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Title: methane bubbling up from the ocean floors
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Published: Jan 18, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-01-18 23:11:11 by robin
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January 18, 2007 -- WMR received a number of e-mails as a result of our Jan. 8 piece on methane bubbling up from the ocean floors. The ocean floor methane is turning into gaseous from methane hydrate ice form because the deep ocean is warming as a result of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. A reader in Minnesota sent us this important amplifying information: "Methane bubbling up from the ocean floor is a clear and present danger to shipping and even aviation. By the way, there is something like 10,000 billion tons of methane under the sea in methane hydrate deposits. Furthermore, a theory called the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" or the "Hydrate hypothesis," posits that melting methane hydrate has cause severe episodes of runaway global warming in the past. We are sitting on a bomb. Mankind's emission are the fuse, melting permafrost is the detonator, and melting oceanic methane hydrate is the bomb. Since mankind's emissions is a much larger trigger than past severe episodes, the current unfolding episode of runaway global warming will occur much more rapidly, and therefore be much, much more severe."
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Sorry folks, but this isn't anything new. Solar Activity is at an all time high, and we're seeing the repercussions of that fact. For people to say it's all Global Warming, and that it's all human made, give it a couple more years. After 2012, we should see a RAPID decline in temps, all because the solar cycle will have shifted again.
#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
Sorry Tommy, but the stats are new, nothing to do with solar flares...(but I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would love for you to believe that). Ice core samples do not lie like Limbaugh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
I'm not capable of proving whether or not global warming is a man-maade problem or not, but let me offer an observation. Pollution probably peaked in the early 1970's, as far as the US and W. Europe anyway. There used to be a lot more snow. It would start snowing about Thanksgiving and the would be snow on the ground until March or so. I think global warming is caused by charging exhorbitant insurance rates on muscle cars.
Someone who understands! That's why there's global warming on Mars. Once the Sun calms down (and it will) it'll get cold again. We've got very, very little to do with it, and there is little we can do about it.
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#9. To: TommyTheMadArtist, robin (#1)
#15. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)
Solar Activity is at an all time high
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