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Title: The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about.
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Published: Jan 8, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-01-08 21:43:49 by robin
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January 8, 2007 -- The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about. According to U.S. maritime industry sources, tanker captains are reporting an increase in onboard alarms from hazard sensors designed to detect hydrocarbon gas leaks and, specifically, methane leaks. However, the leaks are not emanating from cargo holds or pump rooms but from continental shelves venting increasing amounts of trapped methane into the atmosphere. With rising ocean temperatures, methane is increasingly escaping from deep ocean floors. Methane is also 21 more times capable of trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. In fact, one of the major sources for increased methane venting is the Hudson Submarine Canyon, which extends 400 miles into the Atlantic from the New York-New Jersey harbor. Another location experiencing increased venting is the Santa Barbara Channel on the California coast. Fuel tankers reporting increased methane venting from sea beds. Meanwhile, a strong natural gas odor was reported this morning in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Weehawken, and Newark. The strong odor was also detected in Union City, Secaucus, and Hoboken. Last August, a similar unexplained gas odor sent people to the hospital in Staten Island and Queens. Although methane is odorless, natural methane venting is often accompanied by the venting of acrid hydrogen sulfide, a byproduct of bacterial decomposition. The US Coast Guard sent a message to ships and tugs in the bay and ocean south of New York requesting any reports of the odor being detected at sea. There were also an unconfirmed report of a similar strong odor being detected this morning on the Delaware coast near Lewes. This morning, the prevailing winds in New York and New Jersey were southerly at 5 to 10 miles per hour. In other global warming news, the warm temperatures on the U.S. East Coast are resulting in early blooming of the cherry trees and azaleas in Washington, DC and New York City, apple and peach trees in Maryland, and roses, forsythias, and crocuses in Connecticut. A number of people along the East Coast are suffering from allergies usually experienced in April. Monk parakeets from South America have invaded the Chicago area. George W. Bush continues to insist that global warming is "silly science" based on "fuzzy math." Corporate news media masters are pressuring plastic-faced and neatly-coiffured TV weathermen to treat the current abnormal warm weather as an unexpected "gift" for their viewers. The latte-sipping and SUV-driving yuppies in Washington, DC are certainly taking the current weather abnormality in stride -- they almost appear ecstatic about the weather, obviously unaware that the future of our planet is hanging on a thread.
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#1. To: Destro (#0)
global warming ping
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus
After reading about the smell in NY today my guess was that it was indeed a natural leak of methane mixed with hydrogen sulfide. That's pretty strange about the early bloomings along the east coast. when I was a little kid in the DC area there was still snow on the ground in March, and my brothers would build snow forts and we'd all go sledding. Sounds like those days are gone.
There are ice core sample studies that show the levels of CO2 and corresponding temperatures have never been this high, and the rate of increase continues. The polar icecaps, Greenland, and antarctica are losing so much ice our sea levels could increase 20 feet worldwide which would cause many cities to become submerged. The normal weather patterns are being disrupted. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is a film really worth seeing. If you can't stand the sight of him, there's plenty of info online.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus
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