Factoid/2008/12/24
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Negative Feedback Loop with Rising Temperatures Releasing Methane Plumes
- "This September Russian and British Scientists found methane plumes bubbling up to the surface of exposed Arctic waters. For some time scientists have worried about positive feedback loops in which our actions promote a series of irreversible natural actions increasing the rate of global warming. One focus has been on the gassing off of methane from frozen peat as arctic tundra melts. Methane is twenty times as powerful as carbon dioxide when it comes to heating up the atmosphere." - excerpt from the newsletter Blue Note #53 by the Blue Frontier Campaign.
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