Aug 30, 2008

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday.

"The permafrost now has small holes. We have found elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below. It is obvious that the source is the seabed," Oerjan Gustafsson, the Swedish leader of the International Siberian Shelf Study, told the newspaper.

The tests were carried out in the Laptev and east Siberian seas and used much more precise measuring equipment than previous studies, he said.

Methane is more than 20 times more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping solar heat.

Scientists fear that global warming may cause Siberia's permafrost to thaw and thereby release vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere. The effects of global warming are already most visible in the Arctic region.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080830/sc_afp/swedenrussiaclimatewarmingmethane;_ylt=Ao_rxfkruvmq7nfQLnzCN9hpl88F

statement that we have about 7 years left to put a cap on things.

Russia and the nordics all have peat bogs of significant size (UK too);
and these release methane at an increased rate like with the permafrost as
temperatures increase and/or rainfall becomes less consistent... this
methane be the tipping point accelerator... No cap can be put on things,
it is already spiralling out of control and we're just fucked.

It's been a nice planet back in the good old days in atlantis, in egypt,
india, china and the great civilizations before the population exploded
in to a toxic nightmare of an earth so polluted, few people realize how
different the sky colour used to be... how different the light - the
profundity of the silence ... and our modern shithole planet is no
replacement for what was once a garden of eden.

And so, the population burns on dante's earth with lucifer, praying
for an early death to release themselves from the slavery of working
every waking hour to murder people to steal their stuff to keep the
system of slavery (our way of life) progressing.

Fuck it, the sooner the economy freezes over under a mile of ice the better.