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Here's a bit of good news about climate change:
One climate doomsday scenario can be downgraded, new research suggests.
Decades of atmospheric measurements from a site in northern Alaska show that rapidly rising temperatures there have not significantly increased methane emissions from the neighboring permafrost-covered landscape, researchers reported December 15 at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting.
Some scientists feared that Arctic warming would unleash large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, worsening global warming. "The ticking time bomb of methane has clearly not manifested itself yet," said study coauthor Colm Sweeney, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder. Emissions of carbon dioxide — a less potent greenhouse gas — did increase over that period, the researchers found.
Some have been concerned about a sudden, runaway spike in greenhouse gases owing to thawing methane clathrates in the ocean (the "Clathrate gun hypothesis") and in the permafrost.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @10:39PM
In the anime Ergo Proxy, a string of explosions in the methane hydrate reserves wipes out 85% of human life on Earth
Then the 15% indulged their hubris by creating not one but three slave races of laborers to rebuild the Earth, while the original humans went rocketing off into the musky freedom of outer space. Is it any wonder their creations rebelled when the 15% returned to reclaim the Earth?
(Score: 2) by Uncle_Al on Tuesday December 20 2016, @10:56PM
sniff, sniff..
does it smell like Musk out here?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @11:03PM
Musk has given up on space to become a mole-rat under the Earth.