Sentences with phrase «methane hydrate science»

The objective of the program is to fund research that significantly advances the current state of knowledge or technology with respect to methane hydrate science.

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-- and if at some time in the future there is a major adjustment to GCMs modelling like plugging in a new science based assumption that x warming will actually / or has triggered negative feedbacks like ASI area / piomass loss, or methane hydrates emissions inott eh atmosphere versus the present GCMs that such changes in the GCMs be noted in these Summary Key data Updates.

Its chapters address: excess nitrogen in the environment; combating (re) emerging infectious diseases; marine fish and shellfish farming; illegal wildlife trade; methane hydrates; realizing the potential of citizen science; air pollution; plastic debris in the ocean; securing soil carbon benefits; and rapid change in the Arctic.

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

In the 2008 U.S. government (Climate Change Science Program) assessment on abrupt climate change, the authors stress the uncertainty of the size of the methane «hydrate reservoir» but say a dramatic abrupt release appears «very unlikely».