Directions:
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium - low heat / Add sage leaves and cook, stirring
often until butter begins to brown and the sage gives off a nutty, toasty aroma, 3 to 4 minutes / When the butter is brown and the sage is crispy and literally
melts in your mouth, remove from the heat / At this
point, some people give it a few squirts of cold lemon juice for extra flavor and to stop the cooking / Add lightly cooked peas, asparagus, rapini, literally any tender fresh vegetable, prosciutto, parmesan cheese, chopped herbs, whatever you have on hand.
RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp
melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what
point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane
melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what
point would huge amounts of extra methane start
melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane
melt, or at what
point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane
melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp
melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping
point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping
points, i.e. permafrost
melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping
points, such as the
melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the
melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping
points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate
often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?