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An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth’s low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) report in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684260ms115

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Worse Than Carbon Dioxide; 'Methane Chimneys' as Climate Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/23-0

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The Methane Time Bomb

Steve Conner, The Independent: "Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-methane-time-bomb



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