>>Methane is a highly potent and insidious greenhouse gas that is continuing to surprise scientists with not just where it can come from, but the quantities with which it is leaking into the atmosphere. The latest, and certainly most dramatic, example comes via a Russian expedition through the East Siberian Sea, where scientists encountered fountains of methane bubbles in concentrations never seen before.

While there isn’t as much methane in the atmosphere as there is carbon dioxide, it is around 28 times better at trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, making it a very effective greenhouse gas.

Scientists visiting outposts in the Canadian Arctic earlier in the year were shocked to find permafrost thawing out 70 years earlier than predicted. As reported by The Guardian at the time, they described it as a sign the climate is currently warmer than any time in the last “5,000 or more years,” and a “canary in the coalmine.”<<

https://newatlas.com/environment/powerful-methane-fountains-siberian-sea/

not good, remember reading about this way way back in NS

PermeateFree said:

>>Methane is a highly potent and insidious greenhouse gas that is continuing to surprise scientists with not just where it can come from, but the quantities with which it is leaking into the atmosphere. The latest, and certainly most dramatic, example comes via a Russian expedition through the East Siberian Sea, where scientists encountered fountains of methane bubbles in concentrations never seen before.

While there isn’t as much methane in the atmosphere as there is carbon dioxide, it is around 28 times better at trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, making it a very effective greenhouse gas.

Scientists visiting outposts in the Canadian Arctic earlier in the year were shocked to find permafrost thawing out 70 years earlier than predicted. As reported by The Guardian at the time, they described it as a sign the climate is currently warmer than any time in the last “5,000 or more years,” and a “canary in the coalmine.”<<

https://newatlas.com/environment/powerful-methane-fountains-siberian-sea/

I like permafrost melting. You can’t plant forests on permafrost.

The methane released my permafrost melting is a once only thing. But when forests grow where permafrost used to be then they soak up carbon dioxide for ever.

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Methane is a highly potent and insidious greenhouse gas that is continuing to surprise scientists with not just where it can come from, but the quantities with which it is leaking into the atmosphere. The latest, and certainly most dramatic, example comes via a Russian expedition through the East Siberian Sea, where scientists encountered fountains of methane bubbles in concentrations never seen before.

While there isn’t as much methane in the atmosphere as there is carbon dioxide, it is around 28 times better at trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, making it a very effective greenhouse gas.

Scientists visiting outposts in the Canadian Arctic earlier in the year were shocked to find permafrost thawing out 70 years earlier than predicted. As reported by The Guardian at the time, they described it as a sign the climate is currently warmer than any time in the last “5,000 or more years,” and a “canary in the coalmine.”<<

https://newatlas.com/environment/powerful-methane-fountains-siberian-sea/

I like permafrost melting. You can’t plant forests on permafrost.

The methane released my permafrost melting is a once only thing. But when forests grow where permafrost used to be then they soak up carbon dioxide for ever.

As a matter of interest, do you live on this planet?