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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: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 24 2020, @12:30AM (8 children)
What kind of gormless, weak-kneed, lily-livered inbred streak of piss do you have to be to be carrying this creepy obsessive hatred for a teenage girl on the other side of the planet? What's the matter, does she trigger you because she's correct?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by anubi on Friday July 24 2020, @01:13AM (1 child)
I think they are frustrated because they can't do anything to force her obedience.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @02:01AM
Do try to remember who, exactly, is trying to force obedience on who. Hint: as in "pushing for laws to be made to make everyone do X".
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @01:54AM (5 children)
You invented a great way to make friends and influence people; pile up enough stupid insults and they'll... what, exactly?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 24 2020, @03:01PM (3 children)
Shhhh! She's a pharmacy tech who hates Christians reflexively, so she must be really smart. Also, she's a lesbian so how dare you criticize her?! You are cancelled.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @07:17PM (1 child)
Being a lesbian has nothing to do with it, oh rebirth of the number of man. There are plenty of shitheaded lesbians out there who confuse biology for a political statement. Azuma is not one of those. Do you miss her criticism of Islam--when it comes up--because you get so triggered she dares question Mosaic Law?
Being a pharmacy tech makes her more valuable to society than any political hack like you.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:19AM
He did, yes. You nailed him on all points. Look at him, spitting childish venom, reduced to trying--and failing miserably--to win points with the lowest, least effective type of sarcasm there is.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:24AM
Hey, dipshit, I don't hate Christians (or Jews, or Muslims). I hate Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. You may have heard a certain saying that goes "Love the sinner, hate the sin?" :) The religion I have the most beef with, actually, isn't Christianity...it's Islam. Christianity at least had some good if unoriginal morals and a deep-rooted sense of economic and community equality. But all three Abrahamic faiths spring from the same poisoned root, and that root is that Yahweh, their God-figure, *is a fucking psychopath.* You don't even need to leave the book(s) of Genesis, let alone the Old Testament, to come to that conclusion.
And in light of my being a pharmacy worker, consider this analogy: when someone has a disease, the doctor prescribes them medicine *to correct the disease state.* Not to kill the patient. Again: hate the sinner, not the sin. My medicine is bitter, it burns as all truth does to the one who loves and makes and lives a lie, but it is effective.
Drop your whiny fucking persecution complex already. You're angry as hell at me pointing out that everything from your marriage to your parenting to your place of residence to your supposed social activism is hollow, hypocritical, self-serving, virtue-signalling *bullshit.* You are the "whited sepulchre" Jesus spoke of.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 25 2020, @01:27AM
You misunderstand...we are out of time. These people will not change. I am not trying to change them; I'm just pointing out in a very public and nasty way exactly what they are. I could not give the proverbial fetid pair of dingo's kidneys about being friends with or influencing these people.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...