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Re: [OM] OT: Clathrates

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Clathrates
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:08:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
> >      Climatologists have been deeply concerened with the clathrates in the 
> > continental shelf off the
> > US eastern seaboard.  If the temperature of the Gulf Stream rises another 
> > 2C, a tremendous amount of
> > methane could be released into the atmosphere, which would accelerate the 
> > rate of atmospheric
> > warming due to greenhouse gases, and methane is far more damaging than 
> > carbon dioxide.
>
> Well, it wouldn't be so good for the boats either.
>

     Makes you wonder about the Bermuda Triangle as the Sargaso Sea is nearby.  
The Sargaso seaweed that dies sinks to the ocean bottom, where it will decay 
under intense pressure and produce the same strata of frozen methane.  A large 
bubble of that methane rising to the surface and then into the atmosphere could 
easily be ignited under the right circumstances, such as an airplane flying 
through it a low altitude where the concentration would be highest.


Chris
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