Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change
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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=methane
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permafrost
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ice+sheet
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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=methane
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permafrost
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ice+sheet
rudkla - 24. Aug, 08:40
