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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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#6. To: robin (#0)
Since the methane is emitted from the ocean floor, much work would need to be done to prove a causal connection between surface or atmosphere temperatures and deep ocean temperatures, not to mention shallow crust temperatures. Incidentally, Philip Gold's "The Deep Hot Biosphere" discsses methane emissions at length. According to this theories, diamonds are the result of methane emissions, hydrocarbons in general are primordial (not the result of the decomposition of flora or fauna), and life probably evolved from the extremophiles that subsist upon methane emissions.
Very probably "Thomas Gold".
#8. To: tom007 (#7)
Thomas it was. Bet you can't put the book down.
Whale flatulance
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#7. To: leveller (#6)
Philip Gold's "The Deep Hot Biosphere" di
Replies to Comment # 7. Philip Gold's "The Deep Hot Biosphere" di Very probably "Thomas Gold".
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End Trace Mode for Comment # 7.