Sentences with phrase «methane time bomb»

The Arctic methane time bomb is bigger than scientists once thought, according to a new study.

So little data is available from the Arctic Ocean that no scientists dare say with certainty whether the world is watching the fuse being lit on a marine methane time bomb.

Now come fears of a methane time bomb, part two, this one bursting from the sea floor of the shallow Arctic continental shelf.

In recent years, climate scientists have been concerned about a so - called «methane time bomb» on land, which would be detonated when warming Arctic temperatures melt permafrost and cause frozen vegetation in peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.

Gary Houser, an environmental writer and producer of a documentary that's being made about Arctic methane, sent a rebuttal of my initial post in this string, «Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas — Apocalypse Not.»

Read more of the Dot Earth piece to get a more measured reading of the situation: Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas - Apocalypse Not

Latest deflation of Arctic methane time bomb fears via @chriscmooney @motherjones / / t.co / 4yYemD8xSR More: / / t.co / 55tN48E4wv

(Note the «Methane Time Bomb» headline from the same British paper in 2008.

But read this summary of the paper from the American Geophysical Union, which publishes the journal, and see if you feel reassured that the «methane time bomb» there is safe for a long time to come:

Joe Davis's valuable daily digest of environmental coverage for the Society of Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf off Siberia.

But the globe is cooling so the fuse on any purported «methane time bomb» is lengthening.

But he also noted that there is no evidence of what some have described as a «methane time bomb» waiting to be triggered — some great unleashing leading, in tipping - point fashion, toward unstoppable outcomes.

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Proponents of the so - called «methane time bomb» theory note the crumbling of glaciers in past eras destabilized methane hydrates, creating «blowouts.»

Thawing permafrost, methane time bombs in the Arctic, rapidly melting ice from the North Pole to Greenland impacting albedo, sparking more warming.

So the next time you see a «science stunner» about Arctic methane time bombs, reach out to a couple of scientists working on this gas before you run to the ramparts.

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Since there are two main topics (Advocacy and Methane bombs) buzzing around the blogo - twitter - sphere this week, perhaps those are our starters for ten... (Feel free to populate the comments with links to various commentaries — we will chime in as we find time).

The horrific consequence would be the inevitable explosion of the Earth's time bombs in terms of the release of subsea methane into the atmosphere and the eruption of volcanoes.

Then, the ticking time bomb of massive methane release accelerates the ticking process, like a doomsday clock on the public square that spins ever faster as beads of sweat on the mayor's forehead belie his adamant denial of human - caused global warming.

Methane released from the arctic ocean is almost a time bomb waiting to go off.

If there is a «ticking time bomb» on our planet that could lead to a global warming so rapid and sudden that we would have no way of dealing with it, it's methane.

So if a methane «time bomb» actually exists in the ocean, as some news stories would have you believe, it seems fairly clear that it hasn't gone off yet.

Dorsi Diaz This post is a collection of excerpts from interviews with three experts on the methane crisis — the ticking time bomb.

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