still do something, we just have to figure this out.. i do not know more about in scientific explanation but, u can translate it into English.. =)
William Gsays
Well…I hope its warm in hell.
Nicksays
@ Bobby B. thats an intelligent point but then again, couldnt we find a more efficient way of breaking down the methane into something other than a fuel source?
thereby reducing the CO2 released into the air to just the amount given off by factories that will break it down.
然后我们用那个12岁孩子的想法,研究它,改进到太阳能是主要能源的一点,或者我们可以使用一个人的想法,像风车一样的物体,在更高的空气中,所以它得到更大的阵风,这等于产生更多的能量,我认为只有几个问题需要解决。
而且我认为大多数汽车的效率是15%,如果你问我,这是可怕的,我们不应该有机械工程师和化学工程师来解决这个问题吗?
K wolffsays
Why does Sarah Palin not talk more of gobal warming that is taking place in Alaska? I know that she is a republician and most are for the oil companies but come on your there governer! Unless maybe gobal warming is a lie?