{"id":6517,"date":"2020-10-15T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:32:13","slug":"bubbles-in-the-sea-craters-in-earth-spark-new-methane-worries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles in the Sea, Craters in Earth Spark New Methane Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The headline in Nature World News<\/em> on Tuesday was not subtle.<\/p>\n

‘We’re F’d,’ it stated caustically.<\/p>\n

The subject? Methane plumes rising from the seabed witnessed by ocean researchers\u00a0 in the Arctic in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Seen by a team of international scientists led by Professor \u00d6rjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University travelling in the Eastern Siberian Arctic Ocean, the release of methane has long been feared by climatologists who suggest that a warming planet could trigger a mass melting of what are called methane hydrates\u2014a frozen form of potent greenhouse gas methane trapped in permafrost or beneath the ocean floor.<\/p>\n

As the article in the NWN<\/em> notes, the observations by Gustafsson’s team\u2014measured by sophisticated sensor equipment on their ship\u2014were surprising “not because the plumes were unexpected, but because of their concentration.”<\/p>\n

Writing on his own blog, Gustaffson writes that he and his fellow researchers are assessing “these methane releases in greater detail than ever before to substantially improve our collective understanding of the methane sources and the functioning of the system. This is information that is crucial if we are to be able to provide scientific estimations of how these methane releases may develop in the future.”<\/p>\n

Referred to as a “ticking time bomb” by some who study the subject, methane has a much more powerful global warming effect than carbon and the evidence continues to mount that areas which hold huge deposits of the compound are becoming increasingly unstable.<\/p>\n

Though innocuous-looking, this short video taken by the crew shows methane rising in the ocean:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The recent discovery of strange craters in northern Russia has also entered the scientific debate about the dangers of methane, with scientists suggesting that melting permafrost and a enormous release of the gas could be the culprit.<\/p>\n

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As the journal Nature<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

Speaking with Channel 3 News<\/em> in New Zealand, applied sciences professor Allan Blackman described what happened with the crater in Yamal this way: “An enormous great burst, bubble, whatever you want to call it, of methane just came up and blew a hole in the surface of the Earth.”<\/p>\n

“If the permafrost starts melting and the trapped methane is getting released,” Blackman continued, “then it could be a very great problem for climate change.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, however, Jason Box\u2014the scientist who last week tweeted the original phrase, “If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re f’d.”\u2014has issued caution about equating the strange craters in Yamal with the observations seen in the East Arctic Siberian Ocean.<\/p>\n

“I never connected the mysterious Siberian holes to anything,” Box tweeted after some reporting equated the two. And later added, “I have no idea about the holes.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The headline in Nature World News on Tuesday was not subtle. ‘We’re F’d,’ it stated caustically. The subject? Methane plumes rising from the seabed witnessed by ocean researchers\u00a0 in the Arctic in recent weeks. Seen by a team of international scientists led by Professor \u00d6rjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University travelling in the Eastern Siberian Arctic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}