Sentences with phrase «oceans releases trapped»

Release of methane hydrates has previously been suggested as a mechanism to drive runaway greenhouse events, as warming oceans releases trapped methane that causes further warming and releases more methane.

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Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region's snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study.

Findings include a discovery that surface waters in the open Arctic Ocean release heat - trapping methane gas into the atmosphere at a «significant» rate

But Exxon's researchers wanted to understand how exactly CO2 behaved in the oceans — and whether after trapping the gas, the seas would eventually release it into the atmosphere.

«More heat is trapped in the upper layers of the ocean, where it can be easily released back into the atmosphere,» Park said.

A significant release of methane due to melting of the vast deposits trapped by permafrost and clathrate in the Arctic would result in massive loss of oxygen, particularly in the Arctic ocean but also in the atmosphere.

Scientists say the accumulation of heat in the oceans is the strongest evidence of how fast Earth is warming due to heat - trapping gases released by the burning of fossil fuels.

There are also concerns that oceans, which currently absorb more than 90 percent of the extra heat being trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions, could eventually release some of that back to the surface, speeding up the surface temperature rise.

• Significantly, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, ESAS, has up to 1000 Gt of methane reserves, and it is highly believable that 1 % of this (or up to 10 Gt) is in the form of free gas trapped underneath the currently degrading subsea permafrost cap, which could be released within the next few decades by a combination of increasing Arctic Ocean water temperatures, increased storm activity, and possible increases in seismic activity.

An increased concentration of methane release, Gustafsson suspects, may be coming from collapsing «methane hydrates» — pockets of the gas that were once trapped in frozen water on the ocean floor.

A significant release of methane due to melting of the vast deposits trapped by permafrost and clathrate in the Arctic would result in massive loss of oxygen, particularly in the Arctic ocean but also in the atmosphere.

James Hansen, adjunct professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and former Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies claims the melting ice could lead to the point where ocean floor warming triggers massive release of methane hydrate, i.e., methane molecules trapped in ice crystals, which would become a «tipping point.»

It seems obvious that with the enormous energy buffer (let me not fall into the trap you excoriate of using vague words — I'll define «enormous» as circa «1000 times that of the atmosphere») provided by the oceans then it would be trivial to demonstrate that heat may be sequestered or released on long time scales which would entirely refute the results of your experiments.

In the ocean, the methane lies ready for release in larger amounts, trapped by the permafrost.

More evidence is emerging that methane previously trapped in the permafrost below the Arctic sea is starting to be released into the oceans and potentially into the atmosphere.

An increased concentration of methane release, Gustafsson suspects, may be coming from collapsing «methane hydrates» - pockets of the gas that were once trapped in frozen water on the ocean floor.

Once they drain in summer, the sudden release of fresh - water stratifies the very surface water which then traps more heat at the surface (takes more work by the wind to mix it down against the ocean density gradient) which then leads to fast melting of what's left of the drained pond.