Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Increased Methane Release from Oceans on the Horizon?

The last two times the Earth warmed considerably and put glaciers on the run, huge plumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane bubbled out of the ocean off the California coast.

An international team of researchers say they think they know why. If they're right, manmade greenhouse warming could unleash fresh plumes of seabed methane along the North American and European coasts that could make the planet warmer still and speed the acidification of the oceans..........

InsideBayArea.com

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