The real (hidden) danger of melting ice caps and global climate change

[txlibdem]

Watch this video but don't have a mouthful of water when you do:
"Fire and Ice: Permafrost Melt Spews Combustible Methane"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1liqk9UQNAQ&feature=related

Methane is something like 20 times worse than CO2 and the problem just isn't in the Arctic. Russia and the former Soviet Union is facing climate change and the methane is bubbling out as the permafrost is melting:
"Russian Permafrost Melt - BBC"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKyRHDFKEXQ&feature=feedu

:scared:

[aquart]

1. I thought we had something that eats methane?

[txlibdem]

2. A fuel cell? Those are far too expensive for anyone to afford

Did you mean an organism? Too tired to look it up; perhaps in the morning.

[aquart]

3. Yeah. A hungry organism.

So when the rest of us die, something will be happy and well fed.

[txlibdem]

4. Have to research that another time

too sleepy. must put keyboard away now...

[jpak]

6. There is no way to capture methane emissions from permafrost - fuel cell or no fuel cell

There are methnotrophic bacteria in permafrost - but rates of emissions ebullition far exceed any conceivable in situ microbial oxidation rates.

[HereSince1628]

5. There are methanotrophic bacteria (methane eating)

Here is a review article....http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/187/13/4303

[aquart]

9. Yeah. Them.

[OnlinePoker]

7. Just to put my oar in...

...anything above the Arctic Circle would be considered the Arctic, including northern Russia.

[hootinholler]

8. I remember reading reports of methane bubbling up in lakes in Alaska

This has gotten no real attention in the media.

-Hoot

[hatrack]

11. Also a GRL article I posted a while back? About subsea pingoes bubbling methane from their tops . .

That didn't get much attention either.

Still, I'm sure that there's a market mechanism out there to make them stop emitting methane, or to make CO2 stop absorbing heat from longwave radiation. You just KNOW Goldman Sachs is working night and day on it!

:silly:

[BeFree]

10. Old news

That was the story ten years ago.

Are you just now becoming aware?

[pscot]

12. This is about a year old

And of course it doesn't solve the problem of Arctic methane. If anything, it adds to it.

http://www.greenmuze.com/climate/energy/2413-chinas-burning-ice-.html