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A team of researchers with Oregon State University has confirmed the first active leak of sea-bed methane in Antarctica. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their trip to Cinder Cones located at McMurdo Sound situated in the Ross Sea, and why they believe it signals very serious repercussions for global warming.
[...] The researchers note that the methane leak at the Cinder Cones is not in a part of the ocean that has been warming; thus, the reason for the leak is a mystery. Much more concerning is the reaction of undersea microbes. Prior research has shown that when other parts of the seafloor begin releasing methane, microbes move in and eat it, preventing it from making its way to the surface and into the atmosphere. Cinder Cones has been leaking for at least five years, they note, but as yet, methane-eating microbes have not moved in. Thus, the methane is almost certainly making its way into the atmosphere. The reason this is so concerning, they point out, is because it suggests that if other parts of the seafloor in Antarctica begin to seep methane due to warming, microbes may not move into the area quickly enough to prevent massive amounts of the gas from making its way into the atmosphere. They plan to continue monitoring seepage at Cinder Cones, noting that it could take as long as five more years for microbes to move in. But that research will have to wait, as the pandemic has put their plans on hold.
Are krill or penguins to blame?
Journal Reference:
Andrew R. Thurber, Sarah Seabrook, Rory M. Welsh. Riddles in the cold: Antarctic endemism and microbial succession impact methane cycling in the Southern Ocean, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1134)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @04:27PM (8 children)
Somewhat less pathetic than you have to be for licking the ground she walks upon.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 23 2020, @04:41PM (7 children)
Tough words from a manly man who can't handle a teenage girl with opinions.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @04:50PM (1 child)
Yawn... snowflake is getting boring.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @04:55PM
Brave AC has me quaking in my boots!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 23 2020, @07:46PM (2 children)
They are not her "opinions". They were planted there by advertisers. Her parents needed the money
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @07:04PM (1 child)
And your opinions were planted in your head by the ruling class. They are not in your best interest.
In fact, the ideas that I'm guessing you bristle at--tiny green houses and Malthusian dilemma--are also promoted by the ruling class, so that you will, out of reactionary political disorientation, excuse their greedy, selfish, insane drive to make the planet hostile to human life.
But they throw you table scraps every now and then, and if those don't satisfy, they have you trained to bark at immigrants when they move capital away. When that happens, you're sitting in a bunker here behind your wall, unable to follow the movement of capital.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @11:25PM
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes
And there's no such thing as make-believe
Puppy dogs, autumn leaves 'n' BB guns
(Score: 1, Disagree) by anubi on Friday July 24 2020, @01:04AM
No one can.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Friday July 24 2020, @10:26PM
I can't speak for the coward, but for me it's not a problem with a teenager with opinions as much as all the adults who then held her up as some kind of authority. The whole thing left me feeling embarrassed for everyone involved.