Sentences with phrase «like thawing of permafrosts»

So we recently published some work looking at some previously unrepresented effects, like thawing of permafrosts, methane from the wetlands, aerosol interactions.

Not exact matches

Methane release from pingo - like features across the South Kara Sea shelf, an area of thawing offshore permafrost

The cycle works like this: Thawing permafrost dumps tons of previously frozen organic material into lake bottoms, producing methane.

Though the current outbreak is happening during an unusual period of extreme warmth, Romanovsky says that, «if it gets warmer in the future, and it seems like it will, the thawing permafrost could be massive.»

Fires the likes of which we have never seen in the far north as the permafrost burns and methane leaks and explodes from the thawing earth.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

Such temperatures begin to threaten key climate impacts like permafrost thaw, 3 - 4 meters of sea - level rise from West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, risk of up to 80 percent mountain glacier loss, complete Arctic sea ice loss during summer, and 6 - 7 meters of sea level rise from Greenland melt.

Among the effects could be more frequent, extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise from icecap melting, breakdown of the marine food chain and worst of all, feedback effects like large releases of methane from thawing permafrost, or large scale dieback of forests.

Yes, large releases of methane from thawing permafrost and undersea deposits could hasten global warming during a relatively short period — like, say, for example, the next five to ten years.

The commentary speculates methane hydrates, ice - like substances where the gas is stored in the East Siberian Arctic shelf (among other places), could unleash a 50 gigatonne «pulse» of methane between 2015 - 2025 (leading to an atmospheric concentration six times current levels) as undersea permafrost thaws.