Climate-Change 'Time Bomb' About to Go Off

Cybergal · Sep 30, 2008

Climate-Change 'Time Bomb' About to Go Off
9/30/08

There's a ticking time bomb underneath the oceans, and it's about to go off, some scientists say.
A Russian research ship trawling the Arctic off Siberia's northeastern coast has found huge amounts of methane bubbling up from the seafloor, according to reports in London's Independent newspaper and the Canadian Press wire service.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, trapping 20 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. While there's little of it in the atmosphere, there are gigantic frozen deposits of it, called methane clathrates, trapped in rocks in seabeds all over the world.
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Ronnocomot · Sep 30, 2008

I saw something on Discovery Channel about this years ago. Methane pours out of lakes in the Arctic.

The researchers had to put on breathing gear to get near the water.

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