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Title: Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean
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Updated News
URL Source: http://updatednews.ca/2011/12/14/gi ... ng-to-surface-of-arctic-ocean/
Published: Dec 14, 2011
Author: Updated News
Post Date: 2011-12-17 12:06:12 by We The People
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Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change.
Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK’s Independent that the plumes of methane, a gas 20 times as harmful as carbon dioxide, have shocked scientists who have been studying the region for decades. “Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of meters in diameter,” he said. “This is the first time that we’ve found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures, more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It’s amazing.”
Semiletov said that while his research team has discovered more than 100 plumes, they estimate there to be “thousands” over the wider area, extending from the Russian mainland to the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
“In a very small area, less than 10,000 square miles, we have counted more than 100 fountains, or torch-like structures, bubbling through the water column and injected directly into the atmosphere from the seabed,” Semiletov said. “We carried out checks at about 115 stationary points and discovered methane fields of a fantastic scale — I think on a scale not seen before. Some plumes were a kilometer or more wide and the emissions went directly into the atmosphere — the concentration was a hundred times higher than normal.”
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That's it! We have to ban ocean floors!
#2. To: We The People (#1)
That's it! We have to ban ocean floors!
It demonstrates what simpletons the man-made global warming crowd really are.
#3. To: We The People (#1)
That's it! We have to ban ocean floors!
Maybe you should ban one of the possible causes...microorganisms.
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#4. To: We The People (#0)
Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change.
If the Leftards would just shut the hell up we wouldn't have Methane or C02 problems......
"CHANGE" you can step in..... 
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!! Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3..........
#5. To: mininggold (#3)
Maybe you should ban one of the possible causes...microorganisms.
Yep, so microorganisms fart and spew deadly gasses into the atmosphere and somehow we need to ban SUVs.
Just wait until another super volcano (like one under Wyoming) erupts and puts us into another decades long cooling period. I suppose the leftist simpletons will completely ban cars then, because obviously it's our fault.
Idiots...
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