Sentences with phrase «to trap methane»

Although the hole is yet to be confirmed, scientists worry that the release of trapped methane could threaten local industry and communities.

Water molecules trap methane gas in an icy cage under high pressure and cold temperatures.

So far the CDM board has approved 493 projects ranging from trapping methane from a dump in Bolivia to a geothermal scheme in Indonesia.

Once formed by either serpentinization or microbes, methane could be stored as a stable clathrate hydrate — a chemical structure that traps methane molecules like animals in a cage — for later release to the atmosphere, perhaps by gradual outgassing through cracks and fissures or by episodic bursts triggered by volcanism.

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.

A cagelike structure of solidified water traps methane within it.

Either scenario is surprising, since the frozen ground usually traps methane.

However, many of the sources along the continental slope lie at cold depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.

Recent numerical simulations suggested the lake formation is due to the cold - trapped methane accumulated in the polar region, and predicted prominent clouds will form within about two (Earth) years while lake levels will rise over the next fifteen years due to the seasonally varying solar radiation on Titan.

As temperatures rise, permafrost thaws, unleashing trapped methane into the atmosphere and leading to more warming.

Others are a-biological, such as ocean degassing from the lower solubility of CO2 in warm versus cool water and also melting of methane clathrates (ice with trapped methane, which is more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Hubberten speculates that a thick layer of ice on top of the soil at the Yamal crater site trapped methane released by thawing permafrost.

While it's widely believed that heat - trapping methane significantly contributed to our planet's survival a billion years ago, a new study showed that it couldn't have done so because of its limited quantity.

If the permafrost melts, prodigious amounts of trapped methane gas will burp out of the once frozen ground.

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

Significant leaks of heat - trapping methane from natural gas production sites would erase any climate advantage the fuel offers.

They also consume a lot of space, trap methane emissions and create a fire risk — and tire fires are difficult to extinguish.

Under such conditions, water molecules assemble into icelike crystal structures that trap methane.

Once the bubbles are formed, he theorized, the tiny fibers that pass through the pigs» digestive systems strengthen them, leading to more foam and trapping the methane that naturally develops.

So, the thinning East Siberian Arctic ice shelf is sitting on top of billions of tonnes of trapped methane, which...

Trapped methane could be evidence of microbial life — ongoing or long ago — below the surface.

This glowing ledge showed that the mound contained methane hydrate, a lattice of frozen water that traps methane gas molecules within its icy cages.

They ran the data through a mathematical model to account for mountains and valleys, which can trap methane.

That includes the discovery that surface waters in the open Arctic Ocean are releasing heat - trapping methane gas into the atmosphere at a «significant» rate as the region's sea ice recedes, Wofsy said.

Models of the surface environment using Pluto and Charon's known orbit around the Sun demonstrate that Charon's north pole has experienced long periods of continuous extremely low temperatures, cold enough to trap methane that has escaped from Pluto's atmosphere.

This may seem like splitting hairs since I am aware that the age of the plant material & trapped methane in the permafrost often far older than the halflife of Carbon 14.

Such emissions contribute to harmful local air pollution and — because the main constituent of natural gas is heat - trapping methane — global warming.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

Updated, 12:47 p.m. On another Arctic front, the notion that a huge outburst of heat - trapping methane is nigh from the seabed off Siberia, here's an update:

More on the Potential Risk of Methane Bubbling From the Siberian Seafloor Further reinforcement of the notion that while permafrost melting is certainly a cause for concern due to the global warming potential of trapped methane, at least where the Siberian seafloor is concerned, well, not so much.

Chris Mooney digs in on the assumptions in a paper asserting that warming Arctic waters could devastate the world economy by unleashing a great outburst of heat - trapping methane:

It may bring up heat - trapping methane from the seafloor as well, adding yet another boost to an already - warming planet.

One of the greatest fears is that with the disappearance of the Arctic sea - ice in summer, and rapidly rising temperatures across the entire region, which are already melting the Siberian permafrost, the trapped methane could be suddenly released into the atmosphere leading to rapid and severe climate change.

It is important to understand the size of the reservoir — the amount of trapped methane that potentially could be released — as well as the processes that have kept it «trapped» and those that control the release.

But the downside of those opportunities is the risk that the current pace of climate change could be sped up dramatically by the release of long - trapped methane gas in the region's permafrost — a risk to which a new study has attached an eye - popping price tag of $ 60 trillion in the next several decades, on top of previous estimates.

Joe Romm, Climate Progress: Up To A Million Abandoned Wells In Pennsylvania Spew Heat - Trapping Methane

That's when your real troubles begin because then all that trapped methane will be released — and methane is around 34 times as deadly a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide...

As sea levels rose at the end of the ice age, the shelf was once again covered by relatively warm ocean water, thawing the permafrost and releasing the trapped methane... In the short - term... methane has a global warming potential 86 times that of carbon dioxide.»

CREDIT: Shutterstock Satellite observations of huge oil and gas basins in East Texas and North Dakota confirm staggering 9 and 10 percent leakage rates of heat - trapping methane.